Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

by Thomas Szasz

Book Overview

The human mind abhors the absence of explanation, but full understanding is never possible. Human understanding is likely to be incomplete at best and, more often, utterly fallacious. To make matters worse, it is likely to be supported as truth and wisdom by religious and scientific authority, intellectual fashion and social convention. In Words to the Wise, Thomas Szasz offers a compendium of thoughts, observations, and aphorisms that address...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765802171
• ISBN13: 9780765802170
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"