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/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《人性中的善良天使们(Angels)》这本书旨在打破一种认为二十世纪充满了战争与毁灭的 “今不如古” 的错觉,并为暴力的在漫长历史中的总体下降趋势寻找诸原因。作者指出这种错觉其实是由于心理因素引起的:为未来占卜凶兆的人总是能博得更多眼球,我们总是现实地看待现在,并...
評分本书被和谐的部分估计很多,即使单看中文版(截至第六章)就有至少两处极其明显的和谐。 第六章 中文版: 但是,无政府主义观点的主要问题是,并不是一般意义上的政府,而是只有少数特定形式的政府进行大规模的杀戮。准确地说,141个大屠杀政权制造的死亡中有3/4是四个政府所为...
評分文 / 徐贲 斯蒂芬•平克的《人性中的善良天使》(下称《善良天使》中译本出版后已经引起了广泛的注意。这是一部议题内容和材料都非常丰富的巨著,也是一部十分值得我们思考和讨论的著作。应该说,这本书的价值并不在于它对暴力下降(主要是“和平进步”)所持的乐观主义,...
平剋教授可以考慮讓銀時毀個三觀試試。。。
评分書涉及話題太廣,閱讀過程中對部分曆史內容産生質疑,讀完後翻閱瞭些反方觀點,目前也沒發現令人信服的,最有意義的批評是認為本書收集和解讀數據的方式存在漏洞,因曆史數據本身不精確,難以和當前比較。我從來就認為古代社會更暴力(非基於實證的主觀感受),質疑的不是書的立意,而在於Pinker是不是誇大瞭古代社會的暴力。假設這本書的立意是正確的,對於其原因的解釋個人是信服的,但Pinker是不是誇大瞭啓濛運動的作用?畢竟這本書完全是基於西方文化的,也許應該對比東西方(尤其是東亞文化)纔能真正從全人類的角度更好的分析這個問題?從個人閱讀感受來說,涉及曆史的部分,Pinker有過多描述的傾嚮,論證給我一種不充分不信服感;涉及心理學的部分就好得多,讓我滿意。考慮到曆史不是他的本行,能寫到這份上真是博學。
评分Pinker在歪路上益行益遠
评分好書是好書,可看完一遍還是覺得雲裏霧裏,改天還得重讀一遍
评分有一次教授舉著此人寫的一本關於語言的書咆哮這個SoB搶先寫瞭她的idea ╮(╯_╰)╭
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