The article puts forth a thesis that usurping the right to create objectively existing
symbolic order relies on brining the past and the future into a closed social system
with an imperatively imposed effectively measurable set of empirical attributes
occurring in the experiment, corresponds to the tendency of not caring about
human experiences and limitations imposed by the conscience and, conversely,
taking into account only the capacity for behaviors caused by natural intellectual
abilities of man. Formally speaking S. Milgram’s experiments into blind obedience
to authority, P. Zimbardo‘s Stanford Prison Experiment as well as R. Jones’
experiment into the simulated Nazi experience have shown the destructive
results of being subjected to an arbitrary system of commands in which neither
the expression of an experience nor the principal duty driven by the good of
others have any meaning. Within an authoritarian system subjugation of people
is foremost regardless of who they are; in a totalitarian system submission to
authority is complete, the symbolic man becomes unnecessary, the experience
occurring within social history is negated and, in consequence, it ceases to be
the basis of material ethics. The usurpation of the right to objectivity outside of
the symbolic tradition occurs in antisocial personality. The egotistical style of
behavior in sociopathy consists of the selfish adaptation to the environment to take
advantage of others – to laze, parasitize and waste. The spreading of the separatist
tendency in development and upbringing influences the adaptation of traits of
egotism and selfishness by people who have different personality structures.
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