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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Página xii
... violence, US, 1993–2014 15-5. Decriminalization of homosexuality, 1791–2016 15-6: Liberal values across time and generations, developed countries, 1980–2005 15-7: Liberal values across time (extrapolated), world's culture zones, 1960 ...
... violence, US, 1993–2014 15-5. Decriminalization of homosexuality, 1791–2016 15-6: Liberal values across time and generations, developed countries, 1980–2005 15-7: Liberal values across time (extrapolated), world's culture zones, 1960 ...
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... violence? But the most arresting question I have ever fielded followed a talk in which I explained the commonplace among scientists that mental life consists of patterns of activity in the tissues of the brain. A student in the audience ...
... violence? But the most arresting question I have ever fielded followed a talk in which I explained the commonplace among scientists that mental life consists of patterns of activity in the tissues of the brain. A student in the audience ...
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... violence but also the secular cruelties of their age, including slavery, despotism, executions for frivolous offenses such as shoplifting and poaching, and sadistic punishments such as flogging, amputation, impalement, disembowelment ...
... violence but also the secular cruelties of their age, including slavery, despotism, executions for frivolous offenses such as shoplifting and poaching, and sadistic punishments such as flogging, amputation, impalement, disembowelment ...
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... violence. Another implication of the Law of Entropy is that a complex system like an organism can easily be disabled, because its functioning depends on so many improbable conditions being satisfied at once. A rock against the head, a ...
... violence. Another implication of the Law of Entropy is that a complex system like an organism can easily be disabled, because its functioning depends on so many improbable conditions being satisfied at once. A rock against the head, a ...
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... violence as moral, not immoral: across the world and throughout history, more people have been murdered to mete out justice than to satisfy greed.” co--> But we're not all bad. Human cognition comes with two features that give it the ...
... violence as moral, not immoral: across the world and throughout history, more people have been murdered to mete out justice than to satisfy greed.” co--> But we're not all bad. Human cognition comes with two features that give it the ...
Contenido
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29 | |
37 | |
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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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