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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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##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##Pinker論證科學帶來的種種好處：更長的壽命，更少貧窮，更豐富的物質享受，更和平（主要指國傢級戰爭更少），更多民主（主要更多國傢選擇民主政體），教育更普及（主要是文盲更少）。單子很長，世界確實有實實在在變化。可福柯的生命政治視閾下的現代人，也有類似的趨勢。pinker提到福柯，為什麼不認真論證，打倒福柯，證明“數世紀的科學知識發展以及其帶來的好處，背後是沒有站著個'權力'的”，呢？（這是疑問句，不是反問句）反而花瞭那麼多精力去評判宗教生活（這種評判標準當然是上麵科學帶來的那些好處啦），還花那麼大篇幅想論證尼采是自大狂和納粹分子。關鍵對手都避開，然後復述那些老掉牙的偏見，難怪書那麼長。
評分##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##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分##Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
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##比上一本angels容易懂的多????
評分##真的是一本很神奇的書，神奇在於開始看的時候就知道主題是論證世界變得更好，不過就是堆積數據來論證罷瞭，結果看完之後像被洗腦一樣，堅信世界會越來越好，我們處於最好的時代，而且作者文筆真不錯，知識範圍廣，能感受到文字的力量。
評分##Pinker 怒瞭
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