
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Narrateur(s):
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Victor Bevine
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Auteur(s):
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Steven Pinker
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, 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.
NOTE: Some changes to the original text have been made with the author's approval.
©2003 Steven Pinker (P)2009 Audible, Inc.Ce que les critiques en disent
Not only is Pinker a strong writer; clear, concise and probing, he is masterful at the utilization of history to build strong and intriguing premises.
His breadth of knowledge of the world, philosophy and science, and his fascination with other important subjects outside of his main discipline make for a colorful and harrowing journey through time.
A wonderful reading of a true intellectual renaissance man.
In today's culture of extremes and group-think this book is a true beacon of light.
Pinker is an intellectual Perseus.
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Thorough
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Listening to this recording made me feel calmer, more comfortable and honest about being myself: a mortal, scared, imperfect, doubtful and skeptical human being. In some cases I could say that a veil was lifted from my eyes, and I could see the world around me clearly.
Some thoughts and feelings that were lingering in the back for of my mind for years suddenly found nice and eloquent expression on the pages of this book.
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Very insightfult
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Of all possible priors, assuming human behavior, cognition and psychology is biologically unbounded is at one extreme of an entire spectrum of possibilities. Pinker suggests the appeal of this idea might have grown out of horror for Nazi Germany and, indeed, nothing more explicitely emboddies disgusting human tendencies than Nazism. You want to flee far from that -- and the blank slate is as far as you can conceptually flee.
It is a great read for anyone interested in human behavior, though it curiously seems political in this day and age.
As far as I can tell, knowing how we behave is the best way to design successful solutions to our problems -- and Pinker once again puts his finger on a bleeding wound.
The nicest part about Pinker is that he leans relatively leftward, technically does study humanities and social sciences and is a college professor: it is hard to paint him genuinely in a bad light as he is commenting about his own circles.
It is a great read, even if you aren't interested in the problems that emerged recently on college campuses. How he ties biology to behavior is a very good and rather simple summary of scientific research. He also takes the time to explain the details of how we reach conclusions, so you get to understand the most important aspect of science: which questions to ask.
Fascinating study of human cognition
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The current state of,… History, and Future, of Human Behavior - Explained!!! 🤯
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Classic
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used to love it but feels dated
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Couldn't finish it
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