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Other premises may be offered such as the devil did it,
or the stranger that was around late last week, acting
suspiciously, may have cursed the church or some such
thing. In terms of Authority Reasoning, the logic,
argument and premises, must construe the evidence so
that it supports the authority, as principle and prior
conclusion. Thus the Ideologue argues by the
dynamics of Authority Reasoning.
In the Progressive system, oppositional standards are
used as a means of comparative evaluation, to which
any state or entity is compared, as some degree of
consequence and value, as more or less. The standards
that are used, to which the individual is to correspond
and emulate are termed Authoritative Imperatives.
Authoritative Imperatives are ideals of progressed
states, to which the individual is expected to conform,
such as learning to read, going to college, starting a
nuclear family, purchasing a house or having a good
retirement package. Different expectations are
anticipated in different cultural, class or economic
circumstances, and may not necessarily be absolute. In
more Liberal circles,
the individual may be encouraged to choose an independent path. However the person who believes, that the authority is so great, that
it supersedes the individual's independent wishes, absolutely in all cases and without exception, is an Ideologue.
The Ideologue believes in absolute authority, to which
exceptions should not be allowed, such as a woman
may not have an abortion under any circumstance, or
there should be no sex out of wedlock.
Authoritarianism (17 of 52)
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