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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... evolution of a culture raises certain questions about so - called " values " which have not been fully answered . Is the evolution of a culture " progress ” ? What is its goal ? Is the goal a kind of consequence quite different from the ...
... evolution of a culture raises certain questions about so - called " values " which have not been fully answered . Is the evolution of a culture " progress ” ? What is its goal ? Is the goal a kind of consequence quite different from the ...
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner. world may be the end of evolution , but these terminal conditions have no bearing on the processes through which they are reached . We do not live in order to die , and evolution does not proceed in order to ...
Burrhus Frederic Skinner. world may be the end of evolution , but these terminal conditions have no bearing on the processes through which they are reached . We do not live in order to die , and evolution does not proceed in order to ...
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... evolution , since practices evolve because those who practice them are as a result better off . There is a kind of natural morality in both biological and cultural evolution . Biological evolution has made the human species more ...
... evolution , since practices evolve because those who practice them are as a result better off . There is a kind of natural morality in both biological and cultural evolution . Biological evolution has made the human species more ...
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