By the Grace of Guile The Role of Deception in Natural History and Human Affairs

Name: By the Grace of Guile The Role of Deception in Natural History and Human Affairs
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ISBN: 9780195075083

ISBN-10: 0195075080

ISBN-13: 9780195075083

Edition: 1994

Authors: Loyal Rue

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In this ambitious, interdisciplinary work, Loyal D. Rue reassesses the value of deception in nature, and in human society, asserting that myths are essential to the health, and even survival, of a culture as a whole. Advancing his theory of the Noble Lie, he maintains that we urgently require a new myth to replace the religious beliefs rejected by the modern mind. Such a Lie, Rue believes, offers our only salvation from the psychological and social chaos now threatened by the spread of scepticism about the meaning of the universe and life. Rue holds our deeply ingrained western bias against deception up to rigorous examination, comparing it to what he calls the natural bias in favour of…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.49" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Introduction



Deception in Historical Perspective


The Ancient Period


The Medieval Period


The Modern Period


The Contemporary Period



Deception in Evolutionary Perspective


The Nature of Deception


Deception in Nature



Deception and Personal Wholeness


The Nature of Self


Personal Wholeness


Deception and Self-Esteem



Deception and Social Coherence


The Nature of Society


The Conditions of Social Coherence


Deception and the Social Order



The Saving Grace of Noble Lies


An Age of Kulturkampf


The Noble-Lie Option


A Federation of Meaning


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index