Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:38 am
Why I looked at this book
This book is being strongly recommended by Bill Gates, so I thought I ought to read it. But I also think that some of the anti-enlightenment rhetoric we hear is a prime example of muddled thinking, often along the lines of 'Enlightenment values are all very well, but someone didn't live up to them, so they don't count'. I'm hoping this book will help to show what we can do to counter such muddled thinking, as well as showing whether there have been any serious arguments against enlightenment values.