The Better Angels of Our Nature

Counteractions Motives The Civilization Process The Long Peace The Rights Revolution Exploitation Dominance Moralistic Ideology Reason Empathy Morals Self Control 6 Major Declines of Violence The Humanitarian Revolution The New Peace The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker Dept. of Psychology Harvard University Violence has been declining for long periods of time It has not been steady it has not gone down to zero ? Life in "State of Nature?" Thomas Hobbes Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The life of a man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." "Nothing can be more gentle than man in his primitive state." The Pacification Process Correct Forensic Archeology Ethnographic Vital Statistics 5,000 years ago, humans lived in a state of anarchy, without central government. Measuring Death by Violence Vs.