Essay Archive - B.F Skinner's Waldo Two: Positive Change In World Through Manipulation of Behavior
B.F Skinner's Waldo Two: Positive Change In World Through Manipulation of
Behavior
B.F. Skinner, in his novel Walden Two, presents many arguments about how
he foresees a positive change in the world through manipulation of behavior on
the personal level. Sigmund Freud, in his works, specifically Civilization and
Its Discontents, presents his view of human nature and what is innately
problematic about it. Both Freud and Skinner agree that human behavior is the
result of outside factors that severely hinder the concept of free will.
Skinner believes that humans, in the correct envir....
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