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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.
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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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从进化心理学的角度，人总是更关注于潜在的危险远胜于可获得的收益。害怕眼前的痛苦，远胜于未来的欢娱。喜欢眼前的就能收获的果实，而不想得到未来更多的财富。失去的痛苦，远胜于得到的快乐。 凡是注重于危险，关注于当下的问题的人，才能更好的生存到现在。 譬如说，你注意...
评分书名中的“启蒙”，指的是启蒙运动的启蒙。作者指出，当前西方的反启蒙运动比较盛行，一个表现是民粹主义，他们反对理性、科学，认为世界在变糟糕，科学走的太快了，需要停下来反思。 作者对反启蒙运动给出了有力的反驳，用许多图表和数据证明世界在变好，理性和科学会让世界变...
评分那是一个再普通不过的夜晚，我躺在床上，打开了这本书，仅仅是看完了前两页，我就忍不住分享内心的兴奋，向身边的男朋友喊到：这本书太适合我了！简直是量身为我定制！ 说完我就继续埋头看书了。直到看完这本书，我不得不说，它正是我一直以来寻找的那本书。 理性，科学，人文...
评分 评分号称当代最伟大思想家，其实我不知道伟大在哪，但这本书确实是不错的好书。 此书为理性、科学、人文主义和进步辩护，整理了大量数据，论证了当前世界因理性、科学和人文主义取得了长足进步。比如:寿命延长、传染病得到有效控制、食物充足、财富增长、福利支出庞大、战争动乱减...
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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The best way to stay optimistic is to read the sermon of doomsayers
评分Pinker论证科学带来的种种好处：更长的寿命，更少贫穷，更丰富的物质享受，更和平（主要指国家级战争更少），更多民主（主要更多国家选择民主政体），教育更普及（主要是文盲更少）。单子很长，世界确实有实实在在变化。可福柯的生命政治视阈下的现代人，也有类似的趋势。pinker提到福柯，为什么不认真论证，打倒福柯，证明“数世纪的科学知识发展以及其带来的好处，背后是没有站着个'权力'的”，呢？（这是疑问句，不是反问句）反而花了那么多精力去评判宗教生活（这种评判标准当然是上面科学带来的那些好处啦），还花那么大篇幅想论证尼采是自大狂和纳粹分子。关键对手都避开，然后复述那些老掉牙的偏见，难怪书那么长。
评分Pinker 怒了
评分啰嗦，缺乏逻辑
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