Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 1: A Technology of Behavior. Quote 13

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Almost everyone who is concerned with human affairs—as political scientist, philosopher, man of letters, economist, psychologist, linguist, sociologist, theologian, anthropologist, educator, or psychotherapist—continues to talk about human behavior in this prescientific way. (p. 9)

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