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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... thought are hard - wired or , to use the old word , innate .... This is a breath of air for a topic that has been politicized for too long . " - The Economist " [ Pinker ] wades resolutely into the comforting gloom surrounding these not ...
... thought are hard - wired or , to use the old word , innate .... This is a breath of air for a topic that has been politicized for too long . " - The Economist " [ Pinker ] wades resolutely into the comforting gloom surrounding these not ...
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... thought and speech have been inhibited by fear of consequences for asking forbidden questions . " -Nancy Jeannette Friedlander , The San Diego Union - Tribune " This book is a modern magnum opus . The scholarship alone is mind ...
... thought and speech have been inhibited by fear of consequences for asking forbidden questions . " -Nancy Jeannette Friedlander , The San Diego Union - Tribune " This book is a modern magnum opus . The scholarship alone is mind ...
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... thought and behavior , the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock . To acknowledge human nature , many think , is to endorse racism , sexism , war , greed , genocide , nihilism , reactionary ...
... thought and behavior , the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock . To acknowledge human nature , many think , is to endorse racism , sexism , war , greed , genocide , nihilism , reactionary ...
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... thoughts and feelings - is embedded in the very way we think about people . We fill out this theory by introspecting on our own minds and assum- ing that our fellows are like ourselves , and by watching people's behavior and filing away ...
... thoughts and feelings - is embedded in the very way we think about people . We fill out this theory by introspecting on our own minds and assum- ing that our fellows are like ourselves , and by watching people's behavior and filing away ...
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... thought , social life , and morality ( Part IV ) and how it can clarify controversies on politics , violence , gender , childrearing , and the arts ( Part V ) . Finally I will show how the passing of the Blank Slate is less disquieting ...
... thought , social life , and morality ( Part IV ) and how it can clarify controversies on politics , violence , gender , childrearing , and the arts ( Part V ) . Finally I will show how the passing of the Blank Slate is less disquieting ...
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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