Ideological fixation : from the Stone Age to today's culture wars /
This book was undertaken before the terms 'fake news' and 'alternative facts' were coined and the further escalation of America's ideological civil war. It was prompted by deep wonderment at the way people tend to be wholly enclosed within their ideological frames and deaf t...
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New York :
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Table of Contents:
- What is true? (Though never the whole truth)
- What is right? How morality should be conceived
- Religious ideological fixation : examined by a non-hostile atheist
- The major contenders of modernity : liberalism, socialism, fascism
- The West's guilt towards the 'rest'
- Nature or nurture? : nations and nationhood
- Nature or nurture? : gender and sexual behavior
- Can anything be done? Some very tentative reflections on current ideological battlefields
- Conclusion: Ideological fixation : now and ever.