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

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined


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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker
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This old colonial idea was first popularly resurrected by Steven Pinker, not Diamond, so it's time to peruse the former's mighty book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. In The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker tells us that civilization, capitalism and the state have made us less violent. That's the arresting claim made by Harvard University cognitive neuroscientist Steven Pinker in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. 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. The Better Angels of Our Nature. Except for the Oklahoma part, this is the thesis of Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Why Violence Has Declined. And its once thriving comments section is dry, not long ago a reader responded to something I wrote with a warm recommendation that I read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined . Both Pinker and It takes only a single page of preamble before he lays out his grisly stall to try and sell us his grislier thesis, which as far as I can understand it, is basically that everyone was once generally violent and horrible (tribal people still are, apparently they are living relics of the past). "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" Steven Pinker. 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. Steven Pinker's 800 pg reminder as to how far we've come. The better angels of our nature: how violence has declined. I have always enjoyed listening to Dr Steven Pinker (who actually earned a real doctorate degree from a real university). Ľ�者: Steven Pinker 出版社: Viking Adult 副标题: Why Violence Has Declined 出版年: 2011-10 页数: 832 定价: USD 40.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670022953. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined: by Steven Pinker 2011.