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Author: Colin Costa
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-01-23
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0244751609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmateur iconoclast Colin Costa consigns political traditions and conventions to the rubbish bin of history before putting forward a potentially safer, fairer and more sustainable system in the form of Rational Democracy.
Author: Diwankar Saxena
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781637541708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rationalist Manifesto is the observation of the divided Indian Society. It gives way for another perspective for the Indian People, that doesn't talk about supremacy, divisions or preservation, but reminds them about the hopes that the future generation of India has from them. The book is for those who have grown tired of the political and social dichotomy of the Indian State, and still have hope for their great nation and its people. Ideologies and myths have been broken down in this book in simple language so as to make people understand the deep rooted problems of our great country, problems that are often brushed under the carpet. This book sends a message that is time for India to rise to this occasion and make changes for itself in which the youth of this nation works for the prosperity of it and not take out time to solve its many problems. To understand the changes in our political regimes, our social and political identity, this book leaves no point untouched and covers everything dedicatedly."It is the people who have the most power, but unlike power knowledge, wisdom and truth are kept at bay. Power without truth, wisdom or knowledge is the personification of vulnerability, destruction and chaos. The state of Indian politics is never going to change until and unless the state of Indian society changes, it is where will, power and mandate resides-with the people. And by mere knowledge, one can't attain the truth as knowledge is a sword with wisdom as it's hilt, without the hilt none can use that sword."
Author: A. Chapman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-06
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 1137347953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.
Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1971-10-01
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 110113772X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time.
Author: Charles Wheelan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-04-19
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0393347133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vision—and detailed road map to power—for a new party that will champion America’s rational center. From debt ceiling standoffs to single-digit Congress approval ratings, America’s political system has never been more polarized—or paralyzed—than it is today. As best-selling author and public policy expert Charles Wheelan writes, now is the time for a pragmatic Centrist party that will identify and embrace the best Democratic and Republican ideals, moving us forward on the most urgent issues for our nation. Wheelan—who not only lectures on public policy but practices it as well (he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2009)—brings even more than his usual wit and clarity of vision to The Centrist Manifesto. He outlines a realistic ground game that could net at least five Centrist senators from New England, the Midwest, and elsewhere. With the power to deny a red or blue Senate majority, committed Centrists could take the first step toward giving voice and power to America’s largest, and most rational, voting bloc: the center.
Author: Carl-Michael Edenborg
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983148043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary Nonfiction. "Edenborg's manifesto shines brightly within a constellation that includes Bosch's garden, Spinoza's philosophy of immanence, Bataille's essays, Duchamp's artworks, Ballard's Crash, and Acker's mash-ups. Sexuality in the realm of parapornography is not a place of humanist truths and psychological meaning (a vision of sexuality that dovetails all-too-neatly with the neo-liberal vision of the atomized, rationalist self) but rather an event that destroys 'meaning and identity through a mechanical repetition.' What I like best about Edenborg's brilliant and provocative book is that it brings into play, in an almost Blakean manner, so many seeming contraries: it's both anti-utopian and thoroughly communistic, proletarian and ethereal, a paean to hate and shame and yet an argument for the revolutionary (and anti-social) possibilities of love, a nuanced historical overview of sexual imagery and also a glimpse into a future that seems only pulse-beats away." James Pate"
Author: Mark Henderson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1446438848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're fed by the media we're let down by a lack of understanding and respect for its insights and evidence. In The Geek Manifesto Mark Henderson explains why and how we need to entrench scientific thinking more deeply into every aspect of our society. A new movement is gathering. Let's turn it into a force our leaders cannot ignore. This edition includes an appendix: 'A Geek Manifesto for America' by David Dobbs.
Author: Isabelle Stengers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1509521844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is being shaped by the bubbles and crashes associated with economic speculation and the market. A focus on conformism, competitiveness, opportunism and flexibility has made it extremely difficult to present cases of failure to the public, for fear that it will lose confidence in science altogether. In this bold new book, distinguished philosopher Isabelle Stengers shows that research is deeply intertwined with broader social interests, which means that science cannot race ahead in isolation but must learn instead to slow down. Stengers offers a path to an alternative science, arguing that researchers should stop seeing themselves as the 'thinking, rational brain of humanity' and refuse to allow their expertise to be used to shut down the concerns of the public, or to spread the belief that scientific progress is inevitable and will resolve all of society's problems. Rather, science must engage openly and honestly with an intelligent public and be clear about the kind of knowledge it is capable of producing. This timely and accessible book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers in a wide range of fields, as well anyone concerned with the role of science and its future.
Author: Frank S. Robinson
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1412815819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Case for Rational Optimism tackles a host of challenging subjects in an engaging, accessible, down-to-earth style. It is intellectually serious, ceaselessly intriguing, and devoid of banalities. While other books in this genre tend to be oriented toward self-help, this volume brings evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, economics, and a keen sense of history to the topic. Robinson begins with three goals: making the case for feeling good about oneself, about humanity in general, and about the global situation. He addresses such seemingly disparate subjects as selfi shness versus altruism, mind and free will, human nature, and issues relating to economics, technology, the environment, and more. Unifying these ideas into a coherent philosophical whole are central concepts: evolution has endowed our species with more good qualities than bad, and why; those qualities, and our use of reason, are the foundations of civilization, and how; and, consistent with our nature, we make a better world by valuing human life therefore enabling others to fl ourish in ways they freely choose. The Case for Rational Optimism argues that the highly challenging conditions confronting early man created a Darwinian selective pressure for cooperation, even altruism, among members of a tribe. Th e author fi nds evidence for this in the way our brains work, and in observable human behavior. He argues against existential despair over the human condition. Even though there probably is no grand celestial design investing life with meaning, he considers this liberating, giving every person the freedom to craft their own meaning. To Robinson, whether sentient beings experience suff ering or joy is the only thing that matters; without emotive highs and lows, the Universe would hardly matter.
Author: Kevin Schilbrack
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-03-03
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1444330535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto advocates a radical transformation of the discipline from its current, narrow focus on questions of God, to a fully global form of critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions. Opens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today Builds bridges between philosophy of religion and the other interpretative and explanatory approaches in the field of religious studies Provides a manifesto for a global approach to the subject that is a practice-centred rather than a belief-centred activity Gives attention to reflexive critical studies of 'religion' as socially constructed and historically located
