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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... decline. The Romantic movement pushed back particularly hard against Enlightenment ideals. Rousseau, Johann Herder, Friedrich Schelling, and others denied that reason could be separated from emotion, that individuals could be considered ...
... decline. The Romantic movement pushed back particularly hard against Enlightenment ideals. Rousseau, Johann Herder, Friedrich Schelling, and others denied that reason could be separated from emotion, that individuals could be considered ...
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... decline and on the verge of collapse. In The Idea of Decline in Western History, the historian Arthur Herman recounts two centuries of doomsayers who have sounded the alarm of racial, cultural, political, or ecological degeneration ...
... decline and on the verge of collapse. In The Idea of Decline in Western History, the historian Arthur Herman recounts two centuries of doomsayers who have sounded the alarm of racial, cultural, political, or ecological degeneration ...
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... declined over the course of history. To emphasize that the declines took place at different times and had different causes ... decline of great-power and interstate war after World War II. Following the end of the Cold War, the world has ...
... declined over the course of history. To emphasize that the declines took place at different times and had different causes ... decline of great-power and interstate war after World War II. Following the end of the Cold War, the world has ...
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... declined linearly since the beginning of history! Awesome! No, not “linearly"—it would be astonishing if any measure ... declines, and report every uptick (since, after all, it's "news"), readers will come away with theimpression that ...
... declined linearly since the beginning of history! Awesome! No, not “linearly"—it would be astonishing if any measure ... declines, and report every uptick (since, after all, it's "news"), readers will come away with theimpression that ...
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... decline even further; if they don't, it won't. That makes it important to find out what the causes are, so we can try to intensify them and apply them more widely to ensure that the decline of violence continues. To say that violence ...
... decline even further; if they don't, it won't. That makes it important to find out what the causes are, so we can try to intensify them and apply them more widely to ensure that the decline of violence continues. To say that violence ...
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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