False Truths
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6299-4 (ISBN)
In False Truths, Edward C. Mendler contends that many of the beliefs, tenets, conclusions, and understandings that are widely accepted as “truths” are, in fact, not valid at all. Such dubious and false concepts arise not only in philosophy and theology but also under the rubrics of cosmology, quantum physics, democracy, freedom, economics, and various aspects of “human nature” and evolution. We accept and absorb these false ideas because they were and are propounded by “authorities,” both ancient and modern. Mendler asserts that we should challenge them all — from Plato on to contemporary theorists in all of those fields — and question and analyze every element of their conclusions.
Edward C. Mendler grew up in South Bend, Indiana. He served as a Navy radio technician in Guam during the Bikini A-bomb tests in 1946. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School, from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (magna cum laude), and from Harvard Law School. Mendler practiced law in Boston for fifty years. He has studied and written about philosophy, science, law, and government as well as fiction.
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Preface
CHAPTER ONE: RELIANCE ON AUTHORITY
Origins
Consequences
CHAPTER TWO: THE STORY OF BELIEFS
How the Ancient Greeks Misled Us
The Middle Ages Muddle
We Were Not Enlightened
CHAPTER THREE: THE PERSISTENCE OF OLD IDEAS
Old and New
Jacques Maritain
Pope John Paul II
John Polkinghorne
CHAPTER FOUR: THE ERROR OF DUALISM
Causation
Epistemology
CHAPTER FIVE: FAITH AND ANTI-FAITH
Faith
Antifaith — Fair and Foul
CHAPTER SIX: PHYSICS AND MYSTERY
Cosmology
Waves, Particles, Quanta
CHAPTER SEVEN: BIOLOGY AND MYSTERY
The Basics of Evolution
The Burgess Shale
Consciousness
Humans and Animals
The Origin of Life
CHAPTER EIGHT: MIND
The Awesome Brain
Free Will and Foolishness
Neuroscience — New Understandings
CHAPTER NINE: EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM
Equality
Democracy
Freedom
CHAPTER TEN: ENTERPRISE, PLANNING, FREEDOM AND WELFARE
The Basics of Economics
Enterprise and Planning
Welfare and Gridlock
CHAPTER ELEVEN: CONCLUSIONS
Index
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-6299-4 / 0761862994 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-6299-4 / 9780761862994 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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