1st Edition

Following Reason A Theory and Strategy for Rational Leadership

By Mark Manolopoulos Copyright 2019
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout history, humanity has regularly followed anti-rational figures and forces: demagogic rulers, perverted deities, exploitative economic systems, and so on. Such leadership and followership have wrought all kinds of oppression and conflict. What if this pattern could be altered? What if society were led by Reason instead? Prompted by Cicero’s exhortation to "follow reason as leader as... Read more

Series Editor Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Chapter 1: DEFINING LEADING

Skepticism Toward Skepticism

Changing Situations

Maintaining Contested Situations

Chapter 2: DIFFERENTIATING LEADING FROM MANAGING

Distinguishing and Confusing the Two

History’s Glorified Managers

Chapter 3: FOREGROUNDING FOLLOWING

Reversal’s Value

Declaration of Interdependence

Chapter 4: RETHINKING REASON AS LEADER

From "The Thinker" to Epistocratic Democracy

From Platonic Epistocracy to Democratic Logicracy

Realizing Logicracy: On the Way to a Strategy

Chapter 5: FAITHFULLY FOLLOWING REASON

Toward a Quasi-Religious Following

Spreading the Good/Better News

A Skeptical Obedience

Logicracy’s People Power

References

Biography

Dr Mark Manolopoulos is a Research Associate in Philosophy at Monash University, and a former Research Fellow at Swinburne University’s Leadership Institute. He is the author of Radical Neo-Enlightenment (2018), If Creation is a Gift (2009), editor of With Gifted Thinkers (2009), and the author of numerous scholarly journal articles and op-ed pieces.