Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and ProgressPenguin, 2018 M02 13 - 576 páginas INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: 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. By the author of the new book, Rationality. 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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... called humanism, the open society, and cosmopolitan or classical liberalism). It's not just that questions like hers regularly appear in my inbox. ("Dear Professor Pinker, What advice do you have for someone who has taken ideas in your ...
... called humanism, the open society, and cosmopolitan or classical liberalism). It's not just that questions like hers regularly appear in my inbox. ("Dear Professor Pinker, What advice do you have for someone who has taken ideas in your ...
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... called on our moral concern. Fortunately, human nature prepares us to answer that call. That is because we are endowed with the sentiment of sympathy, which they also called benevolence, pity, and commiseration. Given that we are ...
... called on our moral concern. Fortunately, human nature prepares us to answer that call. That is because we are endowed with the sentiment of sympathy, which they also called benevolence, pity, and commiseration. Given that we are ...
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... snowflakes, and an efflorescence of flora and fauna, including us. One reason the cosmos is filled with so much interesting stuff is a set of processes called self-organization, which allow circumscribed zones of order ENT Ro, Evo, INFO 17.
... snowflakes, and an efflorescence of flora and fauna, including us. One reason the cosmos is filled with so much interesting stuff is a set of processes called self-organization, which allow circumscribed zones of order ENT Ro, Evo, INFO 17.
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... called self-organization, which allow circumscribed zones of order to emerge. When energy is poured into a system, and the system dissipates that energy in its slide toward entropy, it can become poised in an orderly, indeed beautiful ...
... called self-organization, which allow circumscribed zones of order to emerge. When energy is poured into a system, and the system dissipates that energy in its slide toward entropy, it can become poised in an orderly, indeed beautiful ...
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... called knowledge.” We say that someone knows what a robin is if she thinks the thought "robin" whenever she sees one, and if she can infer that it is a kind of bird which appears in the spring and pulls worms out of the ground. Getting ...
... called knowledge.” We say that someone knows what a robin is if she thinks the thought "robin" whenever she sees one, and if she can infer that it is a kind of bird which appears in the spring and pulls worms out of the ground. Getting ...
Contenido
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HEALTH | 62 |
SUSTENANCE | 68 |
WEALTH | 79 |
zones 19602006 | 227 |
KNOWLEDGE | 233 |
HAPPINESS | 262 |
EXISTENTIAL THREATS | 290 |
THE FUTURE OF PROGRESS | 322 |
REASON SCIENCE AND HUMANISM | 347 |
SCIENCE | 385 |
HUMANISM | 410 |
NEQUALITY | 97 |
THE ENVIRONMENT | 121 |
PEACE | 156 |
SAFETY | 167 |
TERRORISM | 191 |
DEMOCRACY | 199 |
EQUAL RIGHTS | 214 |
NOTES | 455 |
QUALITY OF LIFE 2 47 | 473 |
128 | 491 |
REFERENCES | 493 |
NDEX | 525 |
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