# #81 - The Invention of Good and Evil | Hanno Sauer

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Podcast: [The Ethical Frontier](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ethical-frontier-6723630)
Published: 2025-12-09T13:25:07+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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