Brock Chisholm on Truth, Morality and Free Thought

„...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.“

Brock ChisholmBrock Chisholm reflects on truth, moral conventions and the importance of free thought in psychology and society.
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Brock Chisholm was an internationally renowned Canadian psychiatrist and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1948 to 1953.

Brock Chisholm connects the pursuit of truth with a critical view of moral conventions and intellectual freedom.


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Brock Chisholm quote about truth, morality, and free thought

Brock Chisholm (1896–1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist and pediatrician. He played a leading role in the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) and served as its first director-general from 1948 to 1953. Chisholm was a strong advocate for global health, peace, and international cooperation.

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"The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely." Brock Chisholm
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"What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy." Brock Chisholm
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"The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey." Walter Lippmann
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"The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society." Henry Louis Mencken
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