(PDF) 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
Copy Link to Download : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/B001G8MBEI Book Synopsis You've heard of the Great Books? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these influential books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it.Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In this scintillating new book, he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. You'll learn:Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand) How Descartes's Discourse on Method proved God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own egoHow Hobbes's Leviathan led to the belief that we have a right to whatever we wantWhy Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever writtenHow Darwin's Descent of Man proves he intended survival of the fittest to be applied to human societyHow Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the will to powerHow Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of spiritualized Darwinism that accounts for his genocidal anti-SemitismHow the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of
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You've heard of the Great Books? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these influential books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it.Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In this scintillating new book, he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. You'll learn:Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand) How Descartes's Discourse on Method proved God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own egoHow Hobbes's Leviathan led to the belief that we have a right to whatever we wantWhy Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever writtenHow Darwin's Descent of Man proves he intended survival of the fittest to be applied to human societyHow Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the will to powerHow Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of spiritualized Darwinism that accounts for his genocidal anti-SemitismHow the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of
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