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Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism and progress

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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 realizing 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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Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism and progress, Steven Pinker

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Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Penguin Books
Rok vydania
2019
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mäkká
Počet strán
576
ISBN10
0141979097
ISBN13
9780141979090
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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 realizing 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.