http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/aeschylus The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/literature-and-end-of-violence <p>Does literature make us better human beings? Can poetry lead us to moral action? Do novels encourage us to be more empathetic? These are age-old questions, of course. But I was thinking of them after finishing Steven Pinker’s much-talked about book, <i>The Better Angels of our Nature. Why Violence has Declined</i>.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/literature-and-end-of-violence">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/literature-and-end-of-violence#comments Aeschylus literature and empathy Steven Pinker the civilizing process the end of war http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1381 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:22:00 -0800 Gregory Jusdanis 1381 at http://arcade.stanford.edu