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100 1 _aPinker, Steven,
_d1954-
_99107
245 1 4 _aThe blank slate :
_bthe modern denial of human nature /
_cSteven Pinker.
260 _aNew York :
_bViking,
_c2002.
263 _a0209
300 _axiii, 509 p.
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p.461-489) and index.
505 0 0 _gPt. I.
_tThe Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine.
_gCh. 1.
_tThe Official Theory.
_gCh. 2.
_tSilly Putty.
_gCh. 3.
_tThe Last Wall to Fall.
_gCh. 4.
_tCulture Vultures.
_gCh. 5.
_tThe Slate's Last Stand --
_gPt. II.
_tFear and Loathing.
_gCh. 6.
_tPolitical Scientists.
_gCh. 7.
_tThe Holy Trinity --
_gPt. III.
_tHuman Nature with a Human Face.
_gCh. 8.
_tThe Fear of Inequality.
_gCh. 9.
_tThe Fear of Imperfectibility.
_gCh. 10.
_tThe Fear of Determinism.
_gCh. 11.
_tThe Fear of Nihilism --
_gPt. IV.
_tKnow Thyself.
_gCh. 12.
_tIn Touch with Reality.
_gCh. 13.
_tOut of Our Depths.
_gCh. 14.
_tThe Many Roots of Our Suffering.
_gCh. 15.
_tThe Sanctimonious Animal --
_gPt. V.
_tHot Buttons.
_gCh. 16.
_tPolitics.
_gCh. 17.
_tViolence.
_gCh. 18.
_tGender.
_gCh. 19.
_tChildren.
_gCh. 20.
_tThe Arts --
_gPt. VI.
_tThe Voice of the Species --
_gApp.
_tDonald E. Brown's List of Human Universals.
520 1 _a"In The 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), and the Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology).
520 8 _aEach dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.".
520 8 _a"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.
520 8 _aIt 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.".
520 8 _a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 _aNature and nurture.
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900 _bTOC
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