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The Laws of Human Nature

Disciplines:
psychology
history
philosophy/human nature
robert greene

Summary

Robert Greene's 2018 synthesis of historical psychology — 18 laws covering envy, grandiosity, shortsightedness, gender rigidity, and other aspects of human nature drawn from historical examples — his most comprehensive work.

Core Contribution

Provides the most ambitious synthesis of Greene's historical-psychological method — each law is illustrated through deep historical case studies and translated into practical wisdom for understanding others and mastering yourself.

Historical Influences

Robert Greene Historical psychology literature

Intellectual Lineage

Robert Greene Viking

Allied Works

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Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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