The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... human nature involved . How else can one explain the perennial popularity of Rousseau's absurd notion that man is born good and ruined by society2 - i.e . , other men ? That we are endowed with undeniably strong instincts , many of them ...
... human nature involved . How else can one explain the perennial popularity of Rousseau's absurd notion that man is born good and ruined by society2 - i.e . , other men ? That we are endowed with undeniably strong instincts , many of them ...
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... human . A similar idea underlay Jeffersonian democracy . Essentially it presumed that the process begun in the remote Christian past had gone far enough so that now Everyman was human - which is to say , no longer the beastly lout he ...
... human . A similar idea underlay Jeffersonian democracy . Essentially it presumed that the process begun in the remote Christian past had gone far enough so that now Everyman was human - which is to say , no longer the beastly lout he ...
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... human stocks . " ( I doubt that I would wish a prehensile tail on a child of mine , particularly if he was the first kid on his block to have one ; but as Toffler remarks , not all of us move easily with the times . ) Joshua Lederberg ...
... human stocks . " ( I doubt that I would wish a prehensile tail on a child of mine , particularly if he was the first kid on his block to have one ; but as Toffler remarks , not all of us move easily with the times . ) Joshua Lederberg ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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