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Prejudices

- A Philosophical Dictionary
Af: Robert Nisbet Engelsk Paperback

Prejudices

- A Philosophical Dictionary
Af: Robert Nisbet Engelsk Paperback
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A great moralist and social thinker illuminates the most vexing issues of our time—war, old age, racism, abortion, boredom, crime and punishment, sociobiology, and seventy odd others—in a dazzling book that is by turns hilarious and somber but always vigorous and stimulating. Upon each subject Robert Nisbet offers piercing and often unexpected insights. Joining the colorful company of Montaigne, Voltaire, Burke, and Mencken, Nisbet writes for his own age and with his own prejudices. He ranges from the historical to the contemporary, from great men to lesser ones, from pieties and wisdoms to fads and effronteries. The work, in other words, is neither philosophy nor a dictionary (except that the subject matter is arranged in alphabetical order), but the distillation of Nisbet’s wisdom, learning, and profound moral conviction. He argues for liberty over equality, for authority against permissiveness, for religion but also for science, for the individual and his rights but against individualism and entitlements. The center of his thinking is the fervent wish for a community linked by history, religion, and ritual, in which children are raised by families rather than by the state, but in which blind custom and belief are questioned and creativity emerges. Determinism of any kind he finds untrue to human nature and history. Man is free to improve himself or destroy himself.
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A great moralist and social thinker illuminates the most vexing issues of our time—war, old age, racism, abortion, boredom, crime and punishment, sociobiology, and seventy odd others—in a dazzling book that is by turns hilarious and somber but always vigorous and stimulating. Upon each subject Robert Nisbet offers piercing and often unexpected insights. Joining the colorful company of Montaigne, Voltaire, Burke, and Mencken, Nisbet writes for his own age and with his own prejudices. He ranges from the historical to the contemporary, from great men to lesser ones, from pieties and wisdoms to fads and effronteries. The work, in other words, is neither philosophy nor a dictionary (except that the subject matter is arranged in alphabetical order), but the distillation of Nisbet’s wisdom, learning, and profound moral conviction. He argues for liberty over equality, for authority against permissiveness, for religion but also for science, for the individual and his rights but against individualism and entitlements. The center of his thinking is the fervent wish for a community linked by history, religion, and ritual, in which children are raised by families rather than by the state, but in which blind custom and belief are questioned and creativity emerges. Determinism of any kind he finds untrue to human nature and history. Man is free to improve himself or destroy himself.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 318
ISBN-13: 9780674700666
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 067470066X
Kategori: Sociologi og antropologi
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 1983
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 231mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Harvard University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 1983
Forfatter(e): Robert Nisbet
Forfatter(e) Robert Nisbet

Kategori Sociologi og antropologi

ISBN-13 9780674700666

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 318

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 231mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 15 sep 1983

Oplagsdato 15 sep 1983

Forlag Harvard University Press

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