Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People and one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and The Sense of Style.
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.
##万维刚精英日课2解读 资本主义的逻辑是演化,启蒙的逻辑是理性。你永远都不知道下一个好东西会发生在什么地方 —— 就好像基因突变一样。但是因为你有理性,你一旦看到好东西会识别和使用它 —— 就好像自然选择一样。只要这两个逻辑继续有效,那么启蒙运动三百年来的进步,就会继续进行下去。
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评分 评分 评分 评分##断断续续用了很长时间地翻看完,我对这本书的感情真的复杂至极。一方面在翻看的这些日子我知道很多糟糕透顶的事,而这本书绝大部分用各种主题描绘着“进步的当下”,可这丝毫没有平息我的愤怒和难过,徒增不耐烦罢了;另一方面我想我是明白作者所提倡的启蒙,我也接受用理性和...
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