A couple I've gotten good discussions from are: Ideas have consequences by Richared Weaver- it is a bit of a polemic against liberalism but does promote good debate. A particularly good chapter "The Spoiled-Child Psychology" which proports to link us with alienation and "sloth". A second possibility is the chapter "The Power of the Word," which discusses changing word usage across time. It claims that this "liberalization" of word use foreshadowis the "destructive effects" of PC word usage. Another would be Schumacher's "Small is beautiful: Economics as if people mattered". The "Taking Sides" series are usually good for short pithy readings. Tim Shearon Albertson College of Idaho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 8/31/2004 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Dangerous Ideas!
Jim Dougan wrote:
So, in essence, the class is looking at the philosophical fact/value
problem by examining some controversial issues.
Have you looked at Wolfgang Koehler's 1938 book, _The Place of Value in a
World of Facts_? It is, of course, now rather dated, but represents the attempt of a
significant research pyschologist to address questions of this sort in Germany just
prior to the outbreak of WWII. The first chapter is entitled, "The Case Against
Science." Indeed, looking through your list of "dangerous ideas," I note than many of
them are science related. Perhaps science itself is a "dangerous idea" you should
include.
Koehler's activites just prior to the war are still interesting to contemplate
-- his lab was sabotaged by Nazi-supporting students and he was ultimately forced to
leave the coutnry. They are recounted in an _American Psychologist_ article by Mary
Henle: "One man against the Nazis: Wolfgang Koehler" (
<http://80-web5s.silverplatter.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/webspirs/doLS.ws?ss=American-Psychologist+in+SO>
Oct 1978; Vol 33 (10): 939-944).
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
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