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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... given ways or by claiming to have acted for less powerful reasons . We avoid infringing on the credit due to others by controlling them inconspicuously . We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do , and the word ...
... given ways or by claiming to have acted for less powerful reasons . We avoid infringing on the credit due to others by controlling them inconspicuously . We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do , and the word ...
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... given birth grows , and it may be guided or trained , as a growing plant is trained . Behavior may be " cultivated . ” The metaphor is particularly at home in education . A school for small children is a child - garden , or kinder ...
... given birth grows , and it may be guided or trained , as a growing plant is trained . Behavior may be " cultivated . ” The metaphor is particularly at home in education . A school for small children is a child - garden , or kinder ...
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... given group of people calls good is a fact : it is what members of the group find reinforcing as the result of their genetic endowment and the natural and social contingencies to which they have been ex- posed . Each culture has its own ...
... given group of people calls good is a fact : it is what members of the group find reinforcing as the result of their genetic endowment and the natural and social contingencies to which they have been ex- posed . Each culture has its own ...
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