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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
Steven Pinker
Matt Ridley
Alain de Botton
Malcolm Gladwell
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2016-11-03
主題
Social Science / Future Studies
Political Science / General
Philosophy / Political
Philosophy / Social
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / General
History / General
Philosophy / General
ISBN
1786070774
9781786070777
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MB69DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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‘It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.’
–Steven Pinker
‘The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.’
–Malcolm Gladwell
In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world’s most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era…