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Integrating Ancient Wisdom & Modern Science To Create A Meaningful Life - Jeremy Lent

The Weekend University

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How Should I Live?

The dominant culture is pretty clear about that, right? It tells us that humans are intrinsically selfish and greedy. We need to understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. But actually, what we now understand from evolutionary biology and cognitive anthropology is that humans evolved to be cooperative. And over millions of years, human identity expanded from self and kin to include the entire group.

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