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人慈: 橫跨二十萬年的人性旅程, 用更好的視角看待自己

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內容簡介 「本書刷新了我對人性的長久信念。」——《人類大歷史》作者97%的人認為，人性自私又貪婪，但當危機來襲，我們展現的是人類最好的本質。——世界遠比我們想像的美好，真正的威脅，是我們對於自己太悲觀二次大戰期間，德軍試圖用轟炸瓦解英國人的抵抗意志，他們認為，一旦恐慌與暴力蔓延開來，人類便會顯露低劣的本性。然而，德軍的劇本並沒有上演。接著，英軍採用同樣的轟炸戰略回敬德軍，他們認為，在轟炸之下展現的韌性，是英國人獨有的美德，德國人連他們挨過的一半都挨不住。英軍的盤算也落空了。事實上，不只德、英雙方對人性有如此悲觀的看法，而是高達97%的人皆然。但眾多的歷史事件證明：當危機來襲——不論是炸彈落下或洪水成災，我們展現的都是人類最好的本質。是時候，換個視角來看待自己了。——如果你曾對人類感到灰心，這本書將為人性的光明扳回一城有太多以性惡為題的研究與著作，贏得喝采且歷久不衰。還有那一道我們無法視而不見的歷史傷口：人類可是唯一能打造出集中營的物種啊。到了近代，更加上新聞、社群媒體的推波助瀾，人性醜惡似乎成了我們洗刷不掉的烙印。然而，人類如果真的嗜血好戰，為何在戰爭中造成最大傷亡的，都不是於前線奮戰的士兵；而是遠離前線、不會與敵人面對面的那一小批人？人類如果真的難以教化，為何挪威將重刑犯送進宛如度假村的監獄，反而造就世界最低的再犯率？羅格將在書中以扎實的論證、生動的敘事，一一為我們平反。．我們在五萬年前有五種人族兄弟，今日卻只有我們倖存，《人類大歷史》作者推測，是因為我們比較狠：｢當智人遇上尼安德塔人，造成史上第一場也是最大一場的種族清洗行動。｣賈德．戴蒙也贊同：｢間接的證據判定智人謀殺有罪。｣但羅格認為，是智人的其他特質占了上風。．賈德．戴蒙在《大崩壞》中推論，復活節島島民因資源不足而相殘，甚至以人為食，是以殘酷自私的人性為導火線。但新的人口證據卻有截然不同的解釋。．《蒼蠅王》作者獲頒諾貝爾獎，被盛讚為「生動刻畫了真實人性」；但是當虛構小說在現實中上演，流落荒島的小男孩卻建立起井然有序的小型社會，為了求救，輪流看顧營火不滅。．以揭露性惡留名的史丹佛監獄實驗，充當獄卒的學生其實是受實驗人員擺布；而旁觀者效應的犧牲者吉諾維斯，並沒有死於38位路人的冷眼旁觀，而是在朋友的懷抱中離世。——人類的每一次大躍進，都發生在我們對自己有了新認識的時候本中文書介出自《人慈: 橫跨二十萬年的人性旅程, 用更好的視角看待自己》時報文化出版企業股份有限公司出版THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended'Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race'Tim Harford'The book we need right now'Daily Telegraph'Made me see humanity from a fresh perspective'Yuval Noah HarariIt's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too.In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think – and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society.It is time for a new view of human nature."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Rutger BregmanRutger Bregman, a historian and writer at the Correspondent, is one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers. His last book, Utopia for Realists, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Holland. @rcbregman | rutgerbregman.com

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