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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels - How Human Values Evolve (Hardcover, Rev Ed)
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels - How Human Values Evolve (Hardcover, Rev Ed)
Series: The University Center for Human Values Series
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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality
are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most
people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth
century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology,
anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why.
Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven
by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three
main ways to get the energy they need--from foraging, farming, and
fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds
of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific
values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open
societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our
most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful
any more. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling
new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has
far-reaching implications for how we understand the past--and for
what might happen next. Originating as the Tanner Lectures
delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging
responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China
Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist
Margaret Atwood.
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