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However, many editors are apt to interpret your likening their arguments to small- and closed-mindedness as a civility lapse and aspersion-casting, if not an outright personal attack. Expect to be questioned as to your motive for quoting Emerson or Wilde insulting people with whom they disagreed.
Psychological mindedness refers to a person's capacity for self-examination, self-reflection, introspection and personal insight.It includes an ability to recognize meanings that underlie overt words and actions, to appreciate emotional nuance and complexity, to recognize the links between past and present, and insight into one's own and others' motives and intentions.
I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I". The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
There are over 70 million boomers. If you grant that a full third are jerks, that's about 23 million tiresome, cranky, close-minded people.
The first stage is a strict perception that causes one to persist in their ways and be close-minded to other things. [7] The second involves a motive to defend the ego. [7] The third stage is that it is a part of one's personality and you can see it in their perception, cognition, and social interactions. [7]
Double-mindedness is a concept used in the philosophy and theology of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard as insincerity, egoism, or fear of punishment.The term was used in the Bible in the Epistle of James.
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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.