It sounds strange however contrary to popular belief, rate of all kind of violence, death toles in wars, homicide rates, beating of children and woman, cruelity to animals and goes so on, declines throughout history. In this book, Steven Pinker uses a lot of numerical data and scientific research, papers to demonstrate that fact.
The book consists of 10 sections. The first six sections are about history and history of violence. We see a lot of data about that violence is really declined course of history. Also, Pinker explains political theories and ideas that influenced the revolutions that declined violence.
Sections 7 to 9 are about the psychology of violence and passivism. We see the affective neuroscience theory of the brain created by 
Jaak Panksepp ( 
Afektif Nörobilim ). This is the part that is related to our nature. We see brain systems related to violence and how to affect or suppress them. Also, as an evolutionary psychologist, Pinker explains some nature-nurture facts about the psychology of violence.
It's a really big book (For me, it took 2 big months of tons of reading) about the subject. Although books' length, Pinker is very successful in writing clear and incredibly fluent texts.
Unfortunately, I can not mention the content of the book here. I have dozens of pages of notes for this book. If someone curious about it can send me a private message to get them :).
Jaak Panksepp ( Afektif Nörobilim ). This is the part that is related to our nature. We see brain systems related to violence and how to affect or suppress them. Also, as an evolutionary psychologist, Pinker explains some nature-nurture facts about the psychology of violence.
It's a really big book (For me, it took 2 big months of tons of reading) about the subject. Although books' length, Pinker is very successful in writing clear and incredibly fluent texts.
Unfortunately, I can not mention the content of the book here. I have dozens of pages of notes for this book. If someone curious about it can send me a private message to get them :).
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