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In Praise of Folly: The Blind-spots of Our Mind

Theodore Dalrymple

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas’s Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible – the folly of eminent people. Praised for their attainments in one area, high-achievers are more often than not prone to unexpected failings elsewhere. Enter a large cast of anti- and vivisectionists, surgeons, theologians, philosophers, admirals, judges, astrophysicists, Nazi-leaning homoeopaths, and writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, P.G. Wodehouse, and Conan Doyle. In his pithy and amusing style, Dalrymple casts a sobering light on an insuppressible trait of ours – the fallibility of the human mind.

Pages: 195

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Gibson Square

Release: September 05, 2019

In Praise of Folly: The Blind-spots of Our Mind

Theodore Dalrymple

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas’s Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible – the folly of eminent people. Praised for their attainments in one area, high-achievers are more often than not prone to unexpected failings elsewhere. Enter a large cast of anti- and vivisectionists, surgeons, theologians, philosophers, admirals, judges, astrophysicists, Nazi-leaning homoeopaths, and writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, P.G. Wodehouse, and Conan Doyle. In his pithy and amusing style, Dalrymple casts a sobering light on an insuppressible trait of ours – the fallibility of the human mind.

Pages: 195

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Gibson Square

Release: September 05, 2019

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