Enlightenment 2.0: We need another Age of Reason to save our civilization
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Enlightenment 2.0: We need another Age of Reason to save our civilization
Nowadays, however, our world of meaning might collapse within decades.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
To understand all this we need to go back and investigate who Homo sapiens really is, how humanism became the dominant world religion and why attempting to fulfil the humanist dream is likely to cause its disintegration. This is the basic plan of the book.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
If the Enlightenment was a revolution in thinking, the survival of the human species may well depend on a revolution in imagination. This revolution would not center reason and mastery, but interdependence, care and the capacity to imagine otherwise. It would demand that we challenge what we think is possible, not through extrapolation, but through... See more
Practical imagination
For cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, it is vital that we appreciate how much progress we have made in liberal democracies—and that we owe that progress to Enlightenment humanism—if we wish it to continue: A liberal democracy is a precious achievement. Until the messiah comes, it will always have problems, but it’s better to solve those problem
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