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A review by bartonstanley
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
4.0
Presents a sound argument that life has improved substantially for most human beings, and that the bulk of that improvement is due to the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment.
If it had focused solely on this argument I would have been tempted to give it five stars. The speculative chapters at the end of Part II are a little too speculative and I found that I had to skip one or two of them.
However, overall I learned a lot and have a much better perspective on the state of the world and the the threats to further improvements in the lives of human beings.
If it had focused solely on this argument I would have been tempted to give it five stars. The speculative chapters at the end of Part II are a little too speculative and I found that I had to skip one or two of them.
However, overall I learned a lot and have a much better perspective on the state of the world and the the threats to further improvements in the lives of human beings.