(1940). Psychoanalytic Review, 27:243-244 Adler, Mortimer J. What Man has made of Man. New York-Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co. $3.50. Dr. Adler is Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Chicago and he here essays to tell us the consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology. It is not without a certain amount of curiosity that one finds an introduction by Dr. Franz Alexander—who among other things states that his approach and conclusions to a problem are the direct opposite of those of the author; and yet he writes an introduction under the facile rationalization that one is apt to get one's nose too near the grind stone and maybe lose perspective. Yet Alexander does emphasize the radical antithesis between psychoanalytic empiricism and the thomistic positivism of the author, steeped in Aristotle and in Thomas Aquinas; all stated in a forest of woods. To Adler “philosophy is a body of logical conclusions drawn from common sense observations.” One can understand a bit of one's amusement at the innumerable philosophies all apparently mused on ‘c [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
