beyond freedom and dignity (hackett classics)

self-and-identity

• the autonomous agent to which behavior has traditionally been attributed is replaced by the environment in which the species evolved and in which behavior is shaped and maintained

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• The difference is not in the stuff of which the private world is composed, but in its accessibility. There is an exclusive intimacy about a headache, or heartache, or a silent soliloquy.

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mind-and-cognition

• Perhaps the last stronghold of autonomous man is that complex 'cognitive' activity called thinking. Because it is complex, it has yielded only slowly to explanation in terms of contingencies of reinforcement.

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• It is always the environment which builds the behavior with which problems are solved, even when the problems are to be found in the private world inside the skin.

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obedience-and-authority

• the slave controls the slave driver, the child the parent, the patient the therapist, the citizen the government—control is always reciprocal, never unilateral

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• We do not condone changing minds surreptitiously. If a person cannot see what the would-be changer is doing, he cannot escape or counterattack; he is being exposed to propaganda.

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