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This is the most absurd libertarian/"devil's advocate" garbage I ever read.
I'm fascinated with why people do what they do.
This book reinterates over and over how much
of human nature is determined before we are born.
This book reinterates over and over how much
of human nature is determined before we are born.
i can think of very few people who would enjoy this book in the way that i did. it is not particularly easy to read, it is not particularly accessible; and yet the oddly esoteric subject matter is one that i am intimately familiar with. my education has a new perspective.
if you are a studier of theory (particularly anthropology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy), it may be worth your while.
if you are a studier of theory (particularly anthropology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy), it may be worth your while.
Not as powerful as The Better Angels of Our Nature but more intimate and poignant. It's an essential rewiring of our cultural and political institutions, and of our own mental and moral faculties, with this ironic thesis: that our brains are hardwired.
The arguments of what affects us more as a human, or inherent nature or our environment, have been going on for years, and this is Pinker's attempt to look at the arguments for and against.
A lot of what he puts forward here is fascinating stuff, from details of collaboration between fishing crews, boys brought up as girls after failed operations, test and observations on twins brought up apart and so on. But he spent an awful lot of the time being very critical on subject as diverse as feminism and philosophy, and it didn't really play a part of this book.
Disappointing in the end, as some of his other books that I have read have been so much more coherent.
A lot of what he puts forward here is fascinating stuff, from details of collaboration between fishing crews, boys brought up as girls after failed operations, test and observations on twins brought up apart and so on. But he spent an awful lot of the time being very critical on subject as diverse as feminism and philosophy, and it didn't really play a part of this book.
Disappointing in the end, as some of his other books that I have read have been so much more coherent.