Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, ...
Stiven Pinker
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Esli vam kazhetsya, chto mir katitsya v propast', oglyanites' vokrug. Lyudi teper' zhivut dol'she, oni zdorovee, svobodnee i schastlivee, chem kogda by to ni bylo. V zahvatyvayushchem duh obzore sostoyaniya chelovechestva v tret'em tysyacheletii psiholog i populyarizator nauki Stiven Pinker prizyvaet nas otvlech'sya ot sensacionnyh zagolovkov novostey i katastroficheskih predskazaniy, kotorye tak lovko igrayut na svoystvennyh nashemu myshleniyu kognitivnyh iskazheniyah. Vmesto etogo on predlagaet obratit'sya k cifram i s pomoshch'yu semi desyatkov porazitel'nyh grafikov demonstriruet nevidannyy progress ne tol'ko Zapada, no i vsego mira vo vsekh oblastyah, ot zdorov'ya i blagosostoyaniya do bezopasnosti, mira i prav cheloveka. Etot progress — ne sluchaynost' i ne rezul'tat deystviya vneshnih sil. Eto dar sovremennomu miru ot deyateley Prosveshcheniya, kotorye pervymi dodumalis', chto znaniya mozhno ispol'zovat' vo imya procvetaniya vsego chelovechestva. Idei Prosveshcheniya — vovse ne naivnye mechtaniya. Naoborot, oni srabotali — i eto neosporimyy fakt. Tem ne menee imenno seychas eti idei osobenno nuzhdayutsya v nashey zashchite, poskol'ku protivostoyat harakternym nedostatkam chelovecheskoy prirody — traybalizmu, avtoritarizmu, demonizacii chuzhakov i magicheskomu myshleniyu, — kotorye tak nravitsya ekspluatirovat' sovremennym demagogam. Da, stoyashchie pered chelovechestvom problemy ogromny, no vse oni reshaemy, esli my, prodolzhaya delo Prosveshcheniya, ispol'zuem dlya etogo razum, doveryaem nauke i rukovodstvuemsya idealami gumanizma.