Selfhood and civilization : a study of the self-other process / William Heard Kilpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilpatrick, William Heard, 1871-1965., author.

Series:

Columbia University, Teachers College, The V, Everit Macy Lectures on education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages).

Other Title:

Selfhood and civilization

Place of Publication:

New York : MacMillan Co, [1941]

Summary:

"This book has two main aims. The first is to show how man in the human sense is a self-other compound such that within the resulting self there is a sense of others so inherently embedded that the person can act as others will see and judge him. This means that selfhood is essentially both self-conscious and other-conscious and therein can make use critically of experience after it has passed, both one's own and that of others. Out of this self-other origin of the human aspect of man comes the second aim of the book: to show how this self-other process thus basic to the creation of language and other cultural forms requires a favorable environment in order to realize its potentialities"-- Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The self-other process : how self and other emerge simultaneously to consciousness

The self-other process : agency and accountability as further developments of the self

The self-other process : development of language, communication, meanings

The self-other process : moral conflict, personal responsibility, conscience

The self-other process and the culture

Objectivity, standards, authority

The self-other principle and the science of psychology

Philosophic applications of the self-other principle

Educational applications of the self-other principle

Freedom

Individuality

Security

Concluding summary.

Notes:

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