The Better Angels Of Our Nature

Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature — an executable toolkit for understanding the decline of violence throughout human history, the forces that drove it, and the implications for our future. Covers 5 use cases: ① The Historical Decline — how violence has decreased across millennia, centuries, and decades: from tribal warfare to interstate war, homicide to genocide ("Is violence declining" "History of violence" "Decline of war") ② The Six Trends — Pinker's framework: the Pacification Process, the Civilizing Process, the Humanitarian Revolution, the Long Peace, the New Peace, the Rights Revolutions ("Six trends of violence decline" "Pinker's framework" "Humanitarian Revolution") ③ The Five Inner Demons — the psychological forces that drive violence: predatory violence, dominance, revenge, sadism, and ideology ("Why humans are violent" "Psychology of violence" "Inner demons") ④ The Better Angels — the psychological forces that reduce violence: empathy, self-control, morality, reason, and taboo ("What reduces violence" "Psychology of peace" "Better angels") ⑤ The Modern World — the role of government, trade, literacy, and cosmopolitanism in reducing violence, and the question of whether the decline can continue ("Why violence declined" "Civilization and violence" "Future of peace") Trigger when users say: "Steven Pinker" "Better Angels of Our Nature" "Is violence declining" "Why is violence decreasing" "History of violence" "Peace and conflict" "Decline of war" "Violence statistics" "Humanitarian progress" "Are we living in a peaceful era" "Psychology of violence" "War declining" "Homicide rates" or mention: Steven Pinker / The Better Angels of Our Nature / decline of violence / history of violence / pacification / humanitarian revolution / long peace / rights revolutions / inner demons / better angels / Leviathan / civilization / trade / cosmopolitanism / reason / empathy / self-control / homicide / war / genocide / torture / capital punishment. Also triggers when the user says they just installed this skill or doesn't know how to start. Related skills: a-history-of-western-philosophy (history of ideas), the-science-of-leonardo (Enlightenment thought), sapiens (human history), collapse (why societies fail), the-rational-optimist (human progress).

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