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What Is a Man?(The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature)(Book Review)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker (Viking, 528 pp., $27.95)
Patients often ask me why they do the things they do. Naturally, they inquire only after their bad habits and actions, such as drinking too much or burgling houses; their good habits and actions are, to them at least, self-explanatory, as being manifestations of their true or innermost selves, and thus arousing no curiosity. I ask these patients what would count as a satisfactory explanation of their behavior, and not one of them has ever been able to answer me. Man is a mystery so deep that we don't even know what a solution to it would be like.
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