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.
##很难想象,如今我们竟然要为“理性、科学、人文主义和进步”寻找例证。很长时间以来,这些稳固的价值观定义了我们的现代生活。多数人都以为,抨击这些价值观的人来自极端右翼分子:他们是进步主义的敌人、是反科学宗教运动的先锋、是封闭心智的代表。然而,史蒂芬·平克(Steve...
评分 评分##astonished. 论文也可以这么好看有趣信息量巨大
评分##在英语写作上,Pinker是一流的。但在政治议题上,作为一个典型的globalist,他的观点天真,甚至愚蠢。Pinker对于“科学”有着近乎宗教般的虔诚,但是所谓科学,只是当前人类对于世界的理解,而这个理解是局限的,并不一定是绝对真理。历史已经反复证明了,前人的“科学”会不断地被后人的发现推翻。
评分 评分##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。
评分 评分##一 我记得有一个称呼,叫“文科傻妞”。意思是,这些妞缺乏最基本的逻辑思维能力。这刚好对应最近有一个人表示,是那些文科生没有思考能力被人忽悠支持香港。很不幸,我现在搞社会学,也是一个文科傻X,但是不是妞。我忍不住停下来想,我是一个男的和女的有什么区别?无异,平...
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