出版社: Viking
副标题: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
出版年: 2018-2-27
页数: 576
定价: USD 35.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525427575
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 a...
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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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, Th...
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.
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只要“三观”不毁,我们就未来可期:理性和科学的启蒙永不过时

史蒂芬·平克对当前世界进行了全景式的评述,让读者了解人类状况的真相,人类面临怎样的挑战,以及该如何应对这些挑战。他呼吁我们避开惊悚的头条新闻和灰暗的末日预言,相反,用数据说话,平克论证人类的寿命、健康、食物、和平、知识、幸福等都呈向上趋势,这种趋势不仅限于西方,而是遍及全世界。这是启蒙运动的礼物——理性、科学和人文主义促进了人类的进步。
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作者史蒂芬·平克,出生于加拿大蒙特利尔,1979年取得哈佛大学实验心理学博士学位。1994年,他的《语言本能》一经出版,就成为轰动一时的畅销书,并入选《美国科学家》20世纪100本最佳科学书籍。2003年被聘为哈佛大学心理学教授。2008—2013年,被授予哈佛学院荣誉教授头衔。20... (展开)
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0 有用 momo 2019-04-19 23:56:29
astonished. 论文也可以这么好看有趣信息量巨大
0 有用 静卜 2020-03-22 18:23:20
我的求生欲真的挺强,刚对人类社会产生巨大失落感,马上开始高强度阅读Steven Pinker试图缓解局势,重新相信我们在发展进步、世界在变好……具体效果待定,可能要加大马力来激活我逐渐被掩埋的乐观主义。 不患寡而不均的思维方式不可取,用发展的角度解决环境问题,民主的代价与价值……还是忍不住联想到疫情,不知这一场天灾人祸之后,世界会如何改变。
0 有用 Soooph 2019-01-01 08:01:29
我以为是讲证悟,讲的是启蒙思想 😳
0 有用 Jimmy47 2022-10-08 09:54:51 黑龙江
万维刚精英日课2解读 资本主义的逻辑是演化,启蒙的逻辑是理性。你永远都不知道下一个好东西会发生在什么地方 —— 就好像基因突变一样。但是因为你有理性,你一旦看到好东西会识别和使用它 —— 就好像自然选择一样。只要这两个逻辑继续有效,那么启蒙运动三百年来的进步,就会继续进行下去。
0 有用 Chan 2018-09-10 21:49:36
引用了很多Hans Rosling的Factfulness,还不如看那本比较清楚简要。