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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Page 147
... utopian design , however , is that the survival of a community can be made important to its members . The small size , the isolation , the internal coherence - all these give a community an identity which makes its success or failure ...
... utopian design , however , is that the survival of a community can be made important to its members . The small size , the isolation , the internal coherence - all these give a community an identity which makes its success or failure ...
Page 148
... utopian means unworkable . His- tory seems to offer support ; various utopian designs have been proposed for nearly twenty - five hundred years , and most attempts to set them up have been ignominious failures . But historical evidence ...
... utopian means unworkable . His- tory seems to offer support ; various utopian designs have been proposed for nearly twenty - five hundred years , and most attempts to set them up have been ignominious failures . But historical evidence ...
Page 211
... utopias as experimental cultures See COR , chap . 2 . 146/17 behavioral utopias Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 Beyond Freedom and Dignity 211.
... utopias as experimental cultures See COR , chap . 2 . 146/17 behavioral utopias Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 Beyond Freedom and Dignity 211.
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