Some Common Fallacies in Political Thinking

I Want to discuss and illustrate in this paper certain fallacies which we are all very liable to commit in our thinking about political and social questions. Perhaps “thinking” is rather too high-sounding a name to attach to the mental processes which lie behind most political talk. It is at any rat...

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Published in:Philosophy (London) 1950-04, Vol.25 (93), p.99-113
Main Author: Broad, C. D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communities
Cruelty
Democracy
Economic conditions
Economic resources
Humanity
Industrialization
Militant democracy
Raw materials
War
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Summary:I Want to discuss and illustrate in this paper certain fallacies which we are all very liable to commit in our thinking about political and social questions. Perhaps “thinking” is rather too high-sounding a name to attach to the mental processes which lie behind most political talk. It is at any rate thinking of a very low grade, for a considerable proportion of such discussion in Press and Parliament and private conversation hardly rises above the intellectual level of disputes between boys at a preparatory school.
ISSN:0031-8191
1469-817X
DOI:10.1017/S0031819100008019