Beyond Freedom and DignityArgues that concepts of freedom and dignity are destructive of values they claim to foster; that a technology of behavior would be more prductive of the good society. |
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... physical world , but it was still not much . Moreover , their way of thinking about human behavior must have had some fatal flaw . Whereas Greek physics and biology , no matter how crude , led eventually to modern science , Greek ...
... physical world , but it was still not much . Moreover , their way of thinking about human behavior must have had some fatal flaw . Whereas Greek physics and biology , no matter how crude , led eventually to modern science , Greek ...
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... physical changes in the physical world . ” And , of course , we also want to know where these nonphysical things come from . To that question the Greeks had a simple answer : from the gods . As Dodds has pointed out , the Greeks ...
... physical changes in the physical world . ” And , of course , we also want to know where these nonphysical things come from . To that question the Greeks had a simple answer : from the gods . As Dodds has pointed out , the Greeks ...
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... ( physical ) competition during the course of evolution people now have ( nonphysical ) feelings of aggression which lead to ( physical ) acts of hostility . Or , the ( physical ) punishment a small child receives when he engages in sex ...
... ( physical ) competition during the course of evolution people now have ( nonphysical ) feelings of aggression which lead to ( physical ) acts of hostility . Or , the ( physical ) punishment a small child receives when he engages in sex ...
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