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245 00 $aDo humankind's best days lie ahead? :$bPinker and Ridley vs. De Botton and Gladwell /$cedited by Rudyard Griffiths.
264 1 $a[Toronto, Ontario] :$bHouse of Anansi Press Inc.,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2016
300 $aviii, 111 pages ;$c20 cm.
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490 1 $aThe Munk debates
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aDo humankind's best days lie ahead? -- Pre-debate interviews with Rudyard Griffiths -- Post-debate commentary.
520 $a"Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. In the seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which was held in Toronto on November 6, 2015, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and influential author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell to debate whether humankind's best days lie ahead."--Page 4 of cover.
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700 1 $aGladwell, Malcolm,$d1963-$epanelist.
700 1 $aGriffiths, Rudyard,$eeditor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tDo humankind's best days lie ahead?$dToronto : House of Anansi Press, 2016$z9781487001698$w(OCoLC)945106512
830 0 $aMunk debates.
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