Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledgepor Bruce S. Thornton
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A feat of intellectual history and contemporary social analysis and an ingenious diatribe on the new epidemic of false knowledge, this is an impassioned plea for reason amid irrationality,“swallowing falsities for truth, dubiosities for certainties, feasibilities for possibilities, and things impossible as possibilities." BUY, BORROW, or BURN? BUY sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry-a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNinguno
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)149.7Philosophy and Psychology Philosophical Systems Other Philosophic Systems AgnosticismClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
He vilifies the "cleverness with language" of the postmodern antirationalist yet on the same page indulges in the use of words like rodomontade and epiphenomena (47). Isolated anecdotes and examples are used to draw sweeping conclusions. Another example, "This is not to say that contemporary poststructuralists are incipient mass murderes. BUT [emphasis mine:] the connection between their ideas and the dehumanization that makes mass murder possible must be acknowledged." (49) Oh really? This is an example of rational thinking? It's unfortunate, Thornton has some very good points to make, but does not make them satisfactorily. ( )