Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added that, "the Hebrew-Christian ethic, as it applies to the administrator, gives a high value to the individual." He concluded that out ethics have done very little to develop attitudes and behavior patterns to cope with our complex society...
Lindey asked; "Did it lower your standards of right or wrong with respect to sexual behavior...
Testifying at the Lilienthal hearings a fortnight ago, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the thoroughly accurate judgment that "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." His frankness cocked a few U.S. ears; it set the Kremlin a-growl. Barked Comrade Molotov: "Inadmissible behavior. . . gross slander and hostile to the Soviet Union...
Vanity of Vanities. "Instinct" is the heart of Author Wylie's philosophy, and he defines it as famed Psychiatrist Carl Jung did, as the "collective unconscious," i.e., the idea that hidden in all men is a "common instinct" or basic "energy," which "governs living behavior in individuals, species, and in evolution." Individuals and nations that thwart this timeless instinct - either through unnatural laws and institutions or by catering to the day-to-day vanities of the ego -call down upon their heads neuroses, national-madness, and even extinction of their species...
...Liberalism is dying, allegedly because such Liberalism requires a moral basis which it is unable to create or maintain. This is absolutely false. The ideas of goodness in the broader sense are not the exclusive property of, or even result of, religion. The basic ideas of decent and cooperative behavior are but the inevitable product of intelligent people who wish to live together in harmony...