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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Steven Pinker, Violence Vanquished. We believe our world is riddled with
terror and war, but we may be living in teh most peaceful era in human
existence. Why brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise. Wall
Street Journal, Sept 24, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311
1904106704576583203589408180.html
(an essay adapted from his book, The better Angels of Our Nature: Why
violence has declined. Viking, 2011)
My comment:
(a) pax is Latin for peace.
(i) Pax Romana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_romana
(established by Caesar Augustus; Its span was about 207 years (27 BC to 180
AD)); ended with the death of Marcus Aurelius)
* Marcus Aurelius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
(ii) Pax Britannica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Britannica
(the period of relative peace in Europe (1815–1914); after the 1815 Battle
of Waterloo)
(b) Humanitarian Revolution is a proposed name for this era.
(c) For Age or Reason, see Age of Enlightenment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Englightenment
(or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason; an elite cultural movement of
intellectuals in 18th century Europe, that sought to mobilize the power of
reason; Originating about 1650–1700; until about 1790–1800; The center of
the Enlightenment was France)
(d) Reading China's modern history in the late teens, I wondered how small
incidents led to foreign invasions and wars. I was not trivializing the
severity of China's transgressions, which however will not trigger a war
these days. perhaps yardsticks in the nineteenth century were different from
those in the late twentieth century. |
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