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Enlightenment Now

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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By: Steven Pinker
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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Is 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 into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide.

Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. The challenges we face today are formidable. But the 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 other problems in the past. This is the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century.

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Reviews

My new favourite book of all time (Bill Gates)
Exhilarating, magnificent, uplifting
This is the biggest story of our time. It's about the many ways in which the world is improving, and why we don't believe it (Fraser Nelson)
Pinker is right. Not just a bit right, but completely, utterly, incontrovertibly right ... for most people, life is better, even if they don't realise it (Dominic Sandbrook)
Awesome. The confidence with which Pinker tears through the issues that cause such deep anxiety today is compelling (William Davies)
A characteristically fluent, decisive and data-rich demonstration of why, given the chance to live at any point in human history, only a stone-cold idiot would choose any time other than the present (Sam Leith)
A new, optimistic view of the world ... Things are not as bad as your Facebook news feed makes them seem ... a cheerful, contrarian tract for dark times (Niall Ferguson)
A goldmine of startling graphs and killer facts about the way we live now. Everyone should read this book and, just for once, be enthralled by what humankind has achieved (Iain Macwhirter)
Brimming with surprising data and entertaining anecdotes ... a genuinely enlightening book (Jan-Werner Müller)
Today we are living healthier, wealthier lives - and it's thanks to the values of the Enlightenment ... a passionate book in praise of Enlightenment values (David Aaronovitch)
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Interesting book which give the elements to have a critical mind and not be subject to assumptions.

Great book to cultivate its critical mind

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J'ai obtenu ce livre audio gratuitement auprès d'audible, sur conseil de mon beau frère, à qui j'ai parlé du livre pour un cadeau.

Après cette première écoute, clairement, je veux faire de la prise de note intensive sur une deuxième écoute.

Mr. Bill GATES a dit que c'est son nouveau meilleur livre de tous les temps et en effet, le contenu est incroyable.

Sommes nous des consommateurs de l'information défaitiste ou sommes nous des producteurs de la joie de vivre dans un monde qui n'a jamais été meilleur ?

Avec plaisir, je vais écouter une deuxième fois pour une prise de notes mémorable.

Ce livre, c'est l'évolution retracée,si chère à Darwin.

Cordialement.

José

Un livre audio exceptionnel ! Âmes sensibles, non

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I never tought to apply scientific methods to this kind of subjects. I'm glad that the author did. It's eye opening.

Enlightening

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