Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality [Audiobook] download free by Theodore Dalrymple
- Listen audiobook: Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
- Author: Theodore Dalrymple
- Release date: 2015/3/8
- Publisher: ENCOUNTER BOOKS,USA
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781594037870
- Rating: 8.74 of 10
- Votes: 762
- Review by: Johnny Flowers
- Review rating: 8.78 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/6
- Duration: 1H34M33S in 256 kbps (25.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, ATRAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG4 (compression LZ, ZIP, RAR, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 128
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M43S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy Of Science, Philosophy Of Mind, Psychology, Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 19.30 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x23mm
- Weight: 298g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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