Episode
How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)
EconTalk · Mar 9, 2026 · 1 h 14 min
What if humanity's capacity for cruelty was actually one of our greatest moral achievements? That's just one of the provocative ideas philosopher Hanno Sauer explores in this conversation about his book The Invention of Good and Evil with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Sauer tackles a fundamental puzzle: in a Darwinian world of selfish genes, how did humans become so extraordinarily cooperative? Sauer…