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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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##我的求生欲真的挺强，刚对人类社会产生巨大失落感，马上开始高强度阅读Steven Pinker试图缓解局势，重新相信我们在发展进步、世界在变好……具体效果待定，可能要加大马力来激活我逐渐被掩埋的乐观主义。 不患寡而不均的思维方式不可取，用发展的角度解决环境问题，民主的代价与价值……还是忍不住联想到疫情，不知这一场天灾人祸之后，世界会如何改变。
评分##框架略失望（基本就是《理性乐观派》加《无穷的开始》)；细节闪光点很多，几乎每一节都是一篇短论文；虽然篇幅巨长，但几乎没有废话；平克文笔的确是好啊，全书最后一段总结陈词看得肾上腺素飙出来。
评分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
评分##万维刚精英日课2解读 资本主义的逻辑是演化，启蒙的逻辑是理性。你永远都不知道下一个好东西会发生在什么地方 —— 就好像基因突变一样。但是因为你有理性，你一旦看到好东西会识别和使用它 —— 就好像自然选择一样。只要这两个逻辑继续有效，那么启蒙运动三百年来的进步，就会继续进行下去。
评分##有些书难读，但是读下来还是能学到一些东西，所以还是值得。这本书文字流畅，但是看完没觉得有什么收获，最多算鸡汤，太长，所以是特大的一锅鸡汤！作者对现状太乐观，数据的选择让人生疑。以后盖茨推荐的书要等一段时间再读，水分太多。
评分##10/12/2020 实体 针尖上的绣花图，站不住，精美但是没有理论骨架。高中作文高级版。 详细的评价下次再写把。 盖茨推荐也说明不了什么。
评分##Pinker 怒了
评分##看过觉得心态稍微好一点，但是最近疫情洗礼得，感觉又要抑郁了，真的是，越看新闻越抑郁
评分##真的是一本很神奇的书，神奇在于开始看的时候就知道主题是论证世界变得更好，不过就是堆积数据来论证罢了，结果看完之后像被洗脑一样，坚信世界会越来越好，我们处于最好的时代，而且作者文笔真不错，知识范围广，能感受到文字的力量。
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