coherent worldview Concepts

The Techno-Human Condition

by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz · 15 Feb 2011

resulting from the Enlightenment, and its industrial and scientific revolutions, seem to create a strong and necessary commitment to the development of internally consistent and coherent worldviews and ideologies, even as it demands the philosophic flexibility necessary to respond to complex systems unrolling in unpredictable and Complexity, Coherence, Contingency 119 uncertain majesty

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a Level III situation-highly unpredictable and contingent-and failed to adjust. The intellectual confusion that occurs when one applies Level I and Level II coherent worldviews to a Level III condition is quite evident today in the climate-change arena and in the infatuation with "carbon footprints."lo For example, a

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very cognitive network within which we gather data and process knowledge. Any framework or model that can be understood, and that is based on a coherent worldview, is by definition at best only a partial truth. Once could almost say "If you can understand it, it isn't True; and if it

Strategy: A History

by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words

Nazism attempted to demonstrate in practice the suggestibility of the broad masses to political formulas devised by a privileged elite. They sought deliberately to insert coherent worldviews into the consciousness of whole populations and enforce their dictates, sliding over the evident anomalies and inconsistencies and gaps that developed with lived experience. Their

In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis

by Clifton Hood · 1 Nov 2016 · 641pp · 182,927 words

ideas about urban leadership, economic development, poverty, and immigration that had been around for several decades but that until now had never coalesced into a coherent worldview, the memory of the draft riots cemented the emergence of a moral community that was led by the upper class but encompassed the middle class

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt · 26 Dec 2005 · 405pp · 130,840 words

to refer to a system, an idea, or a worldview whose parts fit together in a consistent and efficient way. Coherent things work well: A coherent worldview can explain almost anything, while an incoherent worldview is hobbled by internal contradictions. A coherent profession, such as genetics, can get on with the business

The Road to Character

by David Brooks · 13 Apr 2015 · 353pp · 110,919 words

Boswell’s account we find a man who has achieved some integration. But this was a construction. Through writing and mental effort he constructed a coherent worldview. He brought himself to some coherence without simplification. He became trustworthy and dependable. Johnson also used his writing to try to serve and elevate his

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell

by Neal Stephenson · 3 Jun 2019 · 993pp · 318,161 words

the river, are in a very unsettled state and nothing really makes sense to them, and so trying to get them to buy into a coherent worldview of any sort is a mug’s game.” Julian translated: “Bronze Age shepherds may have been just one step above cavemen, but at least they

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words

, or plan to gradually contract those parts of our economies that endanger us all. And yet each of those rules emerged out of the same, coherent worldview. If that worldview is delegitimized, then all of the rules within it become much weaker and more vulnerable. This is another lesson from social movement

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words

rational economics, the prophet was clear in her righteous judgments. She explained at length in unsolicited letters and shouting matches that her philosophy was a coherent worldview that conflicted with the moral view of Christianity. It was either Atlas Shrugged or the Bible—subscribing to both was heresy. While the priests spoke

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

by Mark Lilla · 19 Oct 2015 · 113pp · 36,039 words

of the individual soul and its inner experience over the domination of traditional communal bonds and illegitimate religious authority. The new orthodoxy brought a perfectly coherent worldview that makes sense of the human condition (we are bodies that are born and die alone), of what lies beyond (nothing), and of what we

Democracy Incorporated

by Sheldon S. Wolin · 7 Apr 2008 · 637pp · 128,673 words

versions. This underscores the contribution of the “public ideology” being promoted by elected Republicans and pseudoconservative ideologues. Although ideologies profess consistency and boast of their coherent “worldview,” there is typically a suppressed, or downplayed subtext in the message. The suppressed component of the prevailing ideology is the political status of corporate power