Please join us to share and explore humanist perspectives on Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A hopeful history.

February's book is Humankind by Rutger Bregman.

We will meet in Room Bee 1 in Beeston Library to discuss the book. Please come along even if you haven't read it: it's an occasion to discuss humanist issues and meet other people interested in humanism.

Description:

Humankind argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings. It argues against ideas of humankind's essential egotism and malevolence. The book engages in a multidisciplinary study of historical events, an examination of scientific studies, and philosophical argumentation in order to advance Bregman's opinion that this outlook is more realistic compared to its negative counterpart.

The book for the following meeting will be: Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell. The book was the subject of her 2023 Rosalind Franklin Lecture for Humanists UK.