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  • The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined
    Pinker, Steven, 1954-
    We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much ... worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were common features of life for millennia, then were suddenly abolished. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? Pinker argues that thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.--From publisher description.
    Vrsta gradiva - knjiga ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Založništvo in izdelava - New York : Viking, 2011
    Jezik - angleški
    ISBN - 978-0-670-02295-3
    COBISS.SI-ID - 30844765

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