The Myth of the Closed Mind
Author: Ray Scott Percival
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0812696859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious zeal, suicide terrorism, passionate commitment to ideologies, and the results of various psychological tests are often cited to show that humans are fundamentally irrational. The author examines all such supposed examples of irrationality and argues that they are compatible with rationality. Rationality does not mean absence of error, but the possibility of correcting error in the light of criticism. In this sense, all human beliefs are rational: they are all vulnerable to being abandoned when shown to be faulty.