The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker
Publisher: Viking
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, psychologist Steven Pinker stakes out a boldly optimistic view of the world, at a time when his readers are no doubt processing all kinds of bad news. It is unusual for the subtitle of a book to undersell it, but Steven Pinker’s “Better Angels of Our Nature. I have always enjoyed listening to Dr Steven Pinker (who actually earned a real doctorate degree from a real university). At least, not if you're interested in decreasing human violence (592). Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature. "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" Steven Pinker. "The Better Angels is a monumental achievement. Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,. But judging by Pinker's latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, he's also not a cynical pessimist. Straining “This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history,” he boldly asserts, and then continues: “Violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.”. His book should make it much harder for pessimists to cling to their gloomy vision of the future. It's fitting that I read Hans Morgenthau's “Scientific Man vs Great Power Politics” beforehand, because Steve Pinker's “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is almost its diametric opposite. Ed DeJesus: Book report: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why . The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker. Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined (New York: Viking Penguin Group, 2011), 668.