The follow-up to Pinker’s groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature–tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking–which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.
With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
##引用了很多Hans Rosling的Factfulness,还不如看那本比较清楚简要。
评分##Pinker论证科学带来的种种好处:更长的寿命,更少贫穷,更丰富的物质享受,更和平(主要指国家级战争更少),更多民主(主要更多国家选择民主政体),教育更普及(主要是文盲更少)。单子很长,世界确实有实实在在变化。可福柯的生命政治视阈下的现代人,也有类似的趋势。pinker提到福柯,为什么不认真论证,打倒福柯,证明“数世纪的科学知识发展以及其带来的好处,背后是没有站着个'权力'的”,呢?(这是疑问句,不是反问句)反而花了那么多精力去评判宗教生活(这种评判标准当然是上面科学带来的那些好处啦),还花那么大篇幅想论证尼采是自大狂和纳粹分子。关键对手都避开,然后复述那些老掉牙的偏见,难怪书那么长。
评分主旨就是从各方面花式论证人类在变好,赞美启蒙思想的意义和效果。有的章节论证比较充分令人信服,但是部分章节也很牵强,选择的数据图表都是有利于自己的,反面观点就一笔带过,因果逻辑模糊,所以我还是站在持怀疑态度的一方。阅读这本书可以增强对人类的信心,减轻悲观主义,算是一碗科学鸡汤。
评分##看过觉得心态稍微好一点,但是最近疫情洗礼得,感觉又要抑郁了,真的是,越看新闻越抑郁
评分##我以为是讲证悟,讲的是启蒙思想 ????
评分##第一次听完了一本语音书
评分##框架略失望(基本就是《理性乐观派》加《无穷的开始》);细节闪光点很多,几乎每一节都是一篇短论文;虽然篇幅巨长,但几乎没有废话;平克文笔的确是好啊,全书最后一段总结陈词看得肾上腺素飙出来。
评分主旨就是从各方面花式论证人类在变好,赞美启蒙思想的意义和效果。有的章节论证比较充分令人信服,但是部分章节也很牵强,选择的数据图表都是有利于自己的,反面观点就一笔带过,因果逻辑模糊,所以我还是站在持怀疑态度的一方。阅读这本书可以增强对人类的信心,减轻悲观主义,算是一碗科学鸡汤。
评分主旨就是从各方面花式论证人类在变好,赞美启蒙思想的意义和效果。有的章节论证比较充分令人信服,但是部分章节也很牵强,选择的数据图表都是有利于自己的,反面观点就一笔带过,因果逻辑模糊,所以我还是站在持怀疑态度的一方。阅读这本书可以增强对人类的信心,减轻悲观主义,算是一碗科学鸡汤。
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