ABSTRACT
The implication of philosophical anthropology is that people should always try, in discussing human problems, to keep man in his totality, as a 'being-in-the-world', in view. In the light of such a philosophical approach as that of Merleau-Ponty, then, what seems to the mind trained by natural sciences as a bright 'liberation' can be seen from another point of view as a loss of freedom and values. Behaviourism tries to make psychology into an exact science. It professes to observe the pieces of mental behaviour and to relate these pieces explicitly. Many of our attitudes to sex and current modes of sexual behaviour and symbolism seem to belong to this 'living nihilism'. Science itself has been the most effective kind of knowledge in the history of mankind, and from this fact has grown an increasing divinization of the power of science. The worst manifestations are thus manifestations of the lack of a sense of meaning.
