Human Potentialities: The Challenge and the PromiseHerbert Arthur Otto The first six papers in this collection were originally presented at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in 1966 in New York City, as a part of a symposium of the same name (Human Potentialities: The Challenge and the Promise). The six symposium members made some changes and additions in their presentations. The additional papers are also original contributions by scientists and pioneers in the forefront of that growing edge, called the human potentialities movement. |
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... century . What is new is that with our advanced knowledge and technology both the scientific community and the public appear ready to accept the fact , with all its implications , that man func- tions at a small fraction of his ...
... century . What is new is that with our advanced knowledge and technology both the scientific community and the public appear ready to accept the fact , with all its implications , that man func- tions at a small fraction of his ...
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... Century in the Galileo - Descartes - Newton age of scientific innovation , moved forward into the minute specification of physical and chemical realities during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Cen- turies ; think of La Mettrie : Man or ...
... Century in the Galileo - Descartes - Newton age of scientific innovation , moved forward into the minute specification of physical and chemical realities during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Cen- turies ; think of La Mettrie : Man or ...
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... century back and come to the curious ineffectual truce , the great scientific impasse , that marks the culture of our century ? It was a natural human error - an understandable one . In the advance along the main highway of discovery ...
... century back and come to the curious ineffectual truce , the great scientific impasse , that marks the culture of our century ? It was a natural human error - an understandable one . In the advance along the main highway of discovery ...
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TWO THE UNFOLDING IMAGES OF | 12 |
Three CULTURE AND THE HUMAN POTENTIAL | 21 |
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