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Hampden-Turner, Radical Man (New York, 1971) contains a hotchpotch
of surveys and research linking certain humanistic values with
an outlook on life that is subjectively rewarding; but the data are often
only tangentially relevant to the conclusions drawn from them.
On psychopaths, see H. Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity, 5th ed. (St.
Louis, 1976). The remark about requests for help coming from relatives,
not the psychopaths themselves, is on p. viii. The quotation from a
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Notes and References
happy psychopath is from W. and J. McCord, Psychopathy and Delinquency
(New York, 1956), p. 6. On the ability of psychopaths to avoid
prison, see R. D. Hare, Psychopathy (New York, 1970), pp. 111-12.
The 'paradox of hedonism' is discussed by F. H. Bradley in the third
essay of his Ethical Studies; for a psychotherapist's account. see V.
Frankl. The Will to Meaning (London, 1971), pp. 33-4.
On the relation between self-interest and ethics, see the concluding
chapter of Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics; and for a useful anthology, D.
Gauthier (ed.), Morality and Rational Self-Interest (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
1970). On the more general issue of the nature of practical reasoning,
see J. Raz (ed.), Practical Reasoning (Oxford, 1978).
The quotation from Dennis Levine is from his Inside Out (New York,
1991), p. 391.