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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Sermon of the Mount

The book is about arguing that human nature is a much more benevolent nature than we're often led to believe. The idea that what you're simply saying is, this is how humans have always been, and there's a crust put on top of us that keeps us from seeing it. And I think that is the radical message that you find in New Testament. That may sound completely counterintuitive, but it can actually get you some really good results.

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