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  • TV Episode | 18 min | Talk-Show

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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
TV Episode | 18 min | Talk-Show

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative ...See morePsychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer. Written by TED See less
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