Admirable Evasions  -  Theodore Dalrymple

How Psychology Undermines Morality

KORTE INHOUD

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 ...
2015 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2015 Uitgever: Encounter Books 128 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1594037876 ISBN-13: 9781594037870