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.
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...
評分作者按:本书评已经在《西安晚报》2015年9月30日第11版发表。 人有亲疏远近,最亲近自己的父母,然后亲近兄弟、姐妹和亲戚,最后亲近本族人、本国人。这就好比在人的脑子中有“家里人”和“家外人”这样的圈子,它控制着人性中“天使”与“魔鬼”这两股力量,一旦魔性占主导时...
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...
評分很長的一本書;相比後三分之一的分析,反而是前半對於暴力與戰爭曆史的綜述更引人思考。
评分Pinker在歪路上益行益遠
评分long ass book, didn't finish.
评分太長瞭
评分論點明確,論據真是過於豐富,長達800多頁。這本書更偏嚮於社科學學術著作。
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