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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- De: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrado por: Mark Williams
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,925
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,449
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,438
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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exactly what I've been looking for
- De DankTurtle en 11-10-21
- The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- De: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrado por: Mark Williams
Jason’s comments are intentionally misleading
Revisado: 01-25-23
For whatever reason, the app is privileging a particularly negative assessment as the top review, which blatantly mischaracterizes the two arguments in the book it takes issue with.
The first is that, according to Jason, Graeber and Wengrow basically admit that the book is “speculation” when they open the book. This is an embarrassingly half-hazard reading of the intro. They simply report that the abandonment of the outdated “historical evolution” model by the field of anthropology presents a conundrum, because bringing together a body of knowledge about the variegate histories of human societies into a succinct book approachable by a wider audience is difficult to do without any sort of throughline connecting them. This creates a gulf between public understand and academic understanding, and many academics don’t want to step on toes by giving poor presentations of others’ work. Their project is to try and bridge that gap.
Jason also takes issue with the authors’ treatment of Harrari, where he claims that the authors are apparently unaware humans are apes. What they actually take issue with is the way that Harrari uses incredibly reductive language where he implies that hunter gatherers specifically are *more ape-like than other humans.* They call that racist… because it is racist. The extent to which people are apes is equivalent for all human beings, so to specifically employ that language to describe the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers is invalid precisely FOR the evolutionary reasons Jason brings up. Further, Jason takes issue with the “interchangeable” use of “ape” and “monkey.” I know your third grade teacher told you apes aren’t monkeys, but that was probably outdated phylogenetically even when you learned that. Either “monkey” is monophyletic or it has no valid scientific meaning anyway, imho.
Nobody has to like the book. There are plenty of arguments in the book I have criticisms of. Some are downright bad. People mischaracterizing the book aren’t doing anyone favors.
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The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
- Essay on the Freedom of the Will, the Basis of Morality
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
The essays in The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics have a rather special place in Schopenhauer’s work, both being written as entries to Scandinavian philosophy competitions, one in Norway and one in Sweden.
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1 out of 5 stars
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FIX RECORDING
- De Anonymous User en 01-05-23
- The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
- Essay on the Freedom of the Will, the Basis of Morality
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
Only plays from one side
Revisado: 12-18-22
This is incredibly annoying for me. If it isn’t for you then it’ll be fine haha
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