Bertrand Russell, the English philosopher, mathematician, writer, and
winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, has written the following
about behaviorists and behavior modification:
"The Sentimentalist will say that if you really cared about the
sufferings of others,
you wouldn't be so cold and scientific about them.
The Sentimentalist will claim to have a tenderer heart than yours
and will show it by letting the suffering continue."
If nothing else, he admires the behaviorists.
Michael Sylvester wrote:
>
> I am trying to find a place to insert some of the ideas of Bertrand
> Russell re the History of Psychology.
> He would fit into the British empiricist tradition (as John Locke),
> but I have some doubts as to if he was a determinist as
> would seem appropriate for the Behavioristic and Psychoanalytic
> traditions.
> Please help.
>
> Michael Sylvester,PhD
> Daytona Beach,Florida
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Thom
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