Search -
Politically Incorrect Dialogues.Topics Not Discussed in Polite Circles.(Value Inquiry Book Series 82)
Politically Incorrect DialoguesTopics Not Discussed in Polite Circles - Value Inquiry Book Series 82 Author:Howard P. Kainz, Robert Ginsberg This book is about questions that one would hesitate to ask in certain groups, because the questioning itself would mark him or her as an outsider, or a "liberal", or a "conservative," or a reactionary interested in resurrecting issues which have been satisfactorily settled. But Western philosophy, jump-started by the Socratic dialogues memorial... more »ized by Plato, has traditionally concerned itself with reexamining meanings and values that many thought "settled" once and for all. In this book the interlocutors, who disagree about almost everything, nevertheless search for areas of agreement as they continue in this Socratic tradition.« less