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

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker ebook
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ISBN: 1101544643, 9781101544648
Format: epub
Publisher: Viking

His book should make it much harder for pessimists to cling to their gloomy vision of the future. The book is called The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. For additional strategies for fostering social glue, I would look at Steven Pinker's (2011) book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. 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. Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature. My favourite book right now is the 802 page work by Harvard Professor of Psychology, Steven Pinker – The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of our Nature argues that violence has been declining over the last several centuries, and continues to decline, even though the common wisdom seems to say the opposite. 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. He says that we are living in the least violent era in all of human history. "The Better Angels is a monumental achievement. People often ask me what is the best book I've read in the last year.