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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 9

    http://humanprogress.org/blog/progress-depends-on-reason … #

    3:11 PM - 9 Feb 2018
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    • Tijani Kidal ⵣ Laurie meg fotakis SAM JOSHI...💖 LordoftheNerds84 Sandra Park Stimpson J. Cat HumanProgress.org Carlos García-Arista
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      2. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        How did "reason, science & humanism" play at #Koch-#Cato, which is all about reducing government, and the protections for those elements - required for a thriving democracy? Koch funded ideology - in government and media - runs directly opposite your idea of "Enlightenment".

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      1. Gregor Flock GCSN‏ @GFlock_GCSN Feb 12
        Replying to @sapinker

        For another enlightenment-related project - one in the context of civil society - have a look athttps://www.gcsno.org/ 

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      1. Vessi‏ @Vess98 Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker @GolrokhS

        👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿

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      1. bmg koch‏ @bmg_koch Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        impressed that successful, wealthy academic elites are qualifying some of the "world is in great shape, you've never had it so good" rhetoric - the culture is rotten and stagnant - agree science/medicine is reason for hope

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      2. rebeccatodd‏ @hrutod Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        I just bought the book and wonder if we can get you and @JonHaidt to address the passion/reason structure of human development.

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      2. whirring‏ @mistySpock Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        "The values of the Enlightenment are under assault from the far Left and the far Right." Hmm

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      2. Krzys‏ @miskrzys Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Nazism and Communism are also legacies of Enlightenment

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      3. Mark Beklem‏ @MBeklem Feb 10
        Replying to @miskrzys @sapinker

        No, they were both a reaction against the enlightenment, opposed to democacy, rule of law, and science. Please educate yourself.

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      4. Krzys‏ @miskrzys Feb 10
        Replying to @MBeklem @sapinker

        Lol. You don't know much history, do you?

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      1. @dubielicious™‏ @dubielicious Feb 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Max_Intellectus

        mY Humanitarian Revolution is Alive ♡

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      1. Ides Callebaut‏ @ides_c Feb 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        Op basis van zijn vorige boeken heb ik vertrouwen in Pinkers optimisme.

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      1. Siobhán 💭‏ @shiv42tea Feb 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        Hear, hear.

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      1. Alison Emily‏ @aalexis1234 Feb 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        👌

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      1. CrossSchlepper‏ @SimonKobster Feb 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        How was decapitating Louis XVI - a benign monarch who was intellectually amenable to constitutional monarchy - a great victory for progress? The trouble with Pinker is that he doesn't understand Politics or History. China is pro-progress but totalitarian.

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      1. Larry Ray‏ @LarryJRay Feb 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        It also depends on lessening on inequality. The super-rich send cars into space while inequality is now cosmic. The poor descend into the abominable extractive industries that are powering the electric cars boom. Reason alone won't cure this

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      1. Vijai Pandey‏ @vijai_pandey Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Utterly wrong conclusion...

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      1. Pixel in Valhalla‏ @pixelthecat369 Feb 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Loved "Better Angels". This is the ideal sequel/ companion, so is a no-brainer buy for me.

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