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RUTGER BREGMAN: the pursuit of moral ambition

RUTGER BREGMAN: the pursuit of moral ambition

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Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian, author, and public intellectual renowned for his progressive ideas on social and economic reform.


Rutger emphasises that living well means taking meaningful, practical action to address global issues—not just raising awareness. Drawing from his books Humankind and his initiative The School for Moral Ambition, he advocates for channeling ambition into social impact, encouraging career shifts toward solving major problems. He promotes ideas like universal basic income, effective altruism, and combating factory farming, while exploring how power dynamics influence moral choices.


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