Book review: The Nazi Doctors: a study in the psychology of evil; Murderous Science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies and others, Germany, 1933-45; Racial Hygiene: medicine under the NazisSteven Rose
This compelling exploration delves into the intricacies of a world where morality blurs, echoing the thought-provoking question posed within its pages: ‘Few people see themselves as evil… What about when one person’s idea of good conflicts with someone else’s?’ This book navigates the compl...
Ladd, and others also, recognize the evil of “clandestine” metaphysics when smuggled into what claims to be purely “scientific” non-philosophical treatments of psychology. Psychology is not in the same position as the physical sciences here. Whilst investigating a question in geology, chemistry...
The evidence that has been offered to date for the real existence of UFOs–not, please note, of alien spaceships, but simply of things seen in the skies that have not yet been adequately identified by witnesses or investigators, which again is what the term actually means–would have been a...
and China. Each chapter deepens the reader’s understanding of psychology in its global context outside the boundaries of Western culture. In so doing, the book initiates a post-colonial re-narration showing that the story of psychology is wider and deeper than many contemporary origin stories su...
We are overly fragile and see conflict and friction as evil. We aim to be fair and democratic, deferential and agreeable at the same time but we fail horribly at it. We’re afraid of saying something that could possibly offend someone around us, so we keep our honest opinion to ourselves...
persistent conception is that of thepoet’s ‘gift’ as compensatory: the Muse took away the sight ofDemodocos’s eyes but ‘gave him the lovely gift of song’ (in theOdyssey), as the blindedTiresiasis given prophetic vision.Dubious, certainly, is the widespread view thatneuroticism- and ...
s emotions or intentions – good or evil – even before that person is aware of them. Counselors themselves can seldom tell how they came to read others’ feelings so keenly. This extreme sensitivity to others could very well be the basis of the Counselor’s remarkable ability to experience ...
This book highlights the oft neglected moral aspect of "the self," examining the variety of neurological, psychological, and social processes that enter into the development and maintenance of moral orientations.
I read it with a growing mix of horror and, yes, admiration.The word “wager” in the book’s title recalls the infamous “Pascal’s Wager”. French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal argued in the 17th century that since there was a possibility that God existed, with the power ...