Empires of Belief : Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First...

Empires of Belief : Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century, Hardcover by Sim, Stuart, ISBN 0748623264, ISBN-13 9780748623266, Like New Used, Free shipping in the USChallenges all forms of fundamentalism and unexamined belief systems from a philosophical and sceptical viewpoint. Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? The growth of religious fundamentalism seems to suggest so. For the sceptically minded, this is a deeply worrying trend, not justconfined to religion. Political, economic, and scientific theories can demand the same unquestioning obedience from the general public. Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Setting out what asceptical politics might be like, Empires of Belief argues that we need less belief and more doubt: an engaged scepticism to replace the pervasive dogmatism that threatens our democracies.