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Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Hackett Classics)

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Behavioral Science

What this book knows

Human behavior is shaped entirely by environmental contingencies; autonomous man is a fiction that blocks effective, humane design of culture.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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mind-and-cognition

Autonomous man serves to explain only the things we are not yet able to explain; his existence depends upon our ignorance.
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A person does not act upon the world, the world acts upon him — a change difficult to accept on intellectual grounds.
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Why should people in the last third of the twentieth century care what the last third of the twenty-first century will look like?
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A science clarifying deferred consequences is in the best possible position to specify a better world in an ethical sense.
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self-and-identity

As behavioral analysis adds further evidence, the achievements for which a person himself is given credit seem to approach zero.
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A scientific analysis shifts both responsibility and achievement to the environment, raising urgent questions about values and ends.
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