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  1. Apr 22, 2022 · With intellectual depth and literary flair, Pinker makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress. Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on ‘Enlightenment Now,’ One Year Later

  2. Feb 13, 2018 · But the Enlightenment—with its dedication to science, reason, humanism, and progress—has led people to live longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives. And Pinker uses charts, data, history, and a firm dedication to his cause to empirically prove that we are living in better times.

  3. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress, and that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide.

  4. ENLIGHTENMENT NOW: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is remarkable, heart-warming, and long overdue. ― Christian Science Monitor Pinker offers numbers to show that the world has, on the whole, become safer, healthier and wealthier.

  5. May 25, 2019 · Enlightenment Now uses statistics to argue that health, prosperity, safety, peace and happiness are on the rise, both in the West and worldwide. It attributes these positive outcomes to Enlightenment values such as reason, science and humanism.

  6. "reason," "science," "humanism" and "progress" are definitive and that those who oppose them are unenlightened. Unfortunately, as Pinker pins his hopes for the future on reason, science, and humanism, he demonstrates an understanding of the "spiritual" that is limited to things

  7. In making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitably come with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe.