Download A Macat Analysis of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined AudioBook Free
Shared in 2011, The Better Angels of the Mother nature is a gloriously optimistic book. In it, well-known cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker submit an argument that contradicted what most people presumed at that time. Pinker said that despite humanity's natural tendency toward assault, we are, in truth, less violent today than previously. To confirm it, he organized pages of in depth statistical information. For him, a lot of the credit for the drop would go to the Enlightenment, the key intellectual motion of 18th-century Europe. Enlightenment thinkers argued for ideas of liberty, tolerance, and esteem for the worthiness of human life. As those ideas filtered down through society, they affected the way people thought. That subconscious change resulted in behavioral change - and overall we became more peaceful. However the book sparked a blazing argument. Some critics passionately disagreed that humanity could conquer the biological need toward assault. Others argued that Pinker's statistics were too focused on the Western world, too limited, and even simply flawed. The argument still rages on.
