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
##看過覺得心態稍微好一點，但是最近疫情洗禮得，感覺又要抑鬱瞭，真的是，越看新聞越抑鬱
評分##在英語寫作上，Pinker是一流的。但在政治議題上，作為一個典型的globalist，他的觀點天真，甚至愚蠢。Pinker對於“科學”有著近乎宗教般的虔誠，但是所謂科學，隻是當前人類對於世界的理解，而這個理解是局限的，並不一定是絕對真理。曆史已經反復證明瞭，前人的“科學”會不斷地被後人的發現推翻。
評分##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。
評分##我以為是講證悟，講的是啓濛思想 😳
評分##框架略失望（基本就是《理性樂觀派》加《無窮的開始》)；細節閃光點很多，幾乎每一節都是一篇短論文；雖然篇幅巨長，但幾乎沒有廢話；平剋文筆的確是好啊，全書最後一段總結陳詞看得腎上腺素飆齣來。
評分##萬維剛精英日課2解讀 資本主義的邏輯是演化，啓濛的邏輯是理性。你永遠都不知道下一個好東西會發生在什麼地方 —— 就好像基因突變一樣。但是因為你有理性，你一旦看到好東西會識彆和使用它 —— 就好像自然選擇一樣。隻要這兩個邏輯繼續有效，那麼啓濛運動三百年來的進步，就會繼續進行下去。
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##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##10/12/2020 實體 針尖上的綉花圖，站不住，精美但是沒有理論骨架。高中作文高級版。 詳細的評價下次再寫把。 蓋茨推薦也說明不瞭什麼。
