Andrea Wulf
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625 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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He says every society has good people.
and evil.
The world is not neatly divided into virtuous and immoral, quite the opposite.
It's this kind of complex tapestry of the many shades of human lives and experiences.
And that, you know, it's a highly unusual attitude and
completely different to most people.
And I think also proof that we tend to say that in the 18th century, it was kind of inevitable to be racist.
That's just the way people were.
And I think his life really proves that it was a choice even back then.
It is not an unavoidable way to see the world.
And so I became interested in
How is it possible that this young man thinks so differently?
He does not talk about the indigenous people as half humans or half monkeys, half human.
He sees them as...
People, humans who have their own kind of value system and cultural norms.
And he said, you know, I am not going to use European norms or morals to judge them.
Vice and virtue are relative concepts, he says.
And and I think.
There are many reasons for this, but I think one reason is that he was still very, very young.
You know, it's almost like his mind is still quite malleable.
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