Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason Science Humanism and Progress

✍ Scribed by Steven Pinker

Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 739
Category: Library

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Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason Science Humanism and Progress Penguin 2018

✦ Table of Contents

ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER......Page 2
TITLE PAGE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
EPIGRAPH......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 12
PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 15
CHAPTER 1: DARE TO UNDERSTAND!......Page 20
CHAPTER 2: ENTRO, EVO, INFO......Page 29
CHAPTER 3: COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENTS......Page 46
PART II: PROGRESS......Page 54
CHAPTER 4: PROGRESSOPHOBIA......Page 55
CHAPTER 5: LIFE......Page 72
CHAPTER 6: HEALTH......Page 84
CHAPTER 7: SUSTENANCE......Page 91
CHAPTER 8: WEALTH......Page 105
CHAPTER 9: INEQUALITY......Page 127
CHAPTER 10: THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 156
CHAPTER 11: PEACE......Page 197
CHAPTER 12: SAFETY......Page 210
CHAPTER 13: TERRORISM......Page 239
CHAPTER 14: DEMOCRACY......Page 249
CHAPTER 15: EQUAL RIGHTS......Page 267
CHAPTER 16: KNOWLEDGE......Page 291
CHAPTER 17: QUALITY OF LIFE......Page 308
CHAPTER 18: HAPPINESS......Page 326
CHAPTER 19: EXISTENTIAL THREATS......Page 359
CHAPTER 20: THE FUTURE OF PROGRESS......Page 396
PART III: REASON, SCIENCE, AND HUMANISM......Page 424
CHAPTER 21: REASON......Page 427
CHAPTER 22: SCIENCE......Page 467
CHAPTER 23: HUMANISM......Page 497
NOTES......Page 549
REFERENCES......Page 605
INDEX......Page 654

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