具体描述
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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##astonished. 论文也可以这么好看有趣信息量巨大
评分##人类的进步绝对不是误打误撞的奇迹，而是理性在暗夜里英雄主义的抗争。平克也绝非沦于精英主义的自我陶醉，而是恰如其分的阐释启蒙思想这个稀释在几个世纪里的概念的现世意义。
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##引用了很多Hans Rosling的Factfulness，还不如看那本比较清楚简要。
评分##卖弄词藻，晦涩难懂！
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##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##Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
评分##astonished. 论文也可以这么好看有趣信息量巨大
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