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Tiffani Boswell
03-01-2002, 09:46 AM
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><font face="arial">i am just finishing up an assignment in a psych. class and was reading over these principles from abraham maslow of a "self-actualizing" person...i remember when i was in college that i was taught (went to a private university) that humanism was wrong...( i don't remember why ...and after reading these and the whole chapter on it i realize i must have been a humanist all the time...) anyone remember why people think humanistic people are wrong???or maybe i am mixing up to terms....</font>
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><font face="arial">well just posting these for us to think about....</font>

the self-actualizing person has reached a high level of moral development and is more concerned about the welfare of friends, loved ones, and humanity than self.
the self-actualizing person is usually committed to some cause or task, rather then working for fame or money.
life is experienced in intense, vivid, absorbing ways, often with a sense of unity with nature.
self-actualizing people are open and honest and have the courage to act on their convictions even if it means being unpopular.
self-actualizing individuals are not particularly interested in fads, fashion, and social customers, and often appear unorthodox.
self-actualizing individuals enjoy friends but are not dependent on their company or approval; they enjoy privacy and independence. on the other hand, their feelings for their close friends are intensely positive and caring.
life is always challenging and fresh to the self-actualizing person.
they have an accurate, rather than a romanticized, view of people and life, yet they are positive about life
self-actualizing individuals are spontaneous and natural in their actions and feelings.</font>
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Jeremy Weiland
03-01-2002, 12:42 PM
> i
> remember when i was in college that i was taught
> (went to a private university) that humanism was
> wrong...( i don't remember why ...and after reading
> these and the whole chapter on it i realize i must
> have been a humanist all the time...) anyone
> remember why people think humanistic people are
> wrong???

you probably went to a pretty conservative christian
school. humanism to them is wrong because it puts man
in the center of the world in relation to its studies.
a more conservative instution would argue that god
should be the at the center. humanism is sort of
academia by and for humans rather than simply as
subjects of god.

please correct me if i'm wrong.

jeremy

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