ETHICAL SELF: On The Nascent Ethical Age Now Beginning

by Jean Ovide Bourdeau

Unless I am already insane or by now deliberately malevolent: I must avoid meaningless pronouncements, absurd statements, pompous quotes, false erudition, glib presentations, theological pontificating, politically-correct talks, doctrinal imperatives, ideological assertions, exaggerated conclusions, managed confusion between facts and values, trendy biases, pretensions of pseudo knowledge, unverified and unproven allegations, unquestionable obscured text, fuzzy meanings, values and standards, stupid or unsupported or plainly absurd analogies, subversive intellectual aggression against open-ended reasoning, appeals to manufactured authority instead of lucid and rationally consistent logic, and other pernicious anti-intellectual strategies and tactics meant for the conquest of our minds. I must also insist to live in bliss in an environment wherein all 'Inalienable Individual Rights' are respected, because it is the absolute respect of these rights that guarantee we and our society become ethical.

266 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2014