Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality

by Theodore Dalrymple

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641771887
• ISBN13: 9781641771887
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"