The Philosophical Future

Charles R. Reid earned his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and his Ed.D. from the University of California. He taught at Iowa Wesleyan College, Fayetteville State University, and Ohlone College. He served in the Korean War and taught at numerous public schools.

Acknowledgments – Introduction: Man’s Milieu—Happiness, Understanding, Limits – Seeing Forward: Ordinary Man’s Clouded Perspective – Collective Consciousness: Industrial Man and the Paradoxes of Social Logic – Common Man and His Critics: From Ridicule and Exhortation to Parity in an Age of Political Correctness – Realities of Work and Leisure: The Question of Psychological Costs – Facts on the Ground: Inequities of a Global Process and Their Human Effects – The Struggle Against Indiscipline: A Psychological Challenge to Middle-Class Society – Education (I): The Unfulfilled Promise – Education (II): Man the Learner: Swimming Against Cultural Currents – Education (III): The Learner and His Cultural Bonds: An Enigma of Modern Times – Can Men Suffer the Worst—And See Beyond the Unattainable "Best" as Well? – Progress vs. The Dark Age Scenario (I): Can Governments "Manage" Poverty? – Progress vs. The Dark Age Scenario (II): Man’s Dream of Progress and the Facts of Anti-Progress – The Civilizing Process—A Darwinian Enigma: From Religion to Anti-Religion to Neo-Barbarism – Mankind Evolving: Civilization, Power, the Individual – The Philosophical Future – In Sum: A Foredestined Future: The Philosophical Individual – Bibliography – Index.