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.
##賣弄詞藻,晦澀難懂!
評分##Pinker 怒瞭
評分##萬維剛精英日課2解讀 資本主義的邏輯是演化,啓濛的邏輯是理性。你永遠都不知道下一個好東西會發生在什麼地方 —— 就好像基因突變一樣。但是因為你有理性,你一旦看到好東西會識彆和使用它 —— 就好像自然選擇一樣。隻要這兩個邏輯繼續有效,那麼啓濛運動三百年來的進步,就會繼續進行下去。
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##賣弄詞藻,晦澀難懂!
評分##Pinker論證科學帶來的種種好處:更長的壽命,更少貧窮,更豐富的物質享受,更和平(主要指國傢級戰爭更少),更多民主(主要更多國傢選擇民主政體),教育更普及(主要是文盲更少)。單子很長,世界確實有實實在在變化。可福柯的生命政治視閾下的現代人,也有類似的趨勢。pinker提到福柯,為什麼不認真論證,打倒福柯,證明“數世紀的科學知識發展以及其帶來的好處,背後是沒有站著個'權力'的”,呢?(這是疑問句,不是反問句)反而花瞭那麼多精力去評判宗教生活(這種評判標準當然是上麵科學帶來的那些好處啦),還花那麼大篇幅想論證尼采是自大狂和納粹分子。關鍵對手都避開,然後復述那些老掉牙的偏見,難怪書那麼長。
評分##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##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##我以為是講證悟,講的是啓濛思想 ????
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