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The Paradox of Virtue: The Strange History of the Relationship between Morality and Violence in Human Evolution – Wrangham Richard – IS – 2022 – ISBN 978-5-17-119869-5

The Paradox of Virtue: The Strange History of the Relationship between Morality and Violence in Human Evolution
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The Paradox of Virtue: The Strange History of the Relationship between Morality and Violence in Human Evolution
29.99 €
How is it that you can lock two hundred people in one airplane and not be afraid of a mob rioting? Homo sapiens as a species is remarkably peaceful. But then how do we explain the atrocities, torture, genocides and wars that humans are capable of? Richard Rangam calls this the "paradox of virtue." In his book, he summarizes the results of biological, anthropological, and psychological research to try to answer the question of why humans display such a strange combination of complete peacefulness in normal social interaction and a willingness to kill in other circumstances. Traditionally, two extreme views have dominated such debates: we are naturally good but subject to the pernicious influences of society, or we are naturally evil but constrained by the laws of the civilized world. Rangam boldly goes where few have gone before him and proves that this argument is meaningless, for we are both.
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