It is beautifully written and translated (from Bregman’s native Dutch) clearly and cogently argued in a way that artfully and colloquially disguises the highly creative, heavy-duty thinking that went into its composition chock full of concrete historical examples and contemporary references, and other cases-in-point and above all, it is philosophically game-changing, existentially and morally life-changing, and socially and politically world-changing.įirst, human nature is substantially better than massively most people think it is, even though, as “human, all too human,” we are still infinitely far from being angelic, ideally rational, or morally perfect, and indeed we are built out of what Immanuel Kant so aptly called “the crooked timber of humanity, nothing straight can ever be made.” Rutger Bregman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History is a brilliant book.
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