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This is an extended quote from Viktor Frankl on the limitations of "reductionism" – what might be called the tendency to reduce human behavior to "nothing but ___" (insert whatever lens you want, biology, physics, evolutionary psychology, etc.). I love his analogy in the figures below. This is kind of a wordy quote from this book, but overall I find Frankl to be a very clear writer. If you want to go a little beyond his famous Man's Search for Meaning, this would be a great next book to read. To me, Frankl still the most clear and straightforward psychologist who works from a generally spiritual worldview. "Reducing conscience to the mere result of conditioning processes is but one instance of reductionism. I would define reductionism as a pseudoscientific approach which disregards and ignores the humanness of phenomena by making them into mere epiphenomena, more specifically, by reducing them to subhuman phenomena. In fact, one could define reductionism as sub-humanism... ...Let

This is an extended quote from Viktor Frankl on the limitations of "reductionism" – what might be called the tendency to reduce human behavior to "nothing but ___" (insert whatever lens you want, biology, physics, evolutionary psychology, etc.). I love his analogy in the figures below. This is kind of a wordy quote from this book, but overall I find Frankl to be a very clear writer. If you want to go a little beyond his famous Man's Search for Meaning , this would be a great next book to read. To me, Frankl still the most clear and straightforward psychologist who works from a generally spirit

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