The blank slate the modern denial of human nature
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Allen Lane
2002
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| Edition: | First published |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009804436906719 |
Table of Contents:
- Conté: 1. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine. The official theory
- Silly putty
- The last wall to fall
- Culture vultures
- The slate's last stand
- 2. Fear and loathing. Political scientists
- The holy trinity
- 3. Human nature with a human face. The fear of inequality
- The fear of imperfectibility
- The fear of determinism
- The fear of nihilism
- 4. Know thyself. In touch with reality
- Out of our depths
- The many roots of our suffering
- The sanctimonious animal
- 5. Hot buttons. Politics
- Violence
- Gender
- Children
- The arts
- 6. The voice of the species
- Appendix: Donald E. Brown's list of human universals.
