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The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code

The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code

McCullough, Michael E.
Wright, Braden

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PhilosophySports GeneralGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 1713523701
ISBN13: 9781713523703
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: Oct 27 2020
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 6.70
Language: English

A fine achievement.--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do

A sweeping psychological history of human goodness -- from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity is now facing.

How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael E. McCullough shows why they have failed and offers a new explanation instead. From the moment nomadic humans first settled down until the aftermath of the Second World War, our species has confronted repeated crises that we could only survive by changing our behavior. As McCullough argues, these choices weren't enabled by an evolved moral sense, but with moral invention -- driven not by evolution's dictates but by reason.

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