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Bezig met laden... Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?door Steven Pinker, Alain De Botton, Malcolm Gladwell, Matt Ridley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. With those four men listed as the authors, how could this have been such an uninteresting book? It’s the transcript of a debate which took place in Toronto several years ago. Pinker and Ridley made the optimistic case, de Botton and Gladwell responded as pessimists. Pinker was the strongest, laying out a powerful case for steady improvement in the human condition, though he seemed (more than) a bit smug about climate change, among other challenges. Reading what he said now that we’ve had COVID and the invasion of Ukraine, I still think he’s essentially right. But to understand the argument better, one should read their books, not this one, which may have worked well as a debate on stage, but not as a text to read. Disappointed. ( ) "there are stubborn and cyclical obstacles to fulfillment and to a properly happy life" -- Alain de Botton. p. 70 "[first-world problems] have a striking ability to mar existence" "the capacity to stare the grim facts of existence properly in the face endows one with a certain buoyancy and capacity to deal with problems." p. 73 geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology, not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. In the seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debates, which was held in Toronto on November 6, 2015, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and bestselling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell to debate whether humankind's best days lie ahead. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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