Words to the Wise

Name: Words to the Wise
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Words to the WiseA Medical-Philosophical Dictionary\nAuthor(s): Thomas Szasz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138518025, 978-1138518025\nSynopsis\nThe 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 our understanding of a broad range of subjects, from birth to death.\n\nIn this book, Szasz tackles a problem intrinsic to the human condition. What problem? In the words of the American humorist Josh Billings: \""The trouble with people is not what they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.\"" Many of Thomas Szasz'.