Book Club featuring Selected Portions of Stephen Pinker’s “BLANK SLATE”
Selected Portions of Stephen Pinker's Blank Slate (Preface, Ch. 3, Ch. 8)
Summary from Book Jacket: In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: the Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), the Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and the Ghost in the Machine (each of us has
a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them
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