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THE POLITICAL MIND
Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
George Lakoff
Viking Adult, 2008
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Identify characterizations of the two dominant mental sets in American politics
• Understand how these are related to frames, prototypes and metaphors
• Examine ideas about freedom, equality and democracy
• Compare these dominant mental sets in regards to emotion and empathy
• Learn how reason is characterized by the two dominant mental sets
George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Liguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute.
9 CE Credits; 304 pages
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