What Does It All Mean?: A Humanistic Account of Human by William A. Adams

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By William A. Adams

As a tender guy invoice Adams travelled the realm instructing US electorate in a foreign country on behalf of a giant country college at the East Coast. again domestic he mirrored that if there have been solutions to the good questions of lifestyles, then he’d now not came across them - now not in India, in Europe, in China, or Japan. In time he got here to work out that his lifelong curiosity in how the brain works may be the clue to the that means of lifestyles. Socrates have been correct all alongside: be aware of thyself. Adams now units out a brand new reasoned argument, in accordance with his event as a cognitive psychologist and as a man or woman, to teach why Socrates was once correct: the aim of existence is to acknowledge ourselves - in one another and in all issues. The brain is seeking itself: that's the way it works, that's what it does for a living.

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