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The DIM Hypothesis - Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out (Paperback)
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The DIM Hypothesis - Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out (Paperback)
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With his groundbreaking and controversial DIM hypothesis, Dr.
Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of
human thought, and thereby on Western culture and history. In this
far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use
to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse
experiments by a scientific theory, or separate laws into a
Constitution, or single events into a story. The first method, in
which data is integrated through rational means, he calls
Integration. The second, which employs non-rational means, he calls
Misintegration. The third is Disintegration--which is nihilism, the
desire to tear things apart. In" The DIM Hypothesis" Peikoff
demonstrates the power of these three methods in shaping the West,
by using the categories to examine the culturally representative
fields of literature, physics, education, and politics. His
analysis illustrates how the historical trends in each field have
been dominated by one of these three categories, not only today but
during the whole progression of Western culture from its beginning
in Ancient Greece. Extrapolating from the historical pattern he
identifies, Peikoff concludes by explaining why the lights of the
West are going out--and predicts the most likely future for the
United States.
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