Liberating the Mind

Linda Elder

doi:10.5771/9781538137635

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-3762-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-3763-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: Back Cover1
Product type: Book Titles

1. FOREWORD No access
2. DEDICATION No access
3. CONTENTS No access
4. PREFACE: COMMANDING THE DARK SIDE WITHIN No access
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
1. Sociocentric Thought Should Be Distinguished from Sociological Thought No access
2. Humans Are Influenced by Groups within Groups No access
3. 1. The Logic of Groupishness No access
  2. 1. Many Group-Validated Beliefs Are Dangerous No access
  3. 1. Groups Impose Ideologies on Group Members No access
    2. People Tend to Blindly Conform to Group Rules and Groupthink No access
    3. Group Conformity Is Often Dangerous No access
    4. Dissenters Are Frequently Punished No access
  4. Groupishness, Group Validation, Group Control, and Group Conformity Interconnect and Interact No access
4. Some Historical Notes on Sociocentric Thinking No access
5. Concepts in Natural Languages That Imply Sociocentric Thinking or Its Opposite No access
1. Mass Media Shape and Are Shaped by Sociocentric Thinking No access
2. Unbridled Global Capitalism Is a Powerful Sociocentric Force in Human Life No access
3. Schooling Is a Prevailing Sociocentric Agent No access
4. Speciescentrism Is a Dangerous Form of Sociocentrism No access
5. Many Studies Illuminate Problems Implicit in Sociocentric Thinking No access
6. 1. Case Notes: Psychology and Psychiatry Often Foster Sociocentric Thought No access
1. The Mind Naturally Generates Concepts and Perspectives That Serve Its Interests No access
2. Humans Often Distort Reality through Irrational Lenses No access
3. People Often Have Trouble Seeing through Ideological Uses of Words No access
4. People Frequently Use Inappropriate Analogies to Serve Sociocentric Interests No access
1. It Is Essential to Distinguish among Questions of Ethics, Social Conventions, Religion, and the Law No access
2. Ethics versus Religion No access
3. Ethics versus Political Ideology No access
4. 1. Overturning Unethical Laws Is Often Difficult Due to Groupthink No access
5. 1. Social Mores Vary across Cultures No access
  2. Taboos Are Prevalent in Human Societies No access
6. Some Acts Are Unethical in and of Themselves No access
1. The Human Mind Is Frequently Irrational while Having the Capacity for Rational Thought No access
2. Humans Are Frequently Egocentric No access
3. Two Primary Tendencies of Egocentric Thought No access
4. Sociocentricity Can Be Directly Linked to Egocentric Thought No access
5. Distinguishing Rational from Egocentric and Sociocentric Thoughts No access
6. Self-Deception Plays a Primary Role in Sociocentric Thought No access
7. Many Complex Relationships Exist between and Among Egocentric, Sociocentric, and Rational Thought No access
8. The Human Mind No access
9. Sociocentric Thought Can Be More Dangerous Than Egocentric Thought No access
10. 1. Egocentric Dominating and Submissive Tendencies Are Often Transformed into Sociocentric Domination and Submission No access
  2. People Often Use Egocentric Standards for Determining What to Believe No access
  3. Sociocentric Standards for Determining What to Believe Are Linked with Egocentric Standards No access
  4. Piaget’s Insights on Egocentricity Can Be Linked to Sociocentric Thought No access
  5. Sociocentric Pathological Tendencies Are Common in Human Life No access
  6. Sociocentric Pathological Tendencies Can Be Challenged No access
  7. Groups Routinely Use Sociocentric Defense Mechanisms No access
11. Intrinsic Cognitive Processes Can Serve Rational, Egocentric, or Sociocentric Agendas No access
1. Cultivating Critical Thinking Is the Key to Fairminded Critical Societies No access
2. Critical Thinking Is Largely Ignored in Today’s Societies No access
3. 20 Barriers to Critical Societies No access
4. Critical Societies Support Maximum Freedoms No access
5. Critical Societies Encourage Intellectual Autonomy and Responsibility No access
6. Critical Societies Entail the Following Six Hallmarks No access
7. Conceptualizing Everyday Ways of Thinking in Critical Societies No access
8. 1. Why Critical Thinking? No access
9. 1. Why the Analysis of Critical Thinking Is Important No access
  2. All Thinking Is Defined by the Eight Elements That Make It Up No access
10. The Elements of Thought and Questions They Imply No access
11. To Evaluate Thinking We Must Understand and Apply Intellectual Standards No access
12. Critical Thinkers Routinely Apply Intellectual Standards to the Elements of Reasoning in Order to Develop Intellectual Virtues No access
13. Critical Thinkers Commit Themselves to the Development of Intellectual Virtues No access
14. Essential Intellectual Traits No access
15. The Mind’s Three Distinctive Functions No access
16. Conclusion: Some Elements of Critical Societies Can Be Found Throughout Human History No access
AFTERWORD BY RICHARD PAUL No access Pages 201 - 202
REFERENCES No access Pages 203 - 209
IMAGE SOURCES No access Pages 210 - 213
APPENDIX A: SOME BASIC DEFINITIONS No access Pages 214 - 223
APPENDIX B: THE LOGIC OF SOCIOCENTRIC THOUGHT No access Pages 224 - 229
INDEX No access Pages 230 - 235
ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 236 - Back Cover1