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Is Man the Measure? An Evaluation of Contemporary Humanism is unavailable, but you can change that!

An academically respectable description and evaluation of secular humanism is available at last. The diversity within humanism receives full recognition in this book, as does the fact that “not everything about humanism is bad from a Christian point of view.” Indeed, the author continues, “there are many emphases within humanism that are compatible with Christian beliefs,” a thesis to which he...

If man is essentially nonmoral, what then is the “good”? In Skinner’s view the good, or rather those things we call good, are positive reinforcers, and those things we call bad or evil are negative reinforcers. Putting it plainly, he says, “Epicurus was not quite right: pleasure is not the ultimate good, pain the ultimate evil; the only good things are positive reinforcers, and the only bad things are negative reinforcers.”35 Skinner describes what he means by “reinforcing”: When a bit of behavior
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