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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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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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