Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings—largely overlooked—from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end.The book is published by Oxford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Everyone should read this book... so together we can re-envision our future!" (Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame)"Essential and transformative reading for every policymaker, philanthropist, activist, and change-maker interested in a more just, balanced, and peaceful world." (Jennifer Buffett, co-president, NoVo Foundation)"This path-breaking book goes beyond the conventional divides hurting today's civilizations." (Ernst von Weizsäcker, honorary president, Club of Rome) Read more