Following reason: a theory and strategy for rational leadership

Throughout history, humanity has regularly followed anti-rational figures and forces: demagogic rulers, perverted deities, exploitative economic systems, and so on.

Such leadership and followership have wrought all kinds of oppression and conflict.

What if this pattern could be altered? What if society were led by Reason instead? Prompted by Cicero's exhortation to 'follow reason as leader as though it were a god', 'Following Reason' explores this intriguing and potentially transformative possibility.

Manolopoulos uniquely blends leadership psychology with a deep understanding of philosophical reasoning theory to show how leaders can bravely reimagine and reconstruct society.

The book retraces leadership mis-steps in history, and proposes a more 'logicentric' theory of leadership, built on compelling philosophical axioms and arguments.