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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...

Man’s Will From all that has been said it should be clear that Skinnerian man is not free. Instead he is absolutely determined by physical causes to be what he is. Skinner is adamant on this point: “A scientific analysis of behavior must, I believe, assume that a person’s behavior is controlled by his genetic and environmental histories rather than by the person himself as an initiating, creative agent.”40 He reiterates, “A person is not an originating agent”—that is, his behavior is not uncaused
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