Download Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human AudioBook Free
In his stunning new reserve, Relationship and Civilization, creator William Tucker looks at the evidence from biology, progression, anthropology, history, and culture to come to a remarkable conclusion: it was the monogamous pairing of male and feminine - unusual among mammals - that led to human evolution. Additionally, it is monogamous matrimony that has shaped Western Civilization, presenting us our sense of justice, undergirded Traditional western democracy, and is the foremost institution we've for perpetuating individual freedom and happiness. Yet marriage is now under hazard - and perhaps not in ways that people believe. We're able to actually see the de facto abolition of matrimony, with their state taking many of the responsibilities previously assumed by the nuclear family.Among Tucker's many eye-opening observations:
- How primitive polygamy was a retrogression from the initial monogamous framework of the individual family
- Why monogamy was necessary to the introduction of ancient greek language democracy
- Why it was the Catholic Cathedral, not the Bible or Christianity in general, that was the fantastic defender of monogamous matrimony in Traditional western Civilization
- Why polygamous societies - from primitive farming communities, to the Mongols, to the Muslim world, to the early Mormons - are internally violent and have bloody borders
- Why same-sex matrimony - utterly unimportant, in evolutionary terms - is a distraction from the true marriage debate we ought to be having
- The prospects for monogamous matrimony - and the hazards if it collapses
