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发表于2025-03-04
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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.
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.
Blinkist掃過。本來還想去讀原著,現在看來是不必瞭,主旨比較簡單,相信那麼長的書裏應該用瞭很多作證來證明啓濛運動的影響力,讓我們迎來瞭目前人類曆史上技術最先進,物質條件最好的時代,更長的壽命,更健康,更高的生存率,減少(人權)上的不平等,降低暴力提升安全。現在的媒體把這個時代展現得很糟糕且會越來越糟,反智主義和民粹主義盛行。但啓濛思想仍然是未來的路:Reason, Science, Humanism, Progress. 感覺有點雞湯。即使在當下,我們的啓濛又在哪裏呢?會有嗎?
評分I literally read this book while walking because I'm eager to see how bad this book and go. Should never trust a "public intellectual" who publish tons of books with eye-catching titles. Can't judge which one is worse, Enlightenment Now or Sapiens.
評分Pinker論證科學帶來的種種好處:更長的壽命,更少貧窮,更豐富的物質享受,更和平(主要指國傢級戰爭更少),更多民主(主要更多國傢選擇民主政體),教育更普及(主要是文盲更少)。單子很長,世界確實有實實在在變化。可福柯的生命政治視閾下的現代人,也有類似的趨勢。pinker提到福柯,為什麼不認真論證,打倒福柯,證明“數世紀的科學知識發展以及其帶來的好處,背後是沒有站著個'權力'的”,呢?(這是疑問句,不是反問句)反而花瞭那麼多精力去評判宗教生活(這種評判標準當然是上麵科學帶來的那些好處啦),還花那麼大篇幅想論證尼采是自大狂和納粹分子。關鍵對手都避開,然後復述那些老掉牙的偏見,難怪書那麼長。
評分我的求生欲真的挺強,剛對人類社會産生巨大失落感,馬上開始高強度閱讀Steven Pinker試圖緩解局勢,重新相信我們在發展進步、世界在變好……具體效果待定,可能要加大馬力來激活我逐漸被掩埋的樂觀主義。 不患寡而不均的思維方式不可取,用發展的角度解決環境問題,民主的代價與價值……還是忍不住聯想到疫情,不知這一場天災人禍之後,世界會如何改變。
評分Pinker 怒瞭
感觉平克是有一些问题的。读的时候就意识到了,现在这种感觉更清楚了。 一、判断力 科学不是绝对正确的,科学是去接近正确的方法。这一点并没有异议,但平克并没有继续强调相反方向的困难:对于那些用惯了不科学的方法认识世界、过生活的人来讲,科学方法也是很难掌握的。比如...
評分书很厚实,觉得值100多块钱。但是当我翻了翻后发现,这书的1/3都是译者的注释。更荒谬的是这个湛庐文化竟然在里边打了多页的广告。我也是醉醉的了,突然好影响我对这书的期待了。 还是很期待内容能给我一些冲击,至于这书的其他第一视角的感触,已经让我失望了,曾经真的是抱着...
評分从进化心理学的角度,人总是更关注于潜在的危险远胜于可获得的收益。害怕眼前的痛苦,远胜于未来的欢娱。喜欢眼前的就能收获的果实,而不想得到未来更多的财富。失去的痛苦,远胜于得到的快乐。 凡是注重于危险,关注于当下的问题的人,才能更好的生存到现在。 譬如说,你注意...
評分书名中的“启蒙”,指的是启蒙运动的启蒙。作者指出,当前西方的反启蒙运动比较盛行,一个表现是民粹主义,他们反对理性、科学,认为世界在变糟糕,科学走的太快了,需要停下来反思。 作者对反启蒙运动给出了有力的反驳,用许多图表和数据证明世界在变好,理性和科学会让世界变...
評分号称当代最伟大思想家,其实我不知道伟大在哪,但这本书确实是不错的好书。 此书为理性、科学、人文主义和进步辩护,整理了大量数据,论证了当前世界因理性、科学和人文主义取得了长足进步。比如:寿命延长、传染病得到有效控制、食物充足、财富增长、福利支出庞大、战争动乱减...
Enlightenment Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025