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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... peaceful, healthy, and prosperous." —Yuval Noah Harari, The Guardian (UK) “Pinker is ahead of his critics... To accuse him of smugly sipping cocktails at the End of History café is simply to ignore his repeated calls to work for the ...
... peaceful, healthy, and prosperous." —Yuval Noah Harari, The Guardian (UK) “Pinker is ahead of his critics... To accuse him of smugly sipping cocktails at the End of History café is simply to ignore his repeated calls to work for the ...
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... LIFE 6. HEALTH 7. SUSTENANCE 8. WEALTH 9. [NEQUALITY 10. THE ENVIRONMENT 11. PEACE 12. SAFETY 13. TERRORISM 14. DEMOCRACY 15. EQUAL RIGHTS 16. KNOWLEDGE 17. QUALITY OF LIFE 37 39 53 62 68 79 97 121 156 167 191 199 214 233 2.47.
... LIFE 6. HEALTH 7. SUSTENANCE 8. WEALTH 9. [NEQUALITY 10. THE ENVIRONMENT 11. PEACE 12. SAFETY 13. TERRORISM 14. DEMOCRACY 15. EQUAL RIGHTS 16. KNOWLEDGE 17. QUALITY OF LIFE 37 39 53 62 68 79 97 121 156 167 191 199 214 233 2.47.
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... peace. History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so, and you can help to continue that progress. Explaining the meaning of life is not in ...
... peace. History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so, and you can help to continue that progress. Explaining the meaning of life is not in ...
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... peace. War was so common in history that it was natural to seeitas a permanent part of the human condition and to think peace could come only in a messianic age. But now war was no longer thought of as a divine punishment to be endured ...
... peace. War was so common in history that it was natural to seeitas a permanent part of the human condition and to think peace could come only in a messianic age. But now war was no longer thought of as a divine punishment to be endured ...
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... peace and prosperity were desirable ends. A human is a part of an organic whole—a culture, race, nation, religion, spirit, or historical force—and people should creatively channel the transcendent unity of which they are a part. Heroic ...
... peace and prosperity were desirable ends. A human is a part of an organic whole—a culture, race, nation, religion, spirit, or historical force—and people should creatively channel the transcendent unity of which they are a part. Heroic ...
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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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