![]() ![]() Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them. 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). In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. Patricia Goldman-Rakic, past president of the Society for Neuroscience ![]() Pinker's profoundly positive arguments for the compatibility of biology and humanism are unrivalled for their scope and depth and should be mandatory, if disquieting, reading.β Helena Cronin, author of The Ant and The Peacock βIn a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinkerbanishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.β ![]()
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