[EPUB] Language and Human Nature Tetralogy #3 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

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Publisher: Penguin
Genres: Psychology Books, Nonfiction Books, Science Books
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Pages: 560 pages
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN10: 0142003344
ISBN13: 9780142003343
Tags: Psychology eBooks, Nonfiction eBooks, Science eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub
Language: en
A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of RationalityThe Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now.

"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Updated with a new afterword

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.

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