By attending only to external, observable behavior, the radical behaviorists make therapeutic change measurable, but they achieve this by ignoring all the
rich, inner choiceful
dimensions, all the complexity and mystery of
human beings.
But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with
richer and filler
human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic
dimensions of the
human selfhood and social existence.