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Steven Pinker on Reason and the Decline of Violence

7 months ago

Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

Quibbles about measurement aside, I agree with Steven Pinker that humans have become astoundingly more peaceful over the past several centuries. What I found unsatisfactory about Better Angels of Our Nature is precisely the rationalist element of Pinker's explanation for the decline of violence ... Read More

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