The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Minogue, Kenneth
The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Minogue, Kenneth

The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was the fate of miserable victims of communist...
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Author: Kenneth Minogue
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The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Minogue, Kenneth

The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

$321.69
The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Minogue, Kenneth

The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

$321.69
Author: Kenneth Minogue
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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One of the grim 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 at the same time as 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 assert 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 looks at 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.


Author: Kenneth Minogue
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.20w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9781594033810

About the Author
Kenneth Minogue is Emeritus Professor of political science at the London School of Economics. He has written books on liberalism, nationalism, the idea of a university, the logic of ideology, and, more recently, on democracy and the moral life. He has reviewed in many places, and has been a columnist for the Times, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and other outlets.
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