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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... social environment as simply as we deal with the nonsocial . Although technology has freed men from certain aver- sive features of the environment , it has not freed them from the environment . We accept the fact that we de- pend upon ...
... social environment as simply as we deal with the nonsocial . Although technology has freed men from certain aver- sive features of the environment , it has not freed them from the environment . We accept the fact that we de- pend upon ...
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... social environment . The harvest has at best the effect of maintaining a series of conditioned reinforcers . An important repertoire , necessarily acquired from others , is verbal . Verbal behavior presumably arose under contingencies ...
... social environment . The harvest has at best the effect of maintaining a series of conditioned reinforcers . An important repertoire , necessarily acquired from others , is verbal . Verbal behavior presumably arose under contingencies ...
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... Social contin- gencies are much more likely to raise moral and ethical ... environment called a culture , and the main effect , as we have seen , is to ... environment and more skillful in dealing with it . Cultural evolution was made pos ...
... Social contin- gencies are much more likely to raise moral and ethical ... environment called a culture , and the main effect , as we have seen , is to ... environment and more skillful in dealing with it . Cultural evolution was made pos ...
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