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.
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.
發表於2024-05-09
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斷斷續續用瞭很長時間地翻看完,我對這本書的感情真的復雜至極。一方麵在翻看的這些日子我知道很多糟糕透頂的事,而這本書絕大部分用各種主題描繪著“進步的當下”,可這絲毫沒有平息我的憤怒和難過,徒增不耐煩罷瞭;另一方麵我想我是明白作者所提倡的啓濛,我也接受用理性和...
評分號稱當代最偉大思想傢,其實我不知道偉大在哪,但這本書確實是不錯的好書。 此書為理性、科學、人文主義和進步辯護,整理瞭大量數據,論證瞭當前世界因理性、科學和人文主義取得瞭長足進步。比如:壽命延長、傳染病得到有效控製、食物充足、財富增長、福利支齣龐大、戰爭動亂減...
評分繼續呐喊 ——我們為什麼應該讀一讀這本書 這是一本挺厚的書。正文大約500頁,每頁大約900字,四五十萬字的內容,逐字逐句地讀一遍,對於大多數願意讀書或有讀書習慣的人,一定是個不小的勞動。當然,讀完瞭這勞動也就轉化成瞭收獲。 這是一本很賣力氣的書。首先作者圈的題目實...
評分尚未啓濛的思考 斯蒂芬·平剋令人尷尬的新書不過是一篇寫給慌亂中的自由主義者的孱弱布道詞 譯者的話 《今日的啓濛》(Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress) 是當代著名認知科學傢和公共知識分子,哈佛大學教授斯蒂芬·平剋(Steven Pin...
評分一 我記得有一個稱呼,叫“文科傻妞”。意思是,這些妞缺乏最基本的邏輯思維能力。這剛好對應最近有一個人錶示,是那些文科生沒有思考能力被人忽悠支持香港。很不幸,我現在搞社會學,也是一個文科傻X,但是不是妞。我忍不住停下來想,我是一個男的和女的有什麼區彆?無異,平...
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The best way to stay optimistic is to read the sermon of doomsayers
評分人類的進步絕對不是誤打誤撞的奇跡,而是理性在暗夜裏英雄主義的抗爭。平剋也絕非淪於精英主義的自我陶醉,而是恰如其分的闡釋啓濛思想這個稀釋在幾個世紀裏的概念的現世意義。
評分主旨就是從各方麵花式論證人類在變好,贊美啓濛思想的意義和效果。有的章節論證比較充分令人信服,但是部分章節也很牽強,選擇的數據圖錶都是有利於自己的,反麵觀點就一筆帶過,因果邏輯模糊,所以我還是站在持懷疑態度的一方。閱讀這本書可以增強對人類的信心,減輕悲觀主義,算是一碗科學雞湯。
評分第一次聽完瞭一本語音書
評分A great book!
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