The human race: a future full of hope

Author's name: Rutger Briegman Publisher: Dar Al Tanweer for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary classification: Human Development and Self-Improvement Book overview: If there is a common belief among the opposing sides of psychologists, philosophers, and thinkers, both ancient and modern, it is the implicit assumption that humans are inherently evil. It is a concept that has occupied newspaper headlines and on which laws governing our lives are based: from Machiavelli to Hobbes, from Freud to Pinker, the roots of this belief are deeply planted in Western thought. We have been taught that as members of the human race, we are naturally selfish and governed by primal instincts. But what if this assumption is not correct? Author Rutger Briegman offers us a perspective on human history from 200,000 years ago, providing evidence that we are good, inclined toward cooperation rather than competition, and have an innate tendency to trust each other, and that the basis of this inclination dates back to the existence of Homo sapiens.