具体描述
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.
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评分##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
评分##我以为是讲证悟，讲的是启蒙思想 ????
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##第一次听完了一本语音书
评分##人类的进步绝对不是误打误撞的奇迹，而是理性在暗夜里英雄主义的抗争。平克也绝非沦于精英主义的自我陶醉，而是恰如其分的阐释启蒙思想这个稀释在几个世纪里的概念的现世意义。
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评分##框架略失望（基本就是《理性乐观派》加《无穷的开始》)；细节闪光点很多，几乎每一节都是一篇短论文；虽然篇幅巨长，但几乎没有废话；平克文笔的确是好啊，全书最后一段总结陈词看得肾上腺素飙出来。
评分##万维刚精英日课2解读 资本主义的逻辑是演化，启蒙的逻辑是理性。你永远都不知道下一个好东西会发生在什么地方 —— 就好像基因突变一样。但是因为你有理性，你一旦看到好东西会识别和使用它 —— 就好像自然选择一样。只要这两个逻辑继续有效，那么启蒙运动三百年来的进步，就会继续进行下去。
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