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About Roderick Hindery
Roderick Hindery, now retired, taught from 1968-1997 as a professor in social and comparative ethics in the Religious Studies Departments of Temple University, California State University at Northridge and Fullerton; also at Arizona State University.
His major publications include the seminal book, Comparative Ethics in Hindu and Buddhist Traditions, and many papers and essays about comparative religious ethics and social issues.
His latest book, Indoctrination and Self-Deception or Free and Critical Thought?, is published by Mellen Press.
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FROM CATHOLIC ETHICS TO COMPARATIVE ETHICS
I was interviewed and hired as Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Temple University in 1968 in view of my specialization in Christian ethics and Catholic moral theology. After studies at the Catholic University of America, I had earned a doctorate in moral theology at the Lateran University’s new special institute in Rome for the […]
Scientific authority and blind consent
If religious faith is indoctrinated, it stems less from ourselves than from a source outside us, which controls us in various degrees and which may even robotize our thinking entirely. The same may be applied to political, economic, or even scientific thought. Granted, to seek information from specialists is critically necessary. But it makes a […]
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Propaganda and Critical Thought, Specialists Need
If we in the general public attempt even the tiniest insights into the nature and source of reality, we may rely solely on the authority of specialists like theorists in particle theory or astrophysics. If we do that, we risk losing the ability to think for ourselves about things which concern not only specialists, but […]
Side-effects of indoctrination
Indoctrination not only impedes autonomous thinking as an immediate result, but it generates side-effects in the ongoing future. If faith in God, for example, is indoctrinated rather than generated from inside us, it is less valuable and authentic. It is not we who believe, as much as some source outside us which controls and even […]
Propaganda test
Complexity of the universe, why?
August 23, 2014. Why has the universe/multi-verse emerged or been created with such complexity? Was there no alternative? Does the complexity of the universe point to intelligence or random lack of it? Would a genuinely intelligent source create a universe so infinitely and bizarrely complex? Complications are innumerable; to name a few: singularities, black holes […]
Terrorists admit propaganda is a goal
August 1, 2014 Terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East openly proclaim that not only physical violence but propaganda itself is one of their main goals. The effects of physical violence are not merely physical. They also function as threats whose predominant and long-range effects are predominately psychological and function as long-range indoctrination […]