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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... practice in a culture , or every trait in a species , is adaptive , since nonadaptive practices and traits may be carried by adaptive ones , and cultures and species which are poorly adaptive may survive for a long time . New practices ...
... practice in a culture , or every trait in a species , is adaptive , since nonadaptive practices and traits may be carried by adaptive ones , and cultures and species which are poorly adaptive may survive for a long time . New practices ...
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... practice , the character of a terrain to a military strategy - and the practices may be valuable to the culture for quite unrelated reasons . Many cultural practices have , of course , been traced to accidents . Early Rome , situated on ...
... practice , the character of a terrain to a military strategy - and the practices may be valuable to the culture for quite unrelated reasons . Many cultural practices have , of course , been traced to accidents . Early Rome , situated on ...
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... practices . Geographical isolation is suggested when we speak of a " Samoan " culture , and racial characteristics which may interfere with the exchange of practices by a " Polynesian " culture . A dominant controlling agency or system ...
... practices . Geographical isolation is suggested when we speak of a " Samoan " culture , and racial characteristics which may interfere with the exchange of practices by a " Polynesian " culture . A dominant controlling agency or system ...
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