Thursday, 15 April 2021

New Optimism?

2021 Steven Pinker and the Failure of New Optimism ft. We're in Hell - Unlearning > .
2018 Libertarianism = marginal idea, not universal value | Steven Pinker | Big Think > .

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress; shows our progress with data that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide; and explains the cognitive science of why this progress should be appreciated. It is a follow-up to Pinker's 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.

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