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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.
用戶評價
##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##賣弄詞藻，晦澀難懂！
評分##賣弄詞藻，晦澀難懂！
評分##Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
評分##10/12/2020 實體 針尖上的綉花圖，站不住，精美但是沒有理論骨架。高中作文高級版。 詳細的評價下次再寫把。 蓋茨推薦也說明不瞭什麼。
評分##此書可以顛覆人們關於自身處境和當前人類境況的錯誤觀點與感性判斷。作者對於人類的現在和未來，抱持鮮明且有理有據的樂觀態度。用數據和事實證明，當今這個時代，是人類曆史上最好的時代。不隻是比曆史好一點，而是好很多。不隻是在某幾個方麵，遠超以往的時代。而是在幾乎所有方麵，都優於過去。這一切進步和成就，源於對啓濛運動核心觀念的踐行：理性、科學、人文主義。這些觀念和價值，需要通過新一輪啓濛運動來捍衛並發揚。它們是人類及每位個體解決自身所麵臨的問題的終極武器。
評分##引用瞭很多Hans Rosling的Factfulness，還不如看那本比較清楚簡要。
評分##Pinker 怒瞭
評分##第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
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