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[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Better Angels of Our Nature, Rigt From Lincoln

The better angels of our nature, rigt from lincoln. And that is a phrase that you can throw into any conversation, n any speech. It's like, these things are so obvious and taken for granted, am, but it harms us that we don't take them as seriously as we do. Ah, what is dark and evil and destructive, you know? But i think stephen argues correctly, in my view, that beginning around three hundred years ago, a with the technological advances of the enlightenment,. The philosophical moves in the enlightenment committed to the equality of all human beings. They started a at clar historical moment in europe and spread around the world, and spread around the

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