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- Herausgeber: Goldmine Reads
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
The world is ending soon—or is it?
Has progression truly become a far-fetched possibility for us? Steven Pinker, distinguished cognitive psychologist and author thinks otherwise. Indeed, the problems that we are facing today are becoming more and more dreadful; but we have also conquered our primitive and ill-advised problem-solving approaches.
In this book, Pinker stresses that Enlightenment’s ideal of using science and reason over the impractical and perilous implications of excessively idealistic, religious and political beliefs has been instrumental in unlocking numerous advancements in economic growth, healthcare, food security, science and technology, safety and solidarity among nations. Backed by seventy-five comprehensive graphs, this book exhibits how intellectual reasoning and deduction, along with the significant improvements in technology, research and education, have proven that now is the best time to be alive.
Check out Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and discover how its ideals are the key to continuously improving our lives.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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ENLIGHTENMENT NOW
Summarized for Busy People
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Based on the Book by Steven Pinker
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TABLE OF CONTENT
ENLIGHTENMENT NOW
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT
Chapter 1: Dare to Understand!
Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info
PART II: PROGRESS
Chapter 3: Counter-Enlightenments
Chapter 4: Progressophobia
Chapter 5: Life
Chapter 6: Health
Chapter 7: Sustenance
Chapter 8: Wealth
Chapter 9: Inequality
Chapter 10: The Environment
Chapter 11: Peace
Chapter 12: Safety
Chapter 13: Terrorism
Chapter 14: Democracy
Chapter 15: Equal Rights
Chapter 16: Knowledge
Chapter 17: Quality of Life
Chapter 18: Happiness
Chapter 19: Existential Threats
Chapter 20: The Future of Progress
PART III: REASON, SCIENCE, AND HUMANISM
Chapter 21: Reason
Chapter 22: Science
Chapter 23: Humanism
CONCLUSION
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steven Pinker was born on 1954 in Montreal, Quebec. He is of Canadian-American descent. Although his grandparents were natives of Romania and Poland, they both immigrated to Canada in 1926 and owned a modest factory of neckties in Montreal. Steven grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. His father, Harry Pinker, was a lawyer. His mother, Roslyn Pinker, was a home maker at first but became a guidance counselor and high school vice principal later on. Robert, his younger brother, works for the Canadian government as a policy analyst; while Susan, his youngest sister, is a psychologist who authored the book, The Sexual Paradox and The Village Effect.
Career-wise, Pinker is a world-renowned cognitive psychologist, linguist and author of books that depicts subjects related to popular science. Known at Harvard University’s Department of Psychology as the Johnstone Family Professor, his specialization in the field of psychology lies in psycholinguistics and visual cognition. He is likewise recognized for advocating evolutionary psychology.
Pinker is passionate when it comes to discussing and debating about how science has influenced modern society. In fact, he came to the defense of Harvard University’s president, Lawrence Summers, after the latter enraged faculty members with his comments on gender gap in science and math.
In 2004, he was included in Time’s 100 most influential people. He received the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association in 1984 for his research in cognitive psychology. Among the numerous awards that Pinker received include honorary doctorates and recognitions given by universities of McGill, Newcastle, Simon Fraser, Surrey and Tel Aviv.
Steven Pinker is a frequent contributor for The New Republic, The New York Times and Time. He has published a number of bestsellers, including The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999), and The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002).
His 16th book is Enlightenment Now, followed by The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY
The summary enables readers to go through the key points of Steven Pinker’s book. Each of the chapter’s gist is simplified and broken down into bite-sized information, making it possible for audiences to have a better understanding of Enlightenment’s principles even when on-the-go.
This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
INTRODUCTION
Steven Pinker enumerates the major reasons behind he has decided to work on and publish a book with the ideals of Enlightenment as its focal point. His main motives are as follows:
Enlightenment ideals define the reason for living.
Discussing enlightenment ideals is a must especially in today’s time
The ideals of enlightenment, rooted in the values of progress, reason and science, are positive and suitable.
The present time is the best time to preserve and apply the said ideals.
All the ideals of enlightenment are the causes of progression in all areas of human society. This means that the enlightenment principles should not be taken lightly.
