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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... things we properly hold dear but subversive of the phony protective layers of misinforma- tion surrounding them .... My reservations with Pinker's view [ will be resolved ] in the bright light of rational inquiry that he brings to these ...
... things we properly hold dear but subversive of the phony protective layers of misinforma- tion surrounding them .... My reservations with Pinker's view [ will be resolved ] in the bright light of rational inquiry that he brings to these ...
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... things are gone , but you can't help thinking about how you're going to replace them . What Steven Pinker has done is break into our common human home and steal our illusions . " -John Morrish , The Independent " As a brightly lighted ...
... things are gone , but you can't help thinking about how you're going to replace them . What Steven Pinker has done is break into our common human home and steal our illusions . " -John Morrish , The Independent " As a brightly lighted ...
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... things children experience while they are growing up are just as impor- tant as the things they are born with . Even when a behavior is heritable , an individual's behavior is still a product of development , and thus it has a causal ...
... things children experience while they are growing up are just as impor- tant as the things they are born with . Even when a behavior is heritable , an individual's behavior is still a product of development , and thus it has a causal ...
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... things that common sense might call into question . This is the mentality of a cult , in which fantastical beliefs are flaunted as proof of one's piety . That mentality cannot coexist with an esteem for the truth , and I believe it is ...
... things that common sense might call into question . This is the mentality of a cult , in which fantastical beliefs are flaunted as proof of one's piety . That mentality cannot coexist with an esteem for the truth , and I believe it is ...
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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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