Book: "Of Human Potential"

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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"1. The picture we have painted of human nature is centered on the notion of action as purposive, symbolic, and social - actions both reflective of prior norms and creative of new ones through the instrumentality of choice. ... 3. Their courses are modified by belief and interpretation, fear and hope, recollection and anticipation, symbolism and value.	2. Human lives thus do not ride on fixed rails; they do not follow trajectories already laid down by physics supplemented by biology. ... 4. The newborn child, considered simply as a biological unit, is indeterminate as a human being -
- the texture of its life is still to be filled out largely by human effort, that is to say, by culture, history, education and decision." p.41.	It is politicians' and policy makers' role to help realise human potential and societal progress: human AND now biospheric flourishing. THINK about how YOU vote!*

Of Human Potential
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*Political freedom permitting.

Scheffler, I. (1985) Of Human Potential. Chapter II POTENTIAL: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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