![]() ![]() He's been named on the top 100 most influential intellectuals by both Time and Foreign Policy. Pinker is a linguist who teaches at Harvard and is the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and How the Mind Works. ![]() ![]() "I wrote this book because I have come to realize that it's not." "The Enlightenment principle that we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human flourishing may seem obvious," writes Steven Pinker in his new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. That idea-that all men and women are created equal and have inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness-is directly informed by the Enlightenment, the movement that dominated ideas and culture in the 18th century.īut are we still an Enlightenment nation? America, observers are fond of saying, is the only country based upon an idea. ![]()
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