In human nature more beautiful angel

Leadership today go out shopping, home at noon without rice, then out to eat. Casual discovery by harvard have a lunch meeting, instantly will rub the thought of. The meeting have hamburger, cookies and coke supply, and even beer. Sit down and listen, it made the mistake on a high quality of the lecture. The department of psychology at Harvard University, please go to The famous professor Steven Pinker to promote his new book "in human Nature more beautiful Angel-Why Violence down" (The Better Angel of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined). Professor is both the world top Pinker language psychology experts, is the famous best-selling author. His new book is no doubt will also sparked new debate. Professor Pinker first analyzed the potential of human nature caused by violence and control of positive and negative factors of violence. In human nature of the Five the devil caused violence (Five Demons) including: as a result of the means of violence,best sunglasses players, and revenge "predatory" mentality, torture attitude and ideology. The so-called ideology, it is to point to specific ideology of the faithful believe that in the pursuit of infinite good use of violence in the process of infinite was justified. In human nature of violence control Four Angels (Four Angels) is including: Empathy (Empathy), self control, moral sense and Reason (Reason). If the former prevailed, then the whole world of violence levels will increase, conversely violence levels will decline. Second, from the long history of the dimension Angle, Pinker professor pointed out, there are six big trend reflected the globe to the reduction in violence. A human is from the nomadic gatherers to farming, the transformation of the settlers, he called it "putting down the Process" (Pacification Process); 2 it is by middle kingdom to the centralized kingdoms of change, is what he called a "civilization" (Citivilizing Process); Three is the emergence of enlightenment philosophy and the personal respect, what he calls a "humanistic Revolution" (Humanitarian Revolution); Four is after world war ii the confrontation of the cold war two pattern, and the United States after hegemony, is what he called a "long-term Peace" (Long Peace); Five is war become more frequent and not less casualties of long-term trends, he called it "the New Peace" (New Peace); Six is as the peace of the growth of the continuation and democratic society, for children, women, gay and ethnic violence of aggressive weakened gradually, he called it "Rights Revolution" (Rights Revolution). Again, Pinker professor says, there are five kinds of historical forces reduces the global violence levels. One is the leviathan type society the appearance and evolution. In this society, personal violence by state power and all kinds of the control system, that is the emergence of a state control of the house violence; 2 it is the emergence of trade and expanding the requirements of the peace deal parties security trade environment, namely trade provides economic motivation of the cooperation; 3 it is the rise of the feminist movement, enabling women from the pure race who continue to a group of growth, namely to women's empowerment; Four is the expansion of information network the us all bound together (he will this process called big cities socialist Cosmopolitanism), which makes human beings can of wider group empathy; Five is the rational thinking appeared (the so-called human affairs of scientific thinking), make people realize that, in most cases, the violence is not the best means to realize their own goal. In answer to questions of the audience in the process, Pinker professor, said he is not didn't see the current world various evils, and he also is not denying that part of the region and even serious worldwide, the possibility of a conflict, he is by no means firmly believe that human nature to good to the optimists, his this work, just based on long dimension data collection, history to analyze, analyzed and summarized result. For this lecture I view is, however, a major field is psychology professor incredibly to write so grand social, historical and political topic, itself is a very interesting. He from the psychology Angle of human nature, and began to analyze,cheap new era hats to think what factors make humans began to continued suppression of evil to reward good, and concluded that so grand conclusions, this kind of thinking mode is worth using for reference. Through in a separate analysis framework building several concepts, generalizing from data mining analysis in out of the interesting information, this is a kind of dispute larger analysis method. At least, from the view of economics, Pinker how to verify his professor proposed point of view, it is a difficult problem. Admittedly, through the natural experiments to confirm or card false can not be done, however, the world is so big, whether through the looking for some isolated society as instrumental variables, and proving its views? Anyway, I had a pleasant at noon, the meal ceng quite in position. Such activities more will be done.

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