Simon and Schuster Canada sent me this review copy of The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer near the beginning of the summer and I have been working my way slowly through it since. This is not to say I have been trudging my way through, more that there is a whole lot going on here to take in and ruminate on.

The book jacket compares this book to Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and I feel it is a very accurate comparison in terms of the immense scope of the material that is here.

The authour has taken on an extremely ambitious and daunting task; to tackle the orgins and evolution of the human experience of good and evil, the how and why of human morality, starting right at the beginning with our earliest ancestors in East Africa, right up to present day. He then ends with a summary of the moral crisis we face as a society today.

This isn’t light summer reading by any means, but it is fascinating, and the authour has done a beautiful job of taking this immense subject matter and making it accessible for the general population.

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