Education

The opportunistic marketable/salable character

Excerpt from Prof. Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950). (Op.cit. p.99): “The attitude common to the teachings of the founders of all great Eastern...

Cognitive liberticide

Liberticide = “destruction of liberty”. adjective liberticidal = “destructive of liberty”. after the French noun combining form liberticide: liberté, liberty + -i- + -cide,...

Peer-reviewed articles

Peters, T.. (2020). The Struggle for Cognitive Liberty: Retrofitting the Self in Activist Theology. Theology and Science Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786219 DOI URL directSciHub...

Aldous Huxley – Brave new world

David Hume – “Essays Moral, Political, Literary” (1777)

Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by...

Ludwig Wittgenstein – Aspect Blindness

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy...

Bertrand Russel on education and freedom of thought

Free thought and official propaganda : delivered at South Place Institute on March 24, 1922 “Manwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all...

Bordieu’s Habitus & Hexis

The term habitus (/ˈhæbɪtəs/) refers to ingrained habits, skills, and psychological/behavioral  dispositions. It is the way that individuals perceive the social world around them...

Chomsky & Herman propaganda model

The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky to explain how propaganda and systemic...