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Our Captured Minds: How religions and ideologies exploit morality to order and control society - Couverture souple

Matthews, David Anthony

 
9780620693448: Our Captured Minds: How religions and ideologies exploit morality to order and control society
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0620693444 ISBN 13 : 9780620693448
Editeur : Opress, 2016

Synopsis

Why do you believe what you do? TO WHAT EXTENT IS YOUR MIND YOUR OWN? Our Captured Minds provides a highly original, stimulating, and profound insight into the means whereby society is ordered and controlled by its leaders. This control is effected through religions and ideologies, which exploit and manipulate mankind’s inbuilt impulse to respond to moral order. In the course of describing exactly how and why this happens, the following points, among others, are covered: . Reason vs. Revelation as the source of morality . Altruism and Egoism . How morality is formed . Why ideologies are in fact religions, and vice versa . The moral basis of fanaticism . Socialism as religion in a secular age . Why moral opinion can never be fact . Belief in universal morality as the means of control To recapture your mind, read on …

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Éditeur
Opress
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0620693444
ISBN 13 
9780620693448
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
174
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