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Nov 1, 2021 · Pinker takes up the Hobbesian notion that early human existence was a brutish war of all against all. Harari takes rather literally Rousseau’s thought experiment that we were born free and ...
Now along comes Steven Pinker, like Condorcet a major figure in the sci. ence of his day, like him drawing on a wide range of contemporary knowledges, reasserting a sweeping civilizational narrative of human Progress. In The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Pinker sketches a large vision: the diminution of human violence ...
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Oct 20, 2011 · Steven Pinker. Steven Pinker, Ph.D., is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in Harvard University's psychology department. He is the author of seven books, two of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
Dec 7, 2011 · Recognizing that he faces a skeptical reader, Pinker assembles nearly 800 pages to show how modernity abhors violence in the home, the neighborhood, and the globe. If you think that the twentieth-century has produced the most conflict in history, Pinker has countless charts and graphs to persuade you otherwise.
Jun 11, 2018 · Pinker has a sort of Hoover-vacuum approach to those whom he regards as on the wrong side of the Enlightenment, and this disturbs those who know their history of philosophy better than he does. Pinker’s pile-driver attitude toward the Enlightenment, whose partisans had their failings like anyone else of their time and place, does his other ...
- John Torpey
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- 2018
Nov 9, 2017 · Pinker points out many anthropologists are committed to some version of the noble savage theory—the idea that in the wild humans are innately good, only to be corrupted by society and...
Pinker reviews what he sees as humanism’s intellectual adversaries, such as those who caricature it as cold utilitarianism, those who suggest that humans have an innate need for spiritual beliefs, and the classic accusation, ubiquitous in the Renaissance and Enlightenment, that there cannot be good or virtue without God.
