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Aldous Huxley

The Human Situation 16: Latent Human Potentialities

Aldous Huxley
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May 12, 20267 December 1959UC Santa Barbara, CA
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The speaker argues that human beings have latent potentialities that can be realized only when basic needs, perception, and awareness are properly developed. He surveys education, therapy, pharmacology, and social conditions as ways to improve human functioning, while emphasizing love, reduced prejudice, and openness to revising orthodox beliefs.

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