History
Rutger Bregman
The Two Faces of Humanity
The fictitious concept of humans as evil.
From Hobbes' Leviathan to Dawkins’ Selfish Genes, true human nature as revealed by world-renowned historian Rutger Bregman.
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 11 Lessons ㆍ 1 hours 46 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English, 简体中文, Spanish, French
Disproving the idea of human selfishness.
Are humans good or evil? Humanity has been grappling with this question for centuries. Many throughout history have suggested that humans are inherently selfish. However, 34-year-old historian Rutger Bregman takes on a different view of human nature. Bregman says that humans are intrinsically good and are able to cooperate and achieve solidarity through that nature.
Bregman combs through the documents of early literature and experiments that define human nature as selfish and upends the misguided notions that we’ve never questioned. He says that authorities and the press have been concealing humanity’s goodness, pointing out how deeply internalized the negative perspective toward human nature is. He explains to us how humankind’s self-domestication, survival of the friendliest, and the Bastoy prison, which houses brutal criminals but has the lowest recidivism rate in the world, can show us the basic good in humanity. Bregman also suggests that we must establish a new perspective on this topic in order to have a better future. The eleven lectures of Two Faces of Humanity give us a new perspective on human nature.
Full Bio
Rutger Bregman
- Dutch historian
- Author of Humankind: A Hopeful History (2019)
- Author of Utopia for Realists (2014)
- Sold 1 million copies around the world, translated into and published in 40 languages
- On the Amazon and New York Times best-seller list
- One of Forbes’ five books that show why "the future is bright"
- Winner of Belgium’s most eminent non-fiction award (2013)
- One of Big Issue’s Top 100 Changemakers of 2020
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian who studied history at the prestigious Utrecht University and UCLA. He was formerly a journalist, and he received much praise for his lecture in which he criticized the tax evasion of the rich who attended the Davos Forum with his vast knowledge, sound logic, and rhetorical eloquence.
He was awarded the highest prize for a non-fiction book in Belgium in 2013 for his book, The History of Progress. Humankind, published in 2019, was translated into and published in 40 languages, selling 1 million copies around the world, and it earned Bregman the praise of intellectuals around the world, such as Yuval Harari, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink. Bregman, one of Big Issue’s Top 100 Changemakers of 2020, is now writing a book about the story of people who were on the right side of history.
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