Beyond Freedom And Dignity
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Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002-03-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1603840818 |
In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior, Skinner argues that our traditional concepts of freedom and dignity must be sharply revised. They have played an important historical role in our struggle against many kinds of tyranny, he acknowledges, but they are now responsible for the futile defense of a presumed free and autonomous individual; they are perpetuating our use of punishment and blocking the development of more effective cultural practices. Basing his arguments on the massive results of the experimental analysis of behavior he pioneered, Skinner rejects traditional explanations of behavior in terms of states of mind, feelings, and other mental attributes in favor of explanations to be sought in the interaction between genetic endowment and personal history. He argues that instead of promoting freedom and dignity as personal attributes, we should direct our attention to the physical and social environments in which people live. It is the environment rather than humankind itself that must be changed if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom and dignity are to be reached. Beyond Freedom and Dignity urges us to reexamine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically behaviorist approach to human problems--one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals, but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements.
Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2005-07-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1603840362 |
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
Author | : B.F. Skinner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2011-08-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0307797848 |
The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.
Author | : Ron Highfield |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830864504 |
Ron Highfield traces the genealogy of the modern self from Plato, Descartes and Locke to Charles Taylor's landmark Sources of the Self. What emerges is a stark portrait of the modern ideal of self-governance and the crisis it provokes for a Christian view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in God.
Author | : Burrhus Frederic Skinner |
Publisher | : New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ernest Robert Sandeen |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fundamentalism |
ISBN | : 9780226734675 |
Author | : Finley Carperter |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780029059005 |
Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780872207783 |
This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. It is now widely recognized that great changes must be made in the American way of life. Not only can we not face the rest of the world while consuming and polluting as we do, we cannot for long face ourselves while acknowledging the violence and chaos in which we live.The choice is clear: either we do nothing and allow a miserable and probably catastrophic future to overtake us, or we use our knowledge about human behavior to create a social environment in which we shall live productive and creative lives and do so without jeopardizing the chances that those who follow us will be able to do the same. -Back cover.
Author | : Sam Harris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1451683405 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
Author | : Burrhus Frederic Skinner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Conditioned response |
ISBN | : |
Argues 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.