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(Ebook) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker ISBN 9780142003343, 0142003344

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Authors:Steven Pinker
Pages:528 pages.
Year:2003
Editon:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books
Language:english
File Size:3.68 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780142003343, 0142003344
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(Ebook) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker ISBN 9780142003343, 0142003344

“In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brillianceSteven Pinkerbanishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.”—Helena Cronin, author ofThe Ant and The Peacock“A mind blowing, mind openingexpos.Pinker's profoundly positive arguments for the compatibility of biology and humanism are unrivalled for their scope and depth and should be mandatory, if disquieting, reading.”—Patricia Goldman-Rakic, past president of the Society for NeuroscienceInThe Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas:the Blank Slate(the mind has no innate traits),the Noble Savage(people are born good and corrupted by society), andthe Ghost in the Machine(each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.Pinker injects calm and rationality into these debates by showing that equality, progress, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about a rich human nature. He disarms even the most menacing threats with clear thinking, common sense, and pertinent facts from science and history.Despite its popularity among intellectuals during much of the twentieth century, he argues, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good. It denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces hardheaded analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of government, violence, parenting, and the arts.Pinker shows that an acknowledgement of human nature that is grounded in science and common sense, far from being dangerous, can complement insights about the human condition made by millennia of artists and philosophers. All this is done in the style that earned his previous books many prizes and worldwide acclaim:wit, lucidity, and insight into matters great and small.
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