Word: judeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate logical dilemma in Skinner's thinking is this: What are the sources of the standards of good and evil in his ideal society? Indeed, who decides even what constitutes pleasure or pain, reward or punishment, when man and his environment can be limitlessly manipulated? Skinner himself believes in Judeo-Christian ethics combined with the scientific tradition. But he fails to answer how it is possible to accept those ethics without also accepting something like the "inner person" with an autonomous conscience...
...Cardinal Villot's lax concern about the population explosion [Feb. 1] is the reflection of the most serious shortcoming of the Judeo-Christian belief, namely that it is legitimate for humans to ruthlessly exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then...
...comes between the two is life. Man, however, has never been able to accept these boundaries, to recognize that all that he is or can be must be confined by these two simple markers. Early man attempted in his religions to stretch the life span beyond physical boundaries; the Judeo-Christian tradition represents the most elaborate and most convincing attempt to defy the natural limits of life. The attempt to extend life has found perhaps its most convincing semi-scientific justification in the work of C.G. Jung, the psychologist who broke with Freud to become a mystic...
...more food. In Strawberry Statement one of the demands is that the university not expand so that the park (playground) will be preserved "for the kids." Just before the bust the students form concentric circles in the gymnasium and sing "Give Peace A Chance." Such extensions of the Judeo-Christian ethic prevent the radicals from offending the market...
...likely to be immature, fearful and dependent, unable to-defer gratification even briefly. Those individuals who proceeded from stem to tip rated high in such personality parameters as frustration-tolerance, self-security and confidence. In the American psychosocial tradition, they showed faith in the future, confidence in the Judeo-Christian ethic, and a conviction that delayed gratification is morally correct." Then there is the matter of eggs: "Several of the students, speaking of their reactions to poached eggs, wondered if they had really been born...