The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer audiobook review

The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer | Free Audiobook

By Hanno Sauer

Narrated by Callum Coates

🎧 12 hours and 44 minutes 📘 Profile Audio 📅 September 12, 2024 🌐 English

About This Audiobook

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’, and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs.

Morality is often associated with restraint and coercion; restriction and sacrifice; inquisition, confession and a guilty conscience. Joyless and claustrophobic, it is a device used to shames us into compliance. This impression is not entirely incorrect, but it is certainly incomplete.

Using our past as a basis for a new understanding of our future, Hanno Sauer traces humanity’s fundamental moral transformations from our earliest ancestors through to the present day, when it seems we have never disagreed more over what it means to be good. Our current political disagreements may feel like the end of the world, but where will the evolution of morality take us next?

Our Review of The Invention of Good and Evil

The Invention of Good and Evil brings history to life in a way that textbooks never could. Hanno Sauer weaves facts and narrative into a compelling story that keeps you hooked. The audiobook format makes it feel like a conversation with a brilliant historian.

Why Listen to The Invention of Good and Evil as an Audiobook?

History audiobooks are perfect for learning on the go. Callum Coates delivers a stellar narration that brings the story to life. At 12 hours and 44 minutes, it is the perfect length to fully immerse yourself. The narration brings past events to life with clarity and drama.

What You Will Discover

Hanno Sauer illuminates a fascinating period of history. For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’,… An audiobook that makes the past come alive.

Who Is This Audiobook For?

History buffs and curious minds will be captivated by The Invention of Good and Evil. Fans of Hanno Sauer and narrative nonfiction, this is essential listening.

What Listeners Are Saying

★★★★★

Want to blow your mind? Read this.

I was drawn to this book after reading some historical moral philosophy, like Cicero and Marcus Aurelius. Some of the arguments and conclusions in this book are difficult to deny, and at the same time require a reassessment of personal beliefs. It provides an evolutionary perspective of genetic self selection…

– E&J

★★★★☆

Interesting, flawed perspective

The author has interesting insights, but loses sight of the individual as the unit of freedom. He tries to balance his bias, but it’s clear that he accepts virtually all progressive tropes.

– occasional reviewer

★★☆☆☆

It's just bad – don't waste your time

If you were (as I was) expecting more in the vein of Joseph Henrich's _Secret of Our Success_ and Robert Axelrod's _Evolution of Cooperation_ (both brilliant; the latter work since considerably extended by Harvard's Martin Nowak), stop expecting.First, Sauer is a poor writer – he's long-winded and blathery. He takes…

– Dave Lindbergh

★★★★★

악의 근원을 알고 생활에서 선을 가까이 하는 습관을 들여야 함.

Now I am starting to read the beginning of the book.To me it is difficult to comprehendo the context of theory.But I clearly perceived that we need costs to direct toward the altruism.

– pablo choi

★★★★★