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    About the Author

    The author has lived a colourful life with service in the Air Force.

    He then became a qualified accountant, a financial director and

    later a fully qualified counsellor.

    His first love has always been books and he eventually became an

    antiquarian book dealer. This book is the result of his

    comprehensive reading.

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    To Margaret 

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    Copyright © Robert Muddiman (2015)

    The right of Robert Muddiman to be identified as author of this

    work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and

    78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be

    reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any

    form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

    recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the

     publishers.

    Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims

    for damages.

    A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British

    Library.

    ISBN 978 1 84963 978 1

    www.austinmacauley.com

    First Published (2015)

    Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.

    25 Canada Square

    Canary WharfLondon

    E14 5LB

    Printed and bound in Great Britain

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    Contents

    1 Man & Man in Society 13 

    2 The Self & Your Attitude 26 

    3 The World & Your Attitude 37 

    4 Synopsis 57 

    5 Appendices –  A –  P 58 

    6 Select Bibliography 59 

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    YOU’VE GOT A PROBLEM 

    WELL ACTUALLY, YOU’VE GOT TWO –  YOUR

    ATTITUDE TO YOURSELF AND YOUR ATTITUDE TO

    THE OUTSIDE WORLD

    Each attitude will necessarily be affected by the other

    and by all the sub-attitudes you may also have.

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     Karl Popper “I think that the main task of philosophy is to

    speculate critically about the universe and our place in it.” 

     Freud  “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does notrest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly

    repeated rebuffs, it is successful. This is one of the few points

    about which one may be optimistic about mankind.” 

     Russell  “There is no rational ground for despair; the means forhappiness of the human race exists, and it is only necessary

    that the human race should choose to use them.” 

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    1

    M a n & M a n i n S o c i e t y

    We, man, have now come to that point in

    biological history, where we are responsible

     for our own evolution.

    (Abraham Maslow)

    All humans share the same sort of problems. How should welive? What can we do to make ourselves happier? How can we

     best train and educate ourselves? What should our attitude be

    to our family, our neighbours, our fellow citizens and theoutside world? What do we think is happening in the outside

    world? And how do we think this is going to affect us now and

    in the future? And what do we think should be happening inthe outside world?

    To try to answer all these problems, it is best that we try tounderstand ourselves first (who we are, how we got here, and

    in fact, where are we?), and then the outside world (what sortof world, environment or culture are we living in?).

    Outline

    a) 

    Society And Belonging

     b)  Cooperationc)  Humanness And Evolution

    d) 

    Culturee)  Cultural Adaptation (See Appendix A1 For “The Cultural

    Environment”) 

    f) 

    Social Exclusiong) 

    Capitalism

    h)  The Market Society