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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The Modern Denial of Human Nature Steven Pinker. ogy ever since . It became the ... select - doctor , lawyer , artist , merchant - chief , and yes , even beggar ... natural environment , said the behaviorists , these contingencies are part ...
The Modern Denial of Human Nature Steven Pinker. ogy ever since . It became the ... select - doctor , lawyer , artist , merchant - chief , and yes , even beggar ... natural environment , said the behaviorists , these contingencies are part ...
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... choice and cul- tural communication , is on the verge of escape from the blind control of that deterministic world ... natural selection . Wallace parted company from Darwin by claiming that the human mind could not be explained by evo ...
... choice and cul- tural communication , is on the verge of escape from the blind control of that deterministic world ... natural selection . Wallace parted company from Darwin by claiming that the human mind could not be explained by evo ...
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... nature , and clear the world at once from folly , vanity , and affectation . " Few people today are familiar with the lovely ... natural selection among replicators . Gregor Mendel , and then James Watson and Francis Crick , showed how ...
... nature , and clear the world at once from folly , vanity , and affectation . " Few people today are familiar with the lovely ... natural selection among replicators . Gregor Mendel , and then James Watson and Francis Crick , showed how ...
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Índice
5 | |
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 |
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The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature in Modern Intellectual Life Steven Pinker Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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