After the war, with the decline of Social Darwinism, the doctrine of the Blank Slate was established in the intellectual community in the form of standard social science and social constructivism. Later, under the banner and rationale of Social Darwinism and eugenics, the Nazis masked their atrocities as social manifestations of natural law, and committed crimes too numerous to record.Ĭontaminated by the Nazis, the topic of “innate differences among people” has obvious political implications, which has gradually become sensitive topic over the years. Herbert Spencer, a self-styled follower of Darwin, mistakenly transferred the theory of evolution into the field of sociology. There was a time when racial prejudice roamed the world in the guise of science. Today we’ll unlock the book “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” by Steven Pinker.
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