{"product_id":"how-to-keep-from-losing-your-mind-educating-yourself-classically-to-resist-cultural-indoctrination-9781505130775","title":"How to Keep from Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Resist Cultural Indoctrination","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiberal education is nothing other then the aquistion of a free mind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnfortunately, too many of us have a mind shackled by ideologies and moved by outside forces. We're pulled and pushed by trends and the prevailing culture. Higher education has become ridiculously expensive and is producing graduates whose minds are anything but free, filled as they are with the prejudices of their teachers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly when we break these shackles and habitually exercise a free mind can we call ourselves liberally educated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Keep from Losing Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Deal Hudson will show you how to avoid the false open-mindedness and groupthink of the modern \"-isms\" promoted by the PC arbiters of our cultural milieu. Instead you'll learn to: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForm the habit of reconsideration, the key to a truly open mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEntertain doubts about your own immediate opinions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArgue coherently from first principles, instead of repeating ideological talking points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecognize prejudice and propaganda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvoid sloganeering and engage in real thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book will enable every person to rise above the shouting, the name-calling, and the brutal incivility of public discourse and rediscover the pleasure and benefit of contemplating the meaning and noble aims of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Deal W. Hudson has taught philosophy at three major universities, served as publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine and www.thechristianreview.com, and now hosts a weekly radio show, Church and Culture, on the Ave Maria Radio Network. Educated at the University of Texas-Austin, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Emory University, Dr. Hudson is grateful for all the great teachers he met along the way.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50393835012370,"sku":"9781505130775","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b14c307-0820-439c-8260-97a15727f823.jpg?v=1728995224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-keep-from-losing-your-mind-educating-yourself-classically-to-resist-cultural-indoctrination-9781505130775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}