Peace is surely more than the absence ofwar. It is a state of the community and of the world in which healthy human development can take place. Humanistic psychology has something vital tosay about the transformation to peace. However, because both humanistic psychology and peace psychology have weighed in most strongly with their concerns about [...]
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HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY AND PEACE
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THE SEARCH FOR THE PSYCHE
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The purpose of this chapter is to confront an intrinsically difficult and pfte bypassed question: what is the meaning of the psyche? I approach the question with modest ambition. I do not expect togive a full answer; rather I hopeto revive and restore its legitimacy and perhaps move the discussion of it forward a bit. [...]
THE PERSON as MORAL AGENT
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It seems likely that once prehumans became “human,”they began to abserve and form an understanding of tjemselves. Intuitively, we regard this effort at self-oservation and self-understanding as intrisic towhat we mean by being human. Less obviously, the effort to understand ourselves merges into the effort to understand human nature or the mind. Before long, the [...]
