The Inherent Pessimism of New Optimism

To counter rhetoric of an increasingly precarious existence for humans all around the globe, the philosophy of New Optimism has arisen in recent years, endorsed by individuals such as Bill Gates and Hans Rosling. The book that best illustrates this ideology is Steven Pinker’s “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” “If …

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