Blank Slate is a book what is it about?

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker is a book that rebuts the common assumption that humans are born as blank slates and everything we do and know is learned. He agrues against a doctrine that state that the mind has no innate traits- a doctorine that has been embraced by many intellectuals during the past century, one that denies our commnon humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans and distorts our understanding of politics, violance, parenting and the arts. Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional and political colorings. The goal of his book is to show the importance of an honest acknowledgement of human nature based on science and common sense.