The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker - PART I (part 2) | Текст песни

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PART I (part 2)

Our theory of human nature is the wellspring of much in our lives. We consult it when we want to persuade or threaten, inform or deceive. It advises us on how to nurture our marriages, bring up our children, and control our own
behavior. Its assumptions about learning drive our educational policy; its assumptions about motivation drive our policies on economics, law, and crime.

And because it delineates what people can achieve easily, what they can achieve only with sacrifice or pain, and what they cannot achieve at all, it affects our values: what we believe we can reasonably strive for as individuals and as a society. Rival theories of human nature are entwined in different ways of life and different political systems, and have been a source of much conflict over the course of history.