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发表于2024-05-09
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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.
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.
I literally read this book while walking because I'm eager to see how bad this book and go. Should never trust a "public intellectual" who publish tons of books with eye-catching titles. Can't judge which one is worse, Enlightenment Now or Sapiens.
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
评分个人年度最佳,无限启发,无限治愈,最后讨论理性,科学,人文主义的几章尤佳,批福柯和尼采的两处真是痛快极了!
评分跟理性乐观派属于同一类型。白左进步人士自嗨的布道书。
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评分 评分继续呐喊 ——我们为什么应该读一读这本书 这是一本挺厚的书。正文大约500页,每页大约900字,四五十万字的内容,逐字逐句地读一遍,对于大多数愿意读书或有读书习惯的人,一定是个不小的劳动。当然,读完了这劳动也就转化成了收获。 这是一本很卖力气的书。首先作者圈的题目实...
评分平克的新书《当下的启蒙》里,一个主要的结论就是,从许多层面来看,我们的世界都真的变好了。 平克引用了大量数据,从16个方面,详细地剖析了这个世界的进步趋势。 比如说,从人类生存的基础层面来看,全球人均寿命从19世纪中期的30岁,增长到了现在的70岁;医疗卫生条件大幅...
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