![]() ![]() 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. 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. The central idea of his book is about the three main ideas present in the History of Western Philosophy and ingrained in public and academic consciousness: The Noble Savage (we are born noble, but corrupted by society'), The Blank Slate (tabula rasa' - we are born without any innate mechanisms and the blank is filled by experience) and The. ![]() 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. Get this audiobook Free when you try Audible: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker on Audible: ![]()
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