02368nam 2200505 450 991047890330332120170815161437.01-4976-4893-9(CKB)3710000000314272(EBL)1883991(SSID)ssj0001328625(PQKBManifestationID)11727805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001328625(PQKBWorkID)11292072(PQKB)10681999(MiAaPQ)EBC1883991(EXLCZ)99371000000031427220190314d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlagues of the mind the new epidemic of false knowledge /Bruce S. ThorntonWilmington, Delaware :ISI Books,[1999]©19991 online resource (440 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-882926-34-X Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Of the Causes of Error; CHAPTER 1: Knowledge is Virtue; CHAPTER 2: "Feeling is All"; CHAPTER 3: Discontented with Civilization; CHAPTER 4: Tragedy and Therapy; PART II: Of Three Popular and Received Ideas; CHAPTER 5: Romantic Environmentalism; CHAPTER 6: The White Man's Golden Age Red Man; CHAPTER 7: The False Goddess and Her Lost Paradise; CONCLUSION The Examined Life; NOTES; INDEX; Copyright Page<DIV>A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's <I>Plagues of the Mind</I> 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.<BR /><BR /><br clear=""all"" /> </DIV>Truthfulness and falsehoodErrorElectronic books.Truthfulness and falsehood.Error.149.7Thornton Bruce S.920524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910478903303321Plagues of the mind2148777UNINA