
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Il n’a pas écrit qu’ils étaient sans valeur littéraire, mais qu’ils avaient engendré, malgré eux, un monde froid, sans racines, bêtement suspendu à l’abstraction, au droit… Les systèmes concentrationnaires sont nés de l’homme abstrait imaginé par les Lumières. Et le capitalisme, aujourd’hui, fait son miel de cet homme plat, unidimensionnel, pour ne
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Others might say that progress is a myth because Nazism, the Holocaust, and genocidal communism all occurred less than a century ago—and after the Enlightenment. This would be reasonable if the argument were that everything that came after the Enlightenment was liberal. In fact, these phenomena show what happens when totalitarianism is allowed to d
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