RSA/ TLG Inaugural Thought Leadership Lecture
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and author of ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’ delivered the inaugural Thought Leadership Lecture at the RSA on 1st November.
Steven Pinker explored the ways in which modernity and its cultural institutions are actually making us better people, and provided the audience with fascinating insight into the conditions, norms and policies that combine to engage the “better angels” of human nature – our capacity for co-operation, empathy and altruism.