Cazadores, campesinos y carbón

After the success of Why the West Rules... for Now?, Ian Morris tackles the ambitious task of explaining the evolution of the values of human societies from prehistory to the present. This is a provocative book that explains where they come from and how and why our moral codes have evolved throughout history. Morris establishes a direct relationship between the method of capturing energy of a society and the moral values that it generates. In an original proposal, the book includes chapters written by critics of Morris's thesis: the historian Richard Seaford, the sinologist Jonathan D. Spence, the philosopher Christine M. Korsgaard and the writer Margaret Atwood. Morris responds to his arguments in an intelligent and incisive way, offering the reader a lively and enriching dialogue, far removed from all academicism.