Ponerology

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Ponerology is the name given by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Lobaczewski to an interdisciplinary study of the causes of periods of social injustice.[1] This discipline makes use of data from psychology, psychopathology, sociology, philosophy, and history to account for such phenomena as aggressive war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and police states. The original theory and research was conducted by psychologists and psychiatrists working in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary in the years before the institution of Communism such as Kazimierz Dąbrowski and Stefan Blachowski.[2]

Lobaczewski adopted the term from the branch of theology dealing with the study of evil, derived from the Greek word poneros.

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ Lobaczewski, A. Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes, (Grande Prairie: Red Pill Press, 2006), pg. 22.
  2. ^ Dąbrowski, Kazimierz. The Dynamics of Concepts (London: Gryf Publications, 1973)), pp. 37-40.

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