The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined



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ISBN: 1101544643, 9781101544648
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Panel discussion with Steven Pinker at Uppsala University, Sweden, March 2012. So begins Steven Pinker's latest tome: The Better Angels of Our Nature. This is a huge book, but as Pinker says, it is a huge subject. But judging by Pinker's latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, he's also not a cynical pessimist. If you're hopeless about the state of humanity, you may find Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined reassuring, perhaps uplifting. 3 thoughts on “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker did not write his grand book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined with the purpose of bringing aid to sufferers from ethical skepticism. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker is a grand and all encompassing study in human violence as well as the trends that the author believes are driving it down. Seibert May 27, 2013 at 10:25 pm. Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined (New York: Viking Penguin Group, 2011), 668. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker (Topix) Health News Headlines. My column yesterday took a modest jab at Steven Pinker's “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” and I thought that I would follow up with a few more comments on his thesis. At least, not if you're interested in decreasing human violence (592). Pinker's objective is to persuade the reader that, contrary to what we may instinctively feel, violence has declined over time. It's fitting that I read Hans Morgenthau's “Scientific Man vs Great Power Politics” beforehand, because Steve Pinker's “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is almost its diametric opposite. Cut to the Chase: This is somewhat of a departure for Pinker, whose earlier works have focused more on language, learning, and neurobiology. Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker.