具體描述
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.
用戶評價
主旨就是從各方麵花式論證人類在變好，贊美啓濛思想的意義和效果。有的章節論證比較充分令人信服，但是部分章節也很牽強，選擇的數據圖錶都是有利於自己的，反麵觀點就一筆帶過，因果邏輯模糊，所以我還是站在持懷疑態度的一方。閱讀這本書可以增強對人類的信心，減輕悲觀主義，算是一碗科學雞湯。
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
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。
評分##賣弄詞藻，晦澀難懂！
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##Pinker 怒瞭
評分##賣弄詞藻，晦澀難懂！
評分##比上一本angels容易懂的多😂
評分主旨就是從各方麵花式論證人類在變好，贊美啓濛思想的意義和效果。有的章節論證比較充分令人信服，但是部分章節也很牽強，選擇的數據圖錶都是有利於自己的，反麵觀點就一筆帶過，因果邏輯模糊，所以我還是站在持懷疑態度的一方。閱讀這本書可以增強對人類的信心，減輕悲觀主義，算是一碗科學雞湯。
