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- Author: Rollo May
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 288
- ISBN: 9780393249637
- ISBN-10: 0393249638
- ISBN-13: 9780393249637
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power & innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society. May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that he sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness & evil. Dr May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; &, finally, violence, when reason & persuasion are ineffective.
- Author: Rollo May
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 288
- ISBN: 9780393249637
- ISBN-10: 0393249638
- ISBN-13: 9780393249637
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power & innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society. May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that he sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness & evil. Dr May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; &, finally, violence, when reason & persuasion are ineffective.
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