Enlightenment now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress [Audiobook] download free by Steven Pinker
- Listen audiobook: Enlightenment now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Author: Steven Pinker
- Release date: 2018/12/30
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780241337011
- Rating: 7.44 of 10
- Votes: 294
- Review by: Brayden Leclair
- Review rating: 9.6 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/9
- Duration: 7H10M47S in 256 kbps (115.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, FLAC, WAV, MP3, AIFF (compression XZ, TAR.LZO, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 576
- Includes a PDF summary of 61 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 44M33S (12.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Oneof the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront usIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking intochaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, morepeaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons. Butthe way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved otherproblems in the past. In making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitablycome with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy Of Science, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 22.31 USD
- Dimensions: 153x234x32mm
- Weight: 637g
- Printed by: ALLEN LANE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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