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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.
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##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##萬維剛精英日課2解讀 資本主義的邏輯是演化，啓濛的邏輯是理性。你永遠都不知道下一個好東西會發生在什麼地方 —— 就好像基因突變一樣。但是因為你有理性，你一旦看到好東西會識彆和使用它 —— 就好像自然選擇一樣。隻要這兩個邏輯繼續有效，那麼啓濛運動三百年來的進步，就會繼續進行下去。
評分##Pinker 怒瞭
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##在英語寫作上，Pinker是一流的。但在政治議題上，作為一個典型的globalist，他的觀點天真，甚至愚蠢。Pinker對於“科學”有著近乎宗教般的虔誠，但是所謂科學，隻是當前人類對於世界的理解，而這個理解是局限的，並不一定是絕對真理。曆史已經反復證明瞭，前人的“科學”會不斷地被後人的發現推翻。
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##Pinker 怒瞭
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