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Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
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Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels. This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can, and does, change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move into the 21st century? More than a simple reference work, this is A.C. Graylings personal and heartfelt guide to the ideas, past and present, that shape our world. Covering religion, philosophy, scientific theory and political movements, each alphabetically ordered entry illuminates, elucidates and provokes. Written with Graylings customary fire and erudition, the result is a book that aims both to arm readers with knowledge and engage them in philosophical debate.

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Acknowledgements

My thanks go to Celia Hayley for her assiduous editorial work and her patience, which latter was considerably taxed but unfailing; she acted as midwife to the project while her own first child was on the way, and her help is warmly appreciated. So too is the invaluable help I received from Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss and Kate Smith-Jones, who I may now count as tutors as well as friends. My thanks go also to Alan Samson, Florence Mackenzie, Sophie Erskine, Felice Schoenberg, Bea Hemming and Catherine Clarke, for the invaluable help they variously gave, directly and indirectly. This project started in a now somewhat remote past in a different guise under the erudite care of Richard Milbank, to whom thanks are due for its very existence. Finally no workaholic scribbler can fail to salute the tolerance and support of long-suffering loved ones who perforce shared house-room with a big and demanding book: with Horace I am moved to say, quod peto hic est, est Ulubris.

Appendix

Entries in the body of the book are alphabetically arranged. Below are the main entry headings grouped according to relations of subject matter, with Politics and Society being subdivided into Politics and Law and Society and Social Questions - this last a more heterogeneous category than the others - followed by Philosophy, Religion and Science. Because of the inevitable problem of lumping and splitting - the question of whether to subsume certain ideas under certain others, or to give each a separate entry - the main headings disguise the fact that a larger number of ideas are discussed than the heading words by themselves suggest; so the index is the key resource and true guide to the contents of this book.

Attentive conning of the lists below will show that a number of headings figure in more than one category - the reasons are obvious enough, and the fact that there is some repetition and overlap in the entries anyway is useful in showing how ideas figure in different settings and conceptual relationships. But each entry is self-standing, and aims to be informative on its own.

The bibliography consists of short indicative lists for each of the entries, intended merely as prompts or starting points for further enquiry.

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Politics and Law

absolutism

activism

anarchism

aristocracy

black consciousness

Black Power

capitalism

class

communism

democracy

economics

equality

Fascism

feminism

freedom of speech

globalization

human rights

identity

justice

law

liberalism

liberty

Marxism

nationalism

neoconservatism

politics

privacy

punishment

socialism

totalitarianism

war

war crimes

Westernization

Society and SocialQuestions

accommodation theory

activism

advertising

anthropocentrism

anti-Semitism

civilization

cognitive therapy

consumerism

economics

education

ethnocentrism

feminism

freedom of speech

future, the

history

human rights

identity

Internet

liberty

love

multiculturalism

postmodernism

privacy

psychoanalysis

psychology

punishment

racism

relativism

religion

Romanticism

science

slavery

sociobiology

technology

terrorism

tolerance

utopia

vegetarianism

war

war crimes

wealth

Westernization

xenophobia

Zeitgeist

PHILOSOPHY

aesthetics

altruism

animal rights

anthropocentrism

autonomy

bioethics

business ethics

cloning

consequentialism

deontology

egoism

Enlightenment

epistemology

equality

ethics

ethics, history of

euthanasia

existentialism

experimental philosophy

falsifiability

game theory

history

humanism

human rights

identity

Intuitionism, mathematical and logical

irrationalism

logic

logic, fallacies of informal

love

meaning, theory of

metaphysics

mind, philosophy of

neurophilosophy

philosophy

positivism

postmodernism

psychology

realism

relativism

Romanticism

scepticism

scientific revolutions

sociobiology

truth

utopia

verificationism

virtue ethics

RELIGION

afterlife

agnosticism

anti-Semitism

atheism

Buddhism

Catholicism

Christianity

creationism

Daoism (Taoism)

fundamentalism

Hinduism and brahmanism

Islam

Judaism

Orthodox Christianity

Protestantism religion

secularism

SCIENCE

anthropic principle

artificial intelligence

Big Bang cosmology

biodiversity

bioethics

biology

biopoiesis

black holes

cloning

cognitive science

evolution

future, the

Internet

neuroscience

quantum mechanics

relativity

science

scientific revolutions

sociobiology

standard model

string theory

technology

A Short Indicative Bibliography

ABSOLUTISM

Filmer, R., Patriarcha and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Hobbes, T., Leviathan (Longman, 2008)

Kelsey, H., Absolutism and Relativism in Philosophy and Politics (Irvington, 1993)

ACCOMMODATION THEORY

Giles, H., Coupland, N., and Coupland, J., Accommodation Theory: Communication, Context, and Consequence, in H. Giles, N. Coupland and J. Coupland (eds.), Contexts of Accommodation: Developments in Applied Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

ACTIVISM

Carson, R., Silent Spring (Penguin Classics, 2000)

Shaw, R., The Activists Handbook (University of California Press, 2001)

Tarrow, S., The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

ADVERTISING

Conrad Levinson, J., and Rubin, C., Guerrilla Advertising (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)

Packard, V., The Hidden Persuaders (Ig Publishing, 2007)

Steel, J., Truth, Lies and Advertising: The Art of Account Planning (John Wiley & Sons, 1998)

AESTHETICS

Bourriaud, N., Relational Aesthetics (Les Presses du Rel, 1998)

Danto, A.C., The Abuse of Beauty (Paul Carus Lectures) (Open Court Publishing Co., 2003)

Dickie, G., Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytic Approach (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997)

AFTERLIFE

The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford Paperbacks, 2008, Matthew 27: 50-4)

Browne, S., and Harrison, L., Life on the Other Side: A Psychics Tour of the Afterlife (Signet, 2001)

Fry, C., Secrets From the Afterlife (Ebury Press, 2008)

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