A Student's Guide to Right, Left and Truth /
Alan E. Singer.
- 1 online resource (144 pages)
- Political Science and History Ser. .
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Preface -- Chapter 1 Shadows: Projecting Left and Right -- Chapter 2 Truths: Voting against Pythagoras -- Chapter 3 Goods: Freedom, Justice and More -- Chapter 4 Likes: The Art of the Cheeseburger -- Chapter 5 Hopes: Flights and Songs -- Chapter 6 Ethics: The Gold That Rules -- Chapter 7 Timing: Worry About That Later -- Chapter 8 Capitals: Sacred Cows and Other Forms -- Chapter 9 Limits: The Known Limitations of Markets -- Chapter 10 Well-Regulated Capitalism -- Chapter 11 Taxes: Looking High and Low -- Chapter 12 Strategies: Two Sides, Many Arenas -- Chapter 13 Dynamics: The Evolution of Death -- Chapter 14 Intentions: The Road to Hell -- Chapter 15 Distractions: 500,000 Is More Than 43 -- References -- About the Author -- Index.
This book is an augmented adaptation of the author's 2018 book Understanding Left and Right (Nova). It further reinforces the message that sustained truth-seeking leads people toward the political center. Each chapter offers divide-bridging discussions of issues such as regulation, taxation, corporate-strategy and personal identity, along with the very ideas of knowledge, truth and goodness. Selected chapters from either work would fit easily into just about every college level course across the spectrum of business studies, social sciences and humanities, almost certainly provoking lively comments. This might seem like an exaggerated marketing claim for any serious book, but readers are strongly urged to try it...and see what happens!