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Chargement... Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (original 2018; édition 2019)par Steven Pinker (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreEnlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress par Steven Pinker (2018)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. My favorite part was when Pinker used big data and graphs to explain his arguments (even though they all seemed to be taken from the same source, and half of them seemed to be a rehash of what was in his last book before this one). My least favorite part was when he was pontificating all the rest of the time. Un libro de la razón, pensar, reflexionar para llegar a una conclusión o formar juicios de una determinada situación o cosa. Por momentos creo que la defensa cae en la intolerancia de las otras creencias (en la ofensa a los otros pensamientos), siendo alguno de los mismo errores que cometen las otra creencias, creo que parte del humanismo es la tolerancia. Encontrar la forma de poder vivir en paz “todas” las creencia, es el problema a resolver (sin extremismos y humanismo).
Pinker wants the liberal arts to fit inside a STEM-shaped box, and he is happy to resize them with a chainsaw if need be. For Pinker, concepts like narrative and rhetoric wither before objectivity and reason. He emphasizes figures and facts without considering the framing that allows us to interpret them, or the significance of arguments that would challenge them. “Fashionable academic movements like postmodernism and critical theory,” he complains, “hold that reason, truth, and objectivity are social constructions that justify the privilege of dominant groups.” But Pinker does not seriously engage with any of the vast literature on postmodernism and critical theory, apparently assuming that his expertise in psychology and linguistics provides sufficient standing to insert himself into any and every academic conversation. Sixteen years ago, in his book “Blank Slate,” he acknowledged that false conceptions about human nature in unequal societies make it “easy [for the rich] to blame the victim and tolerate inequality.” He allows that if “social status is relative,” then “extreme inequality can make people on the lower rungs of society feel defeated.” He sees real consequences.... But in “Enlightenment Now,” Pinker celebrates inequality as “a harbinger of opportunity.” Observing these differences in his work some 16 years apart, it seems that he has not become the champion of Enlightenment ideas in this respect, but rather has forgotten them without even noticing. Enlightenment Now ... is a dogmatic book that offers an oversimplified, excessively optimistic vision of human history and a starkly technocratic prescription for the human future. It also gives readers the spectacle of a professor at one of the world’s great universities treating serious thinkers with populist contempt. The genre it most closely resembles, with its breezy style, bite-size chapters, and impressive visuals, is not 18th-century philosophie so much as a genre in which Pinker has had copious experience: the TED Talk Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
La 4e de couverture indique : "Pour beaucoup, le monde est au bord du gouffre, menacé par le terrorisme, les guerres, les migrations et les apocalypses. Pourtant, jamais l'humanité n'a vécu une période aussi paisible et heureuse : chiffres à l'appui, ce livre montre que la santé, la prospérité, la sécurité et la paix sont en hausse dans le monde entier. Ce progrès est un legs du siècle des Lumières, animé par des idéaux puissants : la raison, la science et l'humanisme. C'est peut-être le plus grand succès de l'histoire de l'humanité. Cependant, plus que jamais, ces valeurs ont besoin d'une défense vigoureuse. Car le projet des Lumières va à contre-courant de la nature humaine, de ses tendances au tribalisme, à l'autoritarisme et à la pensée magique : autant de biais qui nourrissent les populismes et les dérives religieuses. Steven Pinker remonte aux sources de la peur : les humains sont-ils intrinsèquement irrationnels ? L'avenir est-il menacé par l'épuisement des ressources ? Comment juguler les dangers climatiques ? Avons-nous besoin de la religion pour fonder une morale ? Faut-il avoir peur de l'intelligence artificielle ? Etc. Avec rigueur, profondeur et, souvent, humour, Steven Pinker propose ici un plaidoyer pour la raison, la science et l'humanisme. Ces idéaux sont nécessaires pour relever les défis d'aujourd'hui et avancer sur la voie du progrès. Car le catastrophisme est dangereux pour la démocratie et la coopération mondiale." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Mr. Pinker immerses us in the Age of Enlightenment's principles and varying philosophies, quoting from the movement's various members and arguing for (science, humanism, logic) and against (brands of metaphysics that drift into religion) those ideas and/or our assumptions about them, while citing and praising the many actual results.
For the most part, I liked what the author had to say. Fortified with numerous charts and graphs, he explains all the ways in which mankind is better off, not worse, than it ever was before, despite the prevalent fears engendered by the media and several common failures of cognitive function (such as a tendency to assume that correlation=causation, or an assumption that an anecdote is as strong, evidentially, as statistics---although he often opts for the anecdote to make a point).
I’m guessing that few will agree with every conclusion he comes to, or appreciate the criticisms that are flung left and right . . . though I’d say, most of his sympathies lay with the former, politically speaking.
With a few reservations, all in all, I’d say it’s an enlightening book. 😊
(Narrated by Arthur Morey) ( )