Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality by Dalrymple, Theodore
Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality by Dalrymple, Theodore

Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises...
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Author: Theodore Dalrymple
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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality by Dalrymple, Theodore

Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality

CHF 21.82
Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality by Dalrymple, Theodore

Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality

CHF 21.82
Author: Theodore Dalrymple
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures.

Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind.

Admirable Evasions also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.


Author: Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 09/22/2020
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781641771887

About the Author
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired physician and psychiatrist. He is a contributing editor of City Journal and frequent contributor to the London Spectator, The New Criterion, and other leading magazines and newspapers. He is most recently author of Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline, Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas, and Threats of Pain and Ruin.
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