The Art of Thinking.

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.

An analytical examination of the role emotional elements play in the formulation of logical propositions. The widely known philosopher traces underlying motivations in precepts, concepts and attitudes of modern man. Motivated thinking infiltrates, often dominates, prevailing patterns of thought in social, religious, cultural and even scientific organizations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.