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
ISBN: 1101544643, 9781101544648
Page: 0
Format: epub
Publisher: Viking

It's fitting that I read Hans Morgenthau's “Scientific Man vs Great Power Politics” beforehand, because Steve Pinker's “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is almost its diametric opposite. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" Steven Pinker. Pinker has a new book coming out in October, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, and I've been given an advanced copy of it to review. The better angels of our nature: how violence has declined. If you've listened to my shows recently, you know how big a fan of Pinker I am, including his most brilliant work “The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined”. Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined (New York: Viking Penguin Group, 2011), 668. Steven Pinker's 800 pg reminder as to how far we've come. I'm reading “Better Angels of Our Nature” about the decline of violence in the course of human history. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker is a grand and all encompassing study in human violence as well as the trends that the author believes are driving it down. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker did not write his grand book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined with the purpose of bringing aid to sufferers from ethical skepticism. I have always enjoyed listening to Dr Steven Pinker (who actually earned a real doctorate degree from a real university).