Armageddon Or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World ProblemsWe are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions. |
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... narrow , short - sighted topics that avoid the big picture of the problems of the human race . We read about miniscule problems or miniscule solutions — like financial links between drugmak- ers and prescribing doctors or providing ...
... narrow , short - sighted topics that avoid the big picture of the problems of the human race . We read about miniscule problems or miniscule solutions — like financial links between drugmak- ers and prescribing doctors or providing ...
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... narrow ways relative to the incredible complexity of the human being , as illustrated by the number of unique experiences we have all had in the past . We are all , then , invisible to a great degree . Yet I believe that we can learn to ...
... narrow ways relative to the incredible complexity of the human being , as illustrated by the number of unique experiences we have all had in the past . We are all , then , invisible to a great degree . Yet I believe that we can learn to ...
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... narrow emotional commitments of specialists like the Cogitants , Technicants , and Valiants but a broad com- mitment to one's own development or evolution as well as that of society . The commitment is not a narrow one to the progress ...
... narrow emotional commitments of specialists like the Cogitants , Technicants , and Valiants but a broad com- mitment to one's own development or evolution as well as that of society . The commitment is not a narrow one to the progress ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Physical and Biological Structures | 23 |
Personality Structures | 57 |
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