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The Servile Mind
Kenneth R. Minogue
其他書名
How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life
出版Encounter Books, 2010
主題Philosophy / Ethics & Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Public Policy / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
ISBN15940338119781594033810
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dLZfHw6c0b4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋One of the grimmer comedies of the twentieth century was the fate of miserable victims of communist regimes who climbed walls, swam rivers, dodged bullets and found other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West. Simultaneously, intellectuals in the West sentimentally proclaimed that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is being played out in our century: as the victims of despotism and backwardness from third world nations pour into Western states, the same ivory tower intellectuals explain that Western life is a nightmare of inequality and oppression. In The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life, Kenneth Minogue explores the intelligentsia’s love affair with social perfection and reveals how that idealistic dream is destroying exactly what has made the inventive Western world irresistible to the peoples of foreign lands. The Servile Mind analyzes how Western morality has evolved into mere “politico-moral” posturing about admired ethical causes - from solving world poverty and creating peace to curing climate change. Today, merely making the correct noises and parading one’s essential decency by having the correct opinions has became a substitute for individual moral actions. Instead, Minogue posits, we ask that our government carry the burden of solving our social – and especially moral – problems for us. The sad and frightening irony is that as we allow the state to determine our moral order and inner convictions, the more we need to be told how to behave and what to think.