Book · 2020 · Aggressiveness
The Goodness Paradox
How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
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Second one is outside of my discipline and it's the goodness Paradox by Richard rangam that gets at the question of why humans can be so good to each other but also can be so bad and when we're bad we plan it meticulously and execute it over a long period of time um rather than just do it spontaneously.
What they say about it
- Relationship between violence and virtue“relationship between violence and virtue”2
The best things said about it
The Goodness Paradox that relates strange relationship between violence and virtue in human evolution.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · May 2022 He wrote a great book called The Goodness Paradox.
There was a recent book uh by the harvard anthropologist i think he's anthropologist richard wrangham the goodness paradox and that whole book is about this idea of basically capital punishment.
Where and when it comes up
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5 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham is an evolutionary biology book that investigates the complex relationship between human kindness and meticulously planned violence. On The Ezra Klein Show, Jason Ferman recommended the book for its exploration of why humans are capable of both profound cooperation and calculated cruelty. Isabel Behncke similarly recommended the text on The Tim Ferriss Show while discussing primate behavior and the evolutionary origins of human conflict. Jordan Peterson highlighted the book on his podcast during a recap of an interview with the author, emphasizing its insights into self-domestication and the strange evolutionary link between virtue and violence. Rob Henderson also brought up the book across multiple podcast appearances, including Modern Wisdom, referencing the author's anthropological arguments regarding early capital punishment and human aggression. Lex Fridman discussed the core themes of the book directly with the author on the Lex Fridman Podcast, exploring the primary mechanisms behind human self-domestication. Across these discussions, the speakers underscored the book's significance in shedding light on the dual nature of human behavior, blending anthropological data with evolutionary theory to explain how humanity became simultaneously the most cooperative and most destructive species on Earth.
Every mention
Jordan Peterson and then the goodness paradox that relates strange relationship between violence and virtue in human evolution 2
“and then more recently the goodness paradox the strange relationship between virtue and violence and human evolution which was published in 2019”
“and then the goodness paradox that relates strange relationship between violence and virtue in human evolution”
Isabel Behncke his last book is called the goodness paradox 1
“his last book is called the goodness paradox”
Jason Ferman second one is outside of my discipline and it's the goodness Paradox by Richard rangam that gets at the que… 1
“second one is outside of my discipline and it's the goodness Paradox by Richard rangam that gets at the question of why humans can be so good to each other but also can be so bad and when we're bad we plan it meticulously and execute it over a long period of time um rather than just do it spontaneously”
Rob Henderson yeah yeah I wrote about that when I was discussing uh Richard rangham's book he's the the Harvard evolution… 2
“yeah yeah I wrote about that when I was discussing uh Richard rangham's book he's the the Harvard evolutionary biologist he wrote a great book called the goodness Paradox”
“there was a recent book uh by the harvard anthropologist i think he's anthropologist richard wrangham the goodness paradox and that whole book is about this idea of basically capital punishment”
Lex Fridman What is your book titled Goodness Paradox? What are the main ideas in this book? 1
“What is your book titled Goodness Paradox? What are the main ideas in this book?”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“um well I I studied chimpanzees and we have a a website called kibali chimpanzee project k-i-b-a-l-e kibali chimpanzee project and look up the goodness Paradox”