The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined in both the short and the long term and a
Cover of the first edition
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Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the
The Better Angels of Our Nature
…the privileging of their own interests over others and to reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won." Pinker credits Peter Singer for the metaphor "escalator of reason". The first section of the book, chapters 2 through 7, seeks to demonstrate and to analyze historical trends…
Singer in 2017
Singer in 2009
Singer at an effective altruism conference in Melbourne in 2015
Singer in São Paulo in 2013