An Ayn Rand scholar uses three methods he created to demonstrate historical and future trends in the fields of literature, physics, education, and politics and discusses his theory that the United States is losing its dominance in these areas.
In hisgroundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts apenetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Westernculture and history.In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the threemethods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connectingdiverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution,or single events into a story. The first method, in which data is integratedthrough rational means, he calls Integration. The second, which employs nonrationalmeans, he calls Misintegration. The third is Disintegration—which is nihilism,the desire to tear things apart.In The DIM Hypothesis Peikoff demonstratesthe power of these three methods in shaping the West by using the categories toexamine the culturally representative fields of literature, physics, education,and politics. His analysis illustrates how the historical trends in each fieldhave been dominated by one of these three categories, not only today but duringthe 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—andpredicts the most likely future for the United States.
In his groundbreaking and controversial book The 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, 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 nonrational 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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