A Success for the Politics of Common Sense and Realism
Author: Erich Honecker
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Published: 1987
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Author: Erich Honecker
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Al Gore
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0788139088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Curry
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 1641770759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommon sense is the foundation of thinking and of human action. It is the indispensable basis for making our way in the world as individuals and in community with others, and the starting point for finding truth and building scientific knowledge. The philosophy of common-sense realism deeply informed the American Founders’ vision for a self-governing people, in a society where leaders and average citizens share essentially the same understanding of reality—of what simply makes sense. But today our confidence in the value and reliability of common sense has been badly shaken. Deep thinkers have rejected it. Elites have learned to disdain it. We’re told that we have moved into a more sophisticated world, where common sense is passé and the very concept of truth is outmoded. Indeed, the Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the Word of the Year for 2016. Do we actually live in a post-truth reality? Have we moved beyond common sense? Can we? In this book, Robert Curry exposes the absurdity of the attacks on common sense, and demonstrates that we still live and move in the realm of common sense in our every waking moment. Drawing from philosophy and literature, science and psychiatry, Reclaiming Common Sense helps us regain our trust in the “superpower” we all have in common, while reminding us that we cannot get along without it.
Author: Duncan J. Watts
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0857895060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? And does higher pay incentivize people to work harder? If you think the answers to these questions are a matter of common sense, think again. As sociologist and network science pioneer Duncan Watts explains in this provocative book, the explanations that we give for the outcomes that we observe in life-explanations that seem obvious once we know the answer-are less useful than they seem. Watts shows how commonsense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into thinking that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do; and in turn, why attempts to predict, manage, or manipulate social and economic systems so often go awry. Only by understanding how and when common sense fails can we improve how we plan for the future, as well as understand the present-an argument that has important implications in politics, business, marketing, and even everyday life.
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy Bhaskar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1134867956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1970s, critical realism has grown to address a range of subjects, including economics, philosophy, science, and religion. It has become a complex and mature philosophy. Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism looks back over this development in one concise and accessible volume. The late Roy Bhaskar was critical realism’s philosophical originator and chief exponent. He draws on a lifetime’s experience to give a definitive, systematic account of this increasingly influential, international and multidisciplinary approach. Critical realism’s key element has always been its vindication and deepening of our understanding of ontology. Arguing that realist ontology is inexorable in knowledge and action, Bhaskar sees this as the key to a new enlightened common sense. From the definition of critical realism and its applicability in the social sciences, to explanation of dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality, this is the essential introduction for students of critical realism.
Author: Thomas Paine
Publisher: The Capitol Net Inc
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 1587332299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects, viz.: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the Present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections
Author: Philip H. Wicksteed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1136510303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Volume XXI of twenty-three in a collection on the History of Economic Thought. Originally published in 1933, this volume offers selected papers and reviews on economic theory as the first volume of two.
Author: Philip Henry Wicksteed
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Published: 1910
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