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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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##astonished. 論文也可以這麼好看有趣信息量巨大
評分##引用瞭很多Hans Rosling的Factfulness，還不如看那本比較清楚簡要。
評分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##astonished. 論文也可以這麼好看有趣信息量巨大
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##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##此書可以顛覆人們關於自身處境和當前人類境況的錯誤觀點與感性判斷。作者對於人類的現在和未來，抱持鮮明且有理有據的樂觀態度。用數據和事實證明，當今這個時代，是人類曆史上最好的時代。不隻是比曆史好一點，而是好很多。不隻是在某幾個方麵，遠超以往的時代。而是在幾乎所有方麵，都優於過去。這一切進步和成就，源於對啓濛運動核心觀念的踐行：理性、科學、人文主義。這些觀念和價值，需要通過新一輪啓濛運動來捍衛並發揚。它們是人類及每位個體解決自身所麵臨的問題的終極武器。
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