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The \u201cMiddle Way\u201d Ellis argues for so cogently is\nfar from being a simple compromise between existing polarities, but a departure\nat right angles to typical thinking in the modern Western world, which looks to\nme like the path to ancient wisdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perception that objectivity is neither an\nabsolute, nor any the less real for that, is central.  Ellis argues for an approach that is\nincremental and continuously responsive to what is given, rather than abstract\nand absolute. This is the difference, as he notes, between the pragmatic,\nprovisional, nuanced, never fixed position of the right hemisphere in the face\nof the absolutism towards which the left hemisphere always tends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need for certainty must inevitably lead to\nillusion, whether in philosophy or in the business of living, and here too\nEllis makes clear \u2013 as far as I am aware for the first time \u2013 the connections\nbetween the cognitive distortions known to psychology and the fallacies\nidentified in the process of philosophy.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an important, original work,  that should get the widest possible\nhearing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iain McGilchrist is the\nauthor of \u2018The Master and his Emissary\u2019, fellow of All Soul\u2019s College Oxford\nand a former psychiatrist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This foreword was originally written for volume 1 of the series.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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