The Art of Thinking

Dagobert D. Runes

• Editorial: Philosophical Library/Open Road
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781504064453
• Categoría: Philosophy
• Categoría: Logic in Philosophy

The philosopher and founder of the Philosophical Library explores the nature of human thought, motivation, and logic.

In The Art of Thinking, philosopher Dagobert D. Runes lays out his views on the relationship between logic and emotion. He argues that the human thought process is essentially alike from one person to another—and that if it was not, society would cease to function. What accounts for our diversity of views, however, is the role emotion plays in our formulation of propositions.

Runes analyzes the underlying emotional motivations in the precepts, concepts, and attitudes of modern man. As he demonstrates through this series of essays, motivated thinking infiltrates, and often dominates, prevailing patterns of thought in social, religious, cultural, and even scientific organizations.

Índice

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Wish and Vision
• Faith and the Infidels
• Cavernous Emotions
• Motives and Mind
• The Old and the Wise
• Silence Is Yellow
• The Rationalizers
• Pax Romanitas
• Daydreams and Nightmares
• The Law Is Guilty
• The Devil and the Skin
• The Crime of Punishment
• Quanta Theories
• Shoddy Emotions and Shoddy Ideas
• The Museum of Words
• The Naked King
• The Logic of Snobbism
• Heart and the Mind
• Brain-washing and Brain-soiling
• The New Slave Society
• The Sick and the Sinning
• Sages and Sycophants
• Science and the Good Thought
• On Grading and Degrading Students
• Book Knowledge and Knavery
• Copyright Page