The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NaturePenguin, 26 ago 2003 - 560 páginas A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense. |
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... believe and what we need to know , [ The Blank Slate ] is required reading . Pinker presents an unanswerable case for accepting that man can be , as he is , both wired and free . " -Frederic Raphael , Los Angeles Times " Pinker's ...
... believe and what we need to know , [ The Blank Slate ] is required reading . Pinker presents an unanswerable case for accepting that man can be , as he is , both wired and free . " -Frederic Raphael , Los Angeles Times " Pinker's ...
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... believe that the mind is a blank slate ? Isn't it obvious to anyone with more than one child , to anyone who has been in a heterosexual relation- ship , or to anyone who has noticed that children learn language but house pets don't ...
... believe that the mind is a blank slate ? Isn't it obvious to anyone with more than one child , to anyone who has been in a heterosexual relation- ship , or to anyone who has noticed that children learn language but house pets don't ...
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... believe that controversies about policy al- most always involve tradeoffs between competing values , and that science is equipped to identify the tradeoffs but not to resolve them . Many of these tradeoffs , I will show , arise from ...
... believe that controversies about policy al- most always involve tradeoffs between competing values , and that science is equipped to identify the tradeoffs but not to resolve them . Many of these tradeoffs , I will show , arise from ...
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... believe it is responsible for some of the unfortunate trends in recent intellectual life . One trend is a stated contempt among many scholars for the concepts of truth , logic , and evidence . Another is a hypocritical divide between ...
... believe it is responsible for some of the unfortunate trends in recent intellectual life . One trend is a stated contempt among many scholars for the concepts of truth , logic , and evidence . Another is a hypocritical divide between ...
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... believe we can reasonably strive for as individuals and as a society . Rival theories of human nature are entwined in different ways of life and different political systems , and have been a source of much conflict over the course of ...
... believe we can reasonably strive for as individuals and as a society . Rival theories of human nature are entwined in different ways of life and different political systems , and have been a source of much conflict over the course of ...
Índice
The Official Theory | 5 |
Silly Putty | 14 |
The Last Wall to Fall | 30 |
Culture Vultures | 59 |
The Slates Last Stand | 73 |
Fear and Loathing | 103 |
Political Scientists | 105 |
The Holy Trinity | 121 |
Out of Our Depths | 219 |
The Many Roots of Our Suffering | 241 |
The Sanctimonious Animal | 269 |
Hot Buttons | 281 |
Politics | 283 |
Violence | 306 |
Gender | 337 |
Children | 372 |
Human Nature with a Human Face | 137 |
The Fear of Inequality | 141 |
The Fear of Imperfectibility | 159 |
The Fear of Determinism | 174 |
The Fear of Nihilism | 186 |
Know Thyself | 195 |
In Touch with Reality | 197 |
The Arts | 400 |
The Voice of the Species | 421 |
Donald E Browns List of Human Universals | 435 |
NOTES | 441 |
REFERENCES | 461 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature in Modern Intellectual Life Steven Pinker Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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