The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out

Leonard Peikoff, "The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out"

ISBN: 0451234812, 0451466640 | 2012 | EPUB | 400 pages | 661 KB


With his groundbreaking and controversial DIM hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought, and thereby on Western culture and history.

In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, or separate laws into a Constitution, or single events into a story. The first method, in which data is integrated through rational means, he calls Integration. The second, which employs non-rational means, he calls Misintegration. The third is Disintegration—which is nihilism, the desire to tear things apart