Steven Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind. His popular and highly praised books include Words and Rules, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. The recipient of several major awards for his teaching and scientific research, Pinker is Peter de Florez professor of psychology in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, pogroms, gruesome punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened?
This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives- the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away-and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.
没有统计的叙事是盲目的,没有叙事的统计是空洞的。某种意义上,这正是我对平克这本书的期待。我相信,人类目前已有的智识并不足以洞悉人性和预测未来,因此读这本书无关结论,我关心的是一个敢于挑战大命题的著名学者解决问题的逻辑是怎样的,他如何将统计和叙事有机的结合起来...
評分文 / 西闪 读到史蒂芬·平克(Steven Pinker)的巨著《人性中的善良天使》,颇感兴奋。平克是我一直关注的科学家,他的《语言本能》《心智探奇》等书,都给我的阅读带来极大的愉悦。几年前听闻他写了一本讨论人类暴力史的大部头,中文版权已由严搏非先生引进,我就一直期待着...
評分文/煅煜 时间推移到我身处广州的2010年左右,那个时候我用微薄的工资购置了一台电脑,在装网线的时候,遇到一个曾经混过老大的人来帮我组装,他现在只从事白道,本来应该会有所隐瞒他的这段历史,但是他没有这样做,而是给我说了这一切,并且说是为了兄弟的未来之类的...
評分关于人道主义革命的起因 十七世纪以来的人道主义革命的起因,一个可能的解释是人们在自己生活改善的同时变得更有同情心了。原来廉价的生命变得越来越珍贵了。这一假说大致符合历史的大潮流,一千多年的时间里,世界一步步摆脱了人祭和酷刑处决等野蛮习俗,也是在这一千多年的时...
評分黃金時代不是在過去,而是在我們麵前。
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评分this is by far my favorite among all of the steven pinker books, but so long. Gosh. Very rich in info though
评分this is by far my favorite among all of the steven pinker books, but so long. Gosh. Very rich in info though
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