Humankind: A Hopeful History

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Taschenbuch
5.08

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Beschreibung

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.Humankind makes a new that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too.In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think – and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society.It is time for a new view of human nature.
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5

Ein wundervolles Buch, dass viele Beweise dafür liefert dass die Menschen nicht so schlecht sind, wie man oft vermutet. Unglaublich interessant und mit vielen, vielen interessanten Erzählungen aus der Geschichte!

5

Horizonterweiterung

In diesem Buch versucht der Autor Hinweise dafür zu finden, daß der Grundcharakterzug des Menschen letztlich "Gut sein" ist. Immer wieder gelingen überraschende Entdeckungen. Besonders im Gedächtnis geblieben sind mir die Untersuchungen Bregmans der Primärliteratur und Dokumentation des bekannten Stanford Prison Experiments. Vollumfängliche Empfehlung! Das Buch ist zwar thematisch anders aber lässt sich vom Ansatz mit Hans Roslings "Factfulness" vergleichen. Das war mit Sicherheit nicht meine letzte Bregman Lektüre...

5

Way interesting. On my journey through mind-expanding books I first encountered Utopia for Realists of the same author that impressed me deeply, and after reading Factfulness this seemed the logical next installation to teach me what a realistic model of the human condition might be. This book is only 4½ stars but is still great. Main message: Our image of the evil nature of man is deeply wrong and in researching many of the experiments that led to this corrupted image we can find man's real nature: a well-intended creature with a (basically) good heart. If we treat people by this positive image, many advantages will reveal.

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