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Admirable Evasions - How Psychology Undermines Morality (Paperback)
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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.
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