https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/tags/book-review/Recent content in Book Review on Philosophie-DelorHugoenFrieder DelorSun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/critics/sauer_moral/Sun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/critics/sauer_moral/<h2 id="the-invention-of-good-and-evil-a-world-history-of-morality--how-professor-hanno-sauer-arrives-at-wishful-morality-through-fallacies">The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality – How Professor Hanno Sauer Arrives at Wishful Morality Through Fallacies<a class="anchor" href="#the-invention-of-good-and-evil-a-world-history-of-morality--how-professor-hanno-sauer-arrives-at-wishful-morality-through-fallacies" aria-label="Link"></a></h2> <p>Professor Hanno Sauer (2024), in his book <em>The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality</em>, claims to reconstruct the emergence of morality from evolution, cooperation, and culture in a scientific manner. He promises an objective derivation of how sanctions and norms made us what we are today. The book does not redeem this claim at any point. Instead of an open-ended reconstruction, Sauer engages in extensive cherry-picking among findings and theories in order to support a specific left-progressive moral philosophy. Whatever fits his worldview is elaborated at length; whatever contradicts it is ignored or pushed into psychology.</p>