Ideocritique
Description
Tom Amarque:
"Ideocritique may be defined as a method of analyzing, evaluating, and opposing ideological and religious systems through the disciplined application of critical thinking. It likewise entails opposition to all forms of critique of these systems that are themselves uncritical—those grounded not in reasoned analysis but in affective bias, resentment, prejudice, or mere opinion.
While critical thinking is a general capacity, Ideocritique constitutes its focused application to the ideological and theological domain. It rests on a four-quadrant analysis (cf. Wilber) of the explicit and implicit costs and benefits of any given belief system and ideology, seeking to arrive at a balanced and dispassionate assessment of its psychological, political, economic, ecological, intra-cultural, and structural effects."