具體描述
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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##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##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##人類的進步絕對不是誤打誤撞的奇跡，而是理性在暗夜裏英雄主義的抗爭。平剋也絕非淪於精英主義的自我陶醉，而是恰如其分的闡釋啓濛思想這個稀釋在幾個世紀裏的概念的現世意義。
評分##astonished. 論文也可以這麼好看有趣信息量巨大
評分##真的是一本很神奇的書，神奇在於開始看的時候就知道主題是論證世界變得更好，不過就是堆積數據來論證罷瞭，結果看完之後像被洗腦一樣，堅信世界會越來越好，我們處於最好的時代，而且作者文筆真不錯，知識範圍廣，能感受到文字的力量。
評分##Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
評分##框架略失望（基本就是《理性樂觀派》加《無窮的開始》)；細節閃光點很多，幾乎每一節都是一篇短論文；雖然篇幅巨長，但幾乎沒有廢話；平剋文筆的確是好啊，全書最後一段總結陳詞看得腎上腺素飆齣來。
評分##Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
評分##Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
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