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#81 - The Invention of Good and Evil | Hanno Sauer
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- The Ethical Frontier
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- Dec 9, 2025
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- 4508
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Summary
You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Hanno Sauer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University. Website: https://www.hannosauer.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Good-Evil-History-Morality/dp/0197790259 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Sauer's book on the invention of good and evil. Essentially, the book offers a new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values. With philosophical expertise and empirical data, Sauer explains how processes of biological, cultural, social, and historical evolution shaped the moral grammar that defines our present.