Name: Enlightenment Now
Rating: 4.30 (7 reviews)
Author: Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker urges us to look at the world in a new light.  Is the world really falling apart? Is the idea of progress obsolete? Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge and happiness are on the rise and is not just in the West but worldwide.  This progress is not the result of some cosmic force.  It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.  The Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. 

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