Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker | Book Summary, Review and Quotes | Free Audiobook

Show notes Find out why Bill Gates refers to Enlightenment Now as his new favorite book of all time.  Learn on your terms. Get the PDF, infographic, full ad-free audiobook and animated version of this summary and a lot more on the top-rated StoryShots app: https://www.getstoryshots.com Help us grow to create more amazing content for you! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the StoryShots podcast now.  What should our next book be? Suggest and vote it up on the StoryShots app. Life gets busy. Has Enlightenment Now been on your reading list? Learn why the world is a much better place, and why this refreshing message is the key to tackling climate change. (with this book summary) We’re scratching the surface here. If you don’t already have this bestselling book by Steven Pinker, get the audiobook for free to learn the juicy details. Disclaimer: This is an unofficial summary and analysis. StoryShots Book Summary and Analysis of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker Introduction “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” - Franklin Pierce Adams Find out why Bill Gates refers to Enlightenment Now as his new favorite book of all time.  Enlightenment Now is Steven Pinker’s follow-up to The Better Angels of Our Nature. The latter asserts that human life is getting healthier and longer. The world is now safer, less violent, and wealthier. Pinker identified six major trends and five historical forces for this change. The most important one is the humanitarian revolution that the Enlightenment and its associated cultivation of reason brought. Enlightenment Now elaborates this argument by using social science data. It shows reason, science and humanism have brought us a general improvement of the human condition over recent history. Humanism is the belief that people can live by reason, rather than religious faith. Pinker explores the nature and importance of reason more in his next book, Rationality. We can use the ideas of the Enlightenment to understand things better and solve climate change - the biggest problem humanity faces. There are grounds to be hopeful about the future, despite the challenges. The world may improve for many more decades if we stick to the values of the Enlightenment. It is refreshing to think the world is a better place and will continue to improve. Join us to find out if you agree with the overarching theme of hope in Enlightenment Now. About Steven Pinker Steven Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on visual cognition and psycholinguistics. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Time magazine listed Pinker as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” Pinker was born in 1954 to a middle-class Jewish family in Montreal, Canada. His grandparents immigrated to Canada from Poland and Romania, and owned a small necktie factory in Montreal. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a high-school vice-principal.  He received his BA from McGill University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been a psychology professor at MIT and Harvard University.  His popular and highly praised books include The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, Words and Rules, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. He also writes frequently for the New York Times, The New Republic, and other magazines. StoryShot #1: The Enlightenment is The Age of Questioning, Understanding, and Critiquing   StoryShot #2: There Are Three Ways To Understand: Entropy, Evolution, Information Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices