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发表于2024-05-20
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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.
跟理性樂觀派屬於同一類型。白左進步人士自嗨的布道書。
評分A great book!
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。
評分賣弄詞藻,晦澀難懂!
評分Pinker 怒瞭
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評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...
Enlightenment Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024