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SELF-ACTUALIZATION fulfilling one's potential and capabilities, becoming the best version of oneself in terms of talents, abilities, and aspirations, individuals realize their maximum potential in a more practical and worldly sense |
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Chapter 14 Individuality And Type |
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COGNITION relationship between domains: |
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WORLDVIEW |
STEP TO FREEDOM |
COGNITION |
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UNDEVELOPED STATE |
DEVELOPED going beyond ordinary sense-perception and cognition |
cognitive capacity (self-actualization): going beyond ordinary sense-perception and cognition to fulfill one's potential and capabilities |
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14.0 Question Of Free Individuality |
Occultism: essential nature hidden from sense perception and ordinary cognition |
group member: express group characteristics and social position |
free individuality: independent, free individuality |
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14.1 Group Type |
Materialism: stick to what makes the crudest impression on me, the material world. |
ethnic group: traits and behavior conditioned by character of ethnic group |
group type: the type is used to explain the individual |
NOT going beyond ordinary perception and cognition so individual expression not found |
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14.2 Freedom From Type |
Spiritism: inner spiritual activity
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human race: |
individual nature: develops qualities and activities of his own |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition to a developed individual nature according to own inner reasons |
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14.3 Judge Character |
Realism: restrict myself to what I see around me, the external world is something I see and can think about. |
see type: judge according to type, see too much of general characteristics such as male or female traits |
individual character: judge according to character, see individual character, abilities and inclinations |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition to see individual character, abilities and inclinations |
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14.4 Occupational Advancement |
Idealism: idealistic progressive tendency
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suitable occupation: suited only to the occupations that they are now in according to their nature |
occupational choice: decides career to strive for according to individual nature |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition to occupational choice according to individual nature |
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14.5 Academic Study |
Mathematism: calculate a mechanical world
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academic study: laws of his type, characteristics of race, ethnicity, nation and sex are branches of study |
free self-determination: region of freedom in thinking and acting |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition to free self-determination |
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14.6 Free Thinking |
Rationalism: ideas from external things that are real to the senses |
fixed conceptual content: thinking restricted by handed over fixed conceptual content
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free thinking: individual conceptual content |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition to free thinking |
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14.7 Innermost Core |
Psychism: ideas connected to beings
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typical characteristics: not stop short at the level of typical characteristics |
innermost core: find way to the innermost core of his particular being to understand what concrete goals an individual will choose to pursue |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition as each human being is a separate challenge |
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14.8 Views And Actions |
Pneumatism: unity of spirit, feels sympathy for what is active and willing in man |
abstract study: study concerned with abstract thoughts and concepts of type (preparation) |
listening: listen to his way of viewing the world and observe his action |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition by listening and observing the individual (individual spirit) |
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14.9 Emancipate Knowing |
Monadism: build up existence in itself
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mix in preconceptions: refrain from calling up any of our mind's preconceptions if we want to understand him |
emancipate knowing: receive into our mind those concepts by which he defines himself |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition by emancipating method of knowing individual from type |
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14.10 Free Spirit |
Dynamism: forces
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typical being: animal-like life of the species, controlled by decrees of human authorities
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free spirit: a free spirit within a community, gradually emancipates a greater or lesser part of his being |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition by gradually emancipating being |
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14.11 Ethical Conduct |
Phenomenalism: world as it appears
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member of natural and social organism: lives by imitating others, or by obeying their commands |
ethical conduct: part of his conduct that springs from his intuitions |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition with conduct that springs from his intuitions |
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14.12 Moral Contribution |
Sensationalism: allow validity only to sense-impressions |
moral life of humanity: humanities already existing total of moral ideas |
free ethical conduct: living out in practice the ideas that spring from the moral imagination |
going beyond the ordinary perception and cognition by contributing to the moral life of humanity |
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