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 22 Feb 2007 @ 00:14
Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? The growth of religious fundamentalism seems to suggest so. For the skeptically-minded this is a deeply worrying trend, not just confined to religion. Political, economic, and scientific theories can demand the same unquestioning obedience from the general public. Stuart Sim outlines the history of skepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Setting out what a skeptical politics might be like, "Empires of Belief" argues that we need less belief and more doubt: an engaged skepticism to replace the pervasive dogmatism that threatens our democracies.
Stuart Sim is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Sunderland. More >
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 21 Feb 2007 @ 21:09
The following was from an article in a French paper (Liberation), dated January 10, 2007: More >
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 21 Feb 2007 @ 20:43
It ain't over 'til it's over.
- Rocky Balboa
If the French or Americans don't see similarities in their socio-political systems, they are utterly wrong. There is a lot of similarities between what is happening in France right now, and what has been going on here in the US. More >
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 20 Feb 2007 @ 01:05
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 19 Feb 2007 @ 21:25
Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power, and is widely considered to be among the classics in the field of science fiction.
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