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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Goldmine Reads
• Release date: Oct 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9788835320753

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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