Enlightenment Now

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Steven Pinker
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Viking 2018-2-27 Hardcover 9780525427575

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Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People and one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and The Sense of Style.

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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##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。

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##astonished. 論文也可以這麼好看有趣信息量巨大

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##很難想象,如今我們竟然要為“理性、科學、人文主義和進步”尋找例證。很長時間以來,這些穩固的價值觀定義瞭我們的現代生活。多數人都以為,抨擊這些價值觀的人來自極端右翼分子:他們是進步主義的敵人、是反科學宗教運動的先鋒、是封閉心智的代錶。然而,史蒂芬·平剋(Steve...  

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