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concerned with the stimuli intentionally arranged by other people. the literature of freedom has identified the other people | concerned with the stimuli intentionally arranged by other people. the literature of freedom has identified the other people | ||
and has proposed way of escaping from them or weakening or destroying thier power. It has been successful in reducing the aversive | and has proposed way of escaping from them or weakening or destroying thier power. It has been successful in reducing the aversive | ||
stimuli used intensional control, but it has made the mistake of defining freedom in terms of states of mind or feelings, and it has | stimuli used in intensional control, but it has made the mistake of defining freedom in terms of states of mind or feelings, and it has | ||
therefore not been able to deal effectively with the techniques of control which do not breed escape or revolt but nevertheless have | therefore not been able to deal effectively with the techniques of control which do not breed escape or revolt but nevertheless have | ||
aversive consequences. It has been forced to brand all control as wrong and to misrepresent many of the advantages to be gained from | aversive consequences. It has been forced to brand all control as wrong and to misrepresent many of the advantages to be gained from | ||
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Except when physically constrained, a person is least free or dignified when under the threat of punishment. We should expect that the literatures of freedom and dignity would oppose punitive techniques, but in fact they have acted to preserve them. A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. ... Under punitive contingencies a person appears to be free to behave well and to deserve credit when does so. Nonpunitive contingencies generate the same behavior, but a person cannot then be said to be free, and the | Except when physically constrained, a person is least free or dignified when under the threat of punishment. We should expect that the literatures of freedom and dignity would oppose punitive techniques, but in fact they have acted to preserve them. A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. ... Under punitive contingencies a person appears to be free to behave well and to deserve credit when he does so. Nonpunitive contingencies generate the same behavior, but a person cannot then be said to be free, and the contingencies deserve the credit when he behaves well. Little or nothing remains for the autonomous man to do and receive credit for doing. ... But our task is not to encourage moral struggle or to build or demonstrate inner virtues. It is to make life less punishing and in doing so to release for more reinforcing activities the time and energy consumed in the avoidance of punishments. [The literatures of freedom and dignity] cannot now accept the fact that all control is exerted by the environment and proceed to the design of better environments rather than of better men. | ||
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A scientific concept of the subject requires a rethinking of role of man in the Environment. Refers to "[[Environmentalism]]" at a time when that term was new, but what is meant is a focus the environment rather than the subject of behavior, i.e. crude behaviourism. | A scientific concept of the subject requires a rethinking of role of man in the Environment. Refers to "[[Environmentalism]]" at a time when that term was new, but what is meant is a focus the environment rather than the subject of behavior, i.e. crude behaviourism. | ||
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Precis and Prospectus | |||
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TBS. | |||
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== See Also == | |||
[[:en:Metasystem transition]] | |||
