Your Brain's Politics电子书

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Front matter

Title page

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Dedication

A Note About This Book

Body matter

1. Normal Thought: Reasoning in Metaphors

1.1. The Embodied Mind: Things we don’t know about our reasoning

1.2. Metaphoric Thought is Physical: How metaphors enter our brain

1.3. Metaphoric Thought is Inescapable: Not all arguments can be arguments

1.4. Metaphoric Thought is Unconscious: Our mind’s very private contemplations

1.5. Metaphors Don’t Come Alone: The many different ways to reason about things

1.6. The Cultural Brain: Why humans cannot all think alike

1.7. The Secret Selectors: How metaphors determine what we don’t think

1.8. We Do as We Think: Acting out metaphors

1.9. The Public Brain: Metaphors in political discourse

2. How to Parent a Nation: The Role of Idealized Family Models for Politics

2.1. Dirty Thoughts and Low Blows: Metaphors and morality

2.2. Founding Fathers and Homeland: How we conceptualize nationhood

2.3. As You Deal with Children, So with Citizens You Shall Deal: Parenting and politics

3. Moral Politics Theory: The Strict Father and Nurturant Parent Models

3.1. Governing with a Firm Hand: The Strict Father model and conservatism

3.2. The Strongest Might Not Survive: The misinterpretation of Darwin

3.3. By the Hand of Adam Smith: Moral markets

3.4. Governing with an Empathic Eye: The Nurturant Parent model and progressivism

3.5. The Commonwealth Principle: Moral taxation

3.6. Idealized Reality: Of strict mothers and nurturant fathers

4. Morality, Times Two: How We Acquire and Navigate Two Moral Systems

4.1. The Physiology of Two Concepts: Social dominance and social empathy

4.2. Morality, Times Two: Strict and Nurturant worldview

4.3. Torn By Principle: Biconceptualism

5. Deciding Politics: Why People Vote Values

5.1. The Reagan Phenomenon: How to win against political interests

5.2. Time to Backpedal: The political middle isn’t there

5.3. The End of Rationalism: Why there are no rational voters

5.4. Facts Need Frames: The nonsense of purely factual communication

6. Political Framing: Value Laden Words

6.1. The Brain’s Filter: Frames and facts

6.2. The Dog that was a Man: Frames and perception

6.3. Don’t Try Not to Think: Frames and negation

6.4. The Laden Tax Debate: Conservative taxation frames

6.5. What is it We’re Debating? Issue defining frames

6.6. Values to be Mindful of: Conservative and progressive worldviews

6.7. The Manipulated Brain: Framing versus propaganda

7. “God Bless America”: Religion, Metaphor, and Politics

7.1. “Our Father...”: Metaphors for God

7.2. Moral Religion: How God’s commandments arise from our embodied mind

7.3. Abraham and Isaac: ...and the moral of the story?

7.4. Religious Politics: For whose God’s sake?

7.5. God’s Favorite Children: The necessary objectivism of holy scripts

7.6. To Tolerate or Not to Tolerate? A question of religious values

8. Words with No (Single) Meaning: Communication and Contested Concepts

8.1. Two Lands of the Free: Why we hear what we think

8.2. Empty Words that We Don’t Get: Metaphors for communication

8.3. Embodied Communication: The world in our brains

8.4. The Never-Ending Semantic Battle: Contested concepts

8.5. In the Name of Two Freedoms: Contested concepts and political communication

9. “Once Upon a Time...”: The Fairytale of Objective Journalism

9.1. Objective Reporting: Ideal and reality

9.2. The Custodians of Conceptual Freedom: Conscious journalism

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