Pinker isn't arguing that everything is perfect; rather, he insists that problems are inevitable, but they are through human ingenuity. The book serves as a "call to arms" for readers to defend rational thought against cynicism and fatalism [1, 2]. Metadata for the .epub Author: Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Genre: Non-fiction, Philosophy, Social Science En defensa de la Ilustracion - Steven Pinker.epub
Progress is a measurable fact, and the Enlightenment is the engine driving it [4, 6]. Pinker isn't arguing that everything is perfect; rather,
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In ( Enlightenment Now ), Steven Pinker makes a data-driven case that the world is not falling apart—it is actually getting better. He argues that the core values of the 17th-century Enlightenment— reason, science, humanism, and progress —are the reasons for this improvement and remain our best tools for solving modern problems [4, 5]. Core Themes