Human Kindness

The Wellness Scoop

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Why should we believe in human goodness? Today we’re exploring the power of human kindness and why the theory that most people are governed by self-interest is possibly totally inaccurate. Our guest Rutger Bregman instead argues that history shows we are fundamentally altruistic and kind, it’s a refreshing, optimistic view of the world that we hope will give you a little hope. Books Rutger Bregman, Humankind Hans Rosling, Factfulness – the book on why the world is getting better A link to an article detailing more about the real Lord of the Flies: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.0	Hi and welcome to the deliciously Ella podcast with me, Ella Melves. So we are often told that
1:27.8	human beings are by nature selfish beings and that we're all too often governed by self-interest.
1:33.8	It's a belief that has seemingly sunk into Western thought and has been supported by the left
1:38.7	and the right by psychologists and philosophers from Freud to Machiavelli, writers and historians.
1:44.4	But last but not least, it's such a pressing way of looking at the world. So when the book that
1:49.4	today's episode is based on Lange on my desk, I was pretty excited about it and I knew that we
1:53.7	needed to get the author on the podcast ASAP. So Rutger Breggman wants to change this narrative and
2:00.4	he wants to give us a new and let's be honest, much needed perspective. Through a look at 200,000
2:06.0	years of human history, Rutger is here to put forward a refreshing new argument on human nature
2:11.6	that we should assume people are good. He believes there is real evidence to fundamentally believe
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