There is a continuing popular debate in the Western world about values, and in particular those values by which we conduct our private lives. This debate reflects a genuine confusion about morality; it seems that we are more unsure about where right and wrong may lie than at any previous point in our history. In The Demoralization of Western Culture Ralph Fevre undertakes an explanation of these difficulties. He argues that their most important source lies in the popularity of a particular sort of reasoning, a sub-category ...
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There is a continuing popular debate in the Western world about values, and in particular those values by which we conduct our private lives. This debate reflects a genuine confusion about morality; it seems that we are more unsure about where right and wrong may lie than at any previous point in our history. In The Demoralization of Western Culture Ralph Fevre undertakes an explanation of these difficulties. He argues that their most important source lies in the popularity of a particular sort of reasoning, a sub-category of rationality called 'common sense' which came to dominate our thinking during the twentieth century. He looks at why this sort of reasoning has proved so persuasive and so much more powerful than the alternative modes of thinking offered by those who want to resist it.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Continuum, 2000, 1st ed., like new hardback w/ very good dust jacket. dust jacket does have slight wear, but book is like new. misc.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x16cm, xiv, 272 pp. Contents: Lost Horizons; Utopias; Resistance to Reason; Bill Clinton & the Opinion Polls; Feelings & Sensations; Love & Sex Among Heterosexuals; Is Everything Relative? The Ice-Cream Headache; Apollo at Delhi; Remoralizing the Millenium; Spirits of the Hive.
