44 ordspråk av Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker föddes den 18 september 1954
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It's also a recognition that however much people might vary, they have certain things in common by virtue of their common human nature.

Political equality consists of recognizing, as the Constitution says, that people have certain inalienable rights, namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Recognizing those rights is not the same thing as believing that people are indistinguishable in every respect.

Intellectual life was enormously affected by an understandable revulsion to Nazism, with its pseudoscientific theories of race, and its equally nonsensical glorification of conflict as part of the evolutionary wisdom of nature.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

But a conception of human nature, and its connections to other fields such as politics and the arts, have been there from time immemorial.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Today there are movements in the arts to reintroduce beauty and narrative and melody and other basic human pleasures. And they are considered radical extremists!

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