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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.
用戶評價
##賣弄詞藻，晦澀難懂！
評分##有些書難讀，但是讀下來還是能學到一些東西，所以還是值得。這本書文字流暢，但是看完沒覺得有什麼收獲，最多算雞湯，太長，所以是特大的一鍋雞湯！作者對現狀太樂觀，數據的選擇讓人生疑。以後蓋茨推薦的書要等一段時間再讀，水分太多。
評分##astonished. 論文也可以這麼好看有趣信息量巨大
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##Pinker 怒瞭
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##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。
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