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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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##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##真的是一本很神奇的书，神奇在于开始看的时候就知道主题是论证世界变得更好，不过就是堆积数据来论证罢了，结果看完之后像被洗脑一样，坚信世界会越来越好，我们处于最好的时代，而且作者文笔真不错，知识范围广，能感受到文字的力量。
评分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
评分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
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##astonished. 论文也可以这么好看有趣信息量巨大
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##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。
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