The Invention of Good and Evil - Sauer, Hanno
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"We humans were born to cooperate, but everywhere we find ourselves in conflict. The way we live together has changed fundamentally in recent decades: global mobility, demographic upheaval, migration movements, and digital networking, have all called the moral foundations of human communities into question. Modern societies are in crisis: a shared universal morality seems to be a thing of the past. Hanno Sauer explains why this appearance is deceptive: in fact, there are universal values that all people share. If we understand the origin of our morality, we can understand its future too. With…mehr

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"We humans were born to cooperate, but everywhere we find ourselves in conflict. The way we live together has changed fundamentally in recent decades: global mobility, demographic upheaval, migration movements, and digital networking, have all called the moral foundations of human communities into question. Modern societies are in crisis: a shared universal morality seems to be a thing of the past. Hanno Sauer explains why this appearance is deceptive: in fact, there are universal values that all people share. If we understand the origin of our morality, we can understand its future too. With philosophical expertise and empirical data, Sauer explains how processes of biological, cultural, social, and historical evolution shaped the moral grammar that defines our present. Seven chapters recount the crucial moral upheavals of human history showing how the emergence of humankind five million years ago, the rise of first civilizations 5,000 years ago, and the dynamics of moral progress in the last fifty years are interrelated. This genealogical perspective allows us, on the one hand, to see the contradictions and potential conflicts of our moral identities; on the other, it makes clear that we share fundamental values that apply to all human beings at all times. Sauer's elegant prose, translated into English by Jo Heinrich, brings the history of humanity to vivid new life."--
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Autorenporträt
Hanno Sauer is a philosopher and writer who teaches ethics at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He has written numerous academic articles and monographs and has given talks in various countries in Europe and North America. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Early Career Researchers (2020), European Research Commission Starting Grant (2019). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality was shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Award (2023), the Tractatus Prize for the best philosophical essay 2023, and became a DER SPIEGEL Bestseller. It is currently being translated into 16 languages and will appear in more than 20 countries.