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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... culture but also has roots in the nature of men's sexuality.3 For invoking nurture and nature , not nurture alone ... culture is crucial , but culture could not exist without mental faculties that allow humans to create and learn culture ...
... culture but also has roots in the nature of men's sexuality.3 For invoking nurture and nature , not nurture alone ... culture is crucial , but culture could not exist without mental faculties that allow humans to create and learn culture ...
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... culture to begin with . My goal in this book is not to argue that genes are everything and culture is nothing— no one believes that -- but to explore why the extreme position ( that culture is everything ) is so often seen as moderate ...
... culture to begin with . My goal in this book is not to argue that genes are everything and culture is nothing— no one believes that -- but to explore why the extreme position ( that culture is everything ) is so often seen as moderate ...
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... culture of “ politi- cally incorrect " shock jocks who revel in anti - intellectualism and bigotry , em- boldened by ... cultural preferences has led social plan- ners to write off people's enjoyment of ornament , natural light , and ...
... culture of “ politi- cally incorrect " shock jocks who revel in anti - intellectualism and bigotry , em- boldened by ... cultural preferences has led social plan- ners to write off people's enjoyment of ornament , natural light , and ...
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... culture : a system of words , images , stereotypes , role models , and contingencies of reward and punishment . A long and growing list of concepts that would seem natural to the human way of thinking ( emotions , kinship , the sexes ...
... culture : a system of words , images , stereotypes , role models , and contingencies of reward and punishment . A long and growing list of concepts that would seem natural to the human way of thinking ( emotions , kinship , the sexes ...
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... culture . Equally surprising are the sorry standards to which the great scholar here has sunk . The suggestion that a language can be " grown - up " and " masculine " is so subjective as to be meaningless . He attributes a personality ...
... culture . Equally surprising are the sorry standards to which the great scholar here has sunk . The suggestion that a language can be " grown - up " and " masculine " is so subjective as to be meaningless . He attributes a personality ...
Índice
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14 | |
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 |
INDEX | 491 |
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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