Tuesday, December 16, 2008

 

Quote of the Day: The job ahead

... [O]ur task is not to encourage moral struggle or to build or demonstrate inner virtue. It is to make life less punishing.... —B.F. Skinner in Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), p. 81

There is a lot that could be said about this. But since this is my day off from encouraging moral struggle or demonstrating inner virtue, I won't.

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