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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##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。

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##我的求生欲真的挺強,剛對人類社會産生巨大失落感,馬上開始高強度閱讀Steven Pinker試圖緩解局勢,重新相信我們在發展進步、世界在變好……具體效果待定,可能要加大馬力來激活我逐漸被掩埋的樂觀主義。 不患寡而不均的思維方式不可取,用發展的角度解決環境問題,民主的代價與價值……還是忍不住聯想到疫情,不知這一場天災人禍之後,世界會如何改變。

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#清風亂翻書 這本,厚瞭點,但還是推薦 尤其當下 我們要堅信明天更美好。 分析框架基於:熱力第二定律 “Entro(熵),evo(進化),info(信息)。這些概念界定瞭人類進步的故事,界定瞭我們誕生其中的悲劇,以及我們奮力獲得更好的生存的方式。”這裏的“entro”錶示熵,即熱...  

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##文/寶木笑 最近,我們每個人最關注的事情就是疫情,我們每天祈禱那些數字能夠降下來,我們為那些勇敢的逆行者和正在承受苦難的同胞淚目,我們力所能及地去做支持自己同胞的事情,我們也防護好自己和傢人,除瞭購買生活必需品,我們都宅在傢裏。宅在傢裏的日子除瞭看書,也會看...  

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