“Explaining the meaning of life is not the usual job description of a professor of cognitive science,” he writes-before gamely proceeding to answer that very question from a variety of stances, all resting on the assumption that life is best endowed with meaning if only we remember our Enlightenment ideals. “Why should I live?” So asked one of the author’s students. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, 2011, etc.). So writes eternal optimist Pinker (Psychology/Harvard Univ. The bomb? The plague? Trump? Not to worry things are getting better.
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