9781633887749 - To Light the Flame of Reason: Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century di Sturmark, Christer (9 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate better in this world filled with populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes, and pseudo-philosophy, authors Christer Sturmark and Douglas Hofstadter provide a set of simple tools for clear thinking, as well as a deeper understanding of science, truth, naturalism, and morality. It also offers insights into the rampant problems of extremism and fundamentalism and suggestions for how the world can move towards a new enlightenment. The book argues that we need to reawaken the basic values and ideals that defined the original age of enlightenment. We need to accept the idea that the world we inhabit is part of nature, and that it has no trace of supernatural or magical forces. Ethical questions should be detached from religion. This doesnt mean that the questions become any easier just that ideas are tested and judged without being profoundly tainted and constrained by religious dogmas.Such a form of secular humanism builds on the power of free thought the power to investigate and understand the natural world. Although not everything can be investigated or understood, the sincere quest for knowledge and understanding establishes a flexible, nondogmatic attitude toward the world. Curiosity and openness lie at the core of such an attitude. The scientific method of careful and open- minded testing, as well as sciences creative and reflective ways of thinking, provides key tools. What clear, science-inspired thinking helps us to understand, among many other things, is that a person can be good and can be motivated to carry out morally good actions without ever bowing to, or being limited by, supposedly divine forces.To Light the Flame of Reason will appeal to adults who are trying to figure out how to deal with the ever-increasing daily bombardment of conflicting messages about what is right, true, sensible, or good, and it should appeal even more to teenagers and university students who are struggling to find a believable and reliable philosophy of life that can help guide them in their choices of what and whom to trust, and how to act, both on the personal and the social level.Today, more people have greater access to information and knowledge than ever was dreamt of before, and more people are concerned about the world situation. More people have the chance, through their own actions, to make a difference.Each one of us, as an individual, matters. It is thus vitally important that each of us should choose, in a conscious and reflective manner, our own views of reality, of the world, and of humanity. And this means that it is crucial for us all to train ourselves in the art of thinking clearly.Christer Sturmark along with Pulizer Prize winning author Douglas Hofstdter argue that we must refocus our efforts on cultivting a secular society, and in doing so, we will rediscover the values and ethics that are so foreign in todays society. To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate better in this world filled with populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes, and pseudo-philosophy Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condizione: Sehr gut. xxxiii, 354 p. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Foreword -- Christer Sturmark -- Prelude: Concerning Yesterday's World and Today's World. -- A Global Psychosis. -- Fatal Superstition -- . -- Swedish Extremism and Superstition -- What We Need Is a New Age of Enlightenment. -- PART I -- THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY -- CHAPTER ONE To Meet the World with an Open Mind: -- Concerning the Tools and Compass Needed in the Quest -- for Knowledge. -- My Own Bumpy Trip. -- To Have an Open Mind. -- Explanations and Ockham's Razor -- Traps in Thinking. -- Rationality and Wisdom. -- Having Ideas and Forming a Philosophy of Life. -- My Point of View -- Secular Humanism -- Interlude: On Spirituality and Flow. -- CHAPTER TWO I Believe That I Know: Concerning Reality, -- Knowledge, and Truth -- What Is Knowledge? -- Is What Seems Real Really Real? -- Matters of Fact and Matters of Taste -- What Is Truth? -- Truth as Absolute, Truth as Relative -- Social Constructions -- Postmodernism and Education -- Relativism and Politics -- Interlude: On Three Great Mysteries. -- CHAPTER THREE Beliefs Based on Good Reasons: -- Concerning the Grounds That Underlie One's Convictions -- "But What Do You Believe in, Then?". -- Is Belief in Science a Kind of Faith? -- Intellectual Honesty. -- "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence". -- Unmasking What Is Implausible. -- Interlude: On Exploring Rival Moves in Chess and Rival Moves in the Game of Life -- CHAPTER FOUR What Is Science? Concerning Theories, Experiments, Conclusions, and Science's Essence. -- At the Very Heart of Science -- Experimentation, Rejection, and Revision: The Very Core of What Science Is. -- Deductive Processes of Inference. -- Inductive Processes of Inference. -- Case Study: Louis Pasteur and Spontaneous Generation. -- Falsifiability -- Mathematics and Its Absolute Truths -- Blind Experiments and Placebos -- The Darker Side of Science. -- Are Religion and Science Mutually Compatible? -- Interlude: On the Usefulness of Science. -- CHAPTER FIVE Ghosts in the Head: Concerning Our Wonderful but Easily Fooled Brains. -- Our Brains Pull the Wool over Our Eyes Social Thinking and Abstract Thinking -- Moral Thinking. -- Was the Human Brain Designed to Be Religious? -- Our Very Human Theory of Mind -- Magical Thinking. -- Interlude: On Heaven and Paradise. -- CHAPTER SIX A Natural World: Concerning Naturalism, -- Agnosticism, and Atheism. -- Naturalism and Materialism. -- Atheists as Provocateurs -- Atheism in American Life -- Atheists as Beings with No Morality. -- Agnostic or Atheist? -- Many Agnostics Are Actually Atheists -- What Does an Atheist Actually Believe? -- Thirteen Prejudices about Atheism. -- Atheism's Rebirth and Disappearance -- . -- Interlude: On Superstition and Hocus-Pocus. -- CHAPTER SEVEN Being Good without Needing God: -- Concerning Goodness, Evil, and Morality -- The Problem of Evil. -- Omnipotent-Yes or No? -- The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways -- Some Kinds of Evil Aren't Real, despite Appearances -- Is God Actually Good? -- Morality Has No Need for a God. -- The Fight between Zeus and Shiva. -- Eve Is Always Right -- A Secular View of Evil and Morality -- "The Problem Is Merely That Humans Misinterpret Religion" -- The Natural Roots of Morality -- Empathy and Identification. -- Interlude: On Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility -- CHAPTER EIGHT New Age Beliefs and the Crisis of Reason: -- Concerning People's Beliefs in Strange Ideas. -- Unreasonable Beliefs -- Positive Thinking and Pseudoscience -- Nikken as a Case Study -- Homeopathy. -- Exploiting the Cachet of Antiquity and That of Science. -- Quantum Physics and the New Age. -- Category Errors and the Ladder of Sciences -- A Case Study: Astrology -- Second Case Study: The Myers-Briggs Test. -- Synchronicity -- Case Study: Hug and Bug. -- New Age Prejudi.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate better in this world filled with populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes, and pseudo-philosophy, authors Christer Sturmark and Douglas Hofstadter provide a set of simple tools for clear thinking, as well as a deeper understanding of science, truth, naturalism, and morality. It also offers insights into the rampant problems of extremism and fundamentalism and suggestions for how the world can move towards a new enlightenment. The book argues that we need to reawaken the basic values and ideals that defined the original age of enlightenment. We need to accept the idea that the world we inhabit is part of nature, and that it has no trace of supernatural or magical forces. Ethical questions should be detached from religion. This doesnt mean that the questions become any easier just that ideas are tested and judged without being profoundly tainted and constrained by religious dogmas.Such a form of secular humanism builds on the power of free thought the power to investigate and understand the natural world. Although not everything can be investigated or understood, the sincere quest for knowledge and understanding establishes a flexible, nondogmatic attitude toward the world. Curiosity and openness lie at the core of such an attitude. The scientific method of careful and open- minded testing, as well as sciences creative and reflective ways of thinking, provides key tools. What clear, science-inspired thinking helps us to understand, among many other things, is that a person can be good and can be motivated to carry out morally good actions without ever bowing to, or being limited by, supposedly divine forces.To Light the Flame of Reason will appeal to adults who are trying to figure out how to deal with the ever-increasing daily bombardment of conflicting messages about what is right, true, sensible, or good, and it should appeal even more to teenagers and university students who are struggling to find a believable and reliable philosophy of life that can help guide them in their choices of what and whom to trust, and how to act, both on the personal and the social level.Today, more people have greater access to information and knowledge than ever was dreamt of before, and more people are concerned about the world situation. More people have the chance, through their own actions, to make a difference.Each one of us, as an individual, matters. It is thus vitally important that each of us should choose, in a conscious and reflective manner, our own views of reality, of the world, and of humanity. And this means that it is crucial for us all to train ourselves in the art of thinking clearly.Christer Sturmark along with Pulizer Prize winning author Douglas Hofstdter argue that we must refocus our efforts on cultivting a secular society, and in doing so, we will rediscover the values and ethics that are so foreign in todays society. To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate better in this world filled with populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes, and pseudo-philosophy Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.