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Maslow Abraham Harold.
The far reaches of the human psyche
/ Transl. from English A. M. Tatly-
Abraham Harold Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow
HUMAN
Saint Petersburg
For assistance in the publication of this book
publishing house<Евразия>thanks
Kiprushkina
Vadim Albertovich
Maslow Abraham Harold.
Far limits of the human psyche / Transl. from English A. M. Tatly-
battle Teach, ed., entry. article and comment. N. N. Akulina. -SPb.: Eurasia,
ISBN 5-8071-0018-2
This book is the second, revised edition of the final
th labor A.G. Maslow, dedicated to his theory of self-actualization. IN
The basis of this theory is the difference between lower (imperfect) and
higher (growing) needs.
The book is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in history
and the theory of psychology, human sciences.
ISBN 5-8071-0018-2
c Tatlybaeva A. M., translation from English, 1997
c Losev P. P., design, 1999
c Publisher<Евразия>, 1999
On the path to humanization of man
Part I. HEALTH AND PATHOLOGY
1.0 humanistic biology
2. Neuroses as a mistake in personal development
3. About self-actualization and what comes out
beyond its borders
Part P. CREATIVITY
4. Creativity and readiness for it
5. A Holistic Approach to Creativity
6. Emotional barriers to creativity
7. Need for creative people
Part III. VALUES
8. Merger of reality and value
9. Notes on the psychology of Being
10. Symposium documents on the problem
human values
Part IV. EDUCATION
11. Knower and knowable
12. Learning and Higher Experiences
13. The purpose and significance of humanistic education
Part V. SOCIETY
14. Synergism in society and in humans 211
15. Questions for a normative social psychologist 224
16. Synanon and Eupsyche 238
17. About eupsychic control 249
18.0 lower complaints, higher complaints and meta-complaints 251
Part VI. HIGHEST REALIZATION
19. Notes on naive cognition 263
20. Further notes on cognition 271
Part VII. TRANSCENDENCE AND
PSYCHOLOGY OF EXISTENCE
21. Different meanings of transcendence 281
22. Theory Zet 292
Part VIII. METAMOTIVATION
23. Metamotivation theory: biological roots
highest values 313
APPLICATIONS
Appendix A: Comments on the work Values, and Peak-Experiences> 357 Appendix B: Some analogies between sexually dominant behavior of inferiors primates and patients' fantasies in psychotherapy (A. G. Maslow, X. Rand, S. Newman) 365 Appendix C: Adolescence and Youth delinquency in two different cultures (A. G. Maslow, R. Diaz-Guero) 383 Appendix D: Criteria for Attribution of Needs into the category of instinct-like 393 Appendix E: Abraham G. Maslow: Bibliography 405 Notes 416 Bibliography 424 humanization person Abraham Harold Maslow was born in 1908 in New York, USA. Annual graduate course at the City College of New York and Cornell University stimulated Maslow's interest in psychology. In 1928 he transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where he specialized in psychology. The teachers who most influenced Maslow were Behaviorists: Clark Hull, Norman Cameron, William Sheldon and Harry Harlow. His dissertation research on dominantT and sexuality in primates was done under the direction of Harlow. After working for two years as an assistant to Thorndike at Columbia Maslow took a teaching position at Brooklyn College and left him only in 1951. During his years at Columbia and Brooklyn Colleges, Maslow communicated with a large number of scientists, mainly associated with Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. He met Fromm, Koffka, Wertheimer, Horney, Sullivan, Benedict, Horkheimer, Kardiner, Adler, Goldstein, Ansh- bacher and came under the influence of their ideas. At the end of the 30s. Maslow conducted anthropological research in Indian reservation and wrote a section on cross-cultural psychology in the book Ross Stagner<Психология личности>. In the mid-40s. Maslow contacted Alfred Kinsey, a famous sexologist who conducted medical research in Wisconsin and planned to study Women's sexual behavior at Brooklyn College. But potential the collaboration between the two scientists was frustrated. However, Maslow's open the research method was used by Kinsey later. Maslow's most important contributions to psychological thought were made by his two On the paths of humanizing a person tions> and<Теория человеческой мотивации>. This topic was discussed in detail developed in the book<Мотивация и личность> (1954). “And a hunter was walking past the house and heard terrible, terrible sounds... Antonina's eyes sparkled from under the blanket. - And he looked into the house and saw a wolf. - Scared? - He was a brave hunter. He shot the wolf and ripped open its stomach, and Little Red Riding Hood jumped out of the stomach, safe and sound... - Irochka closed the book. - And they began to live and live with the hunter and make good money. Go to sleep. - Do you have a red hat? – Antonina put her thumb in her mouth. - Uncle Nikita is a hunter? - Another one. -Where is the wolf? - There is no wolf. Not anymore. The portraits will have to be removed, and this stupid rope will finally have to be thrown out. Enough of the fairy tales, it's time to live. An abridged version of the report of the French notary Roche-Etienne Marin on the autopsy of the Beast of Gevaudan. In particular, in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. White Camisards are young Catholic nobles. The Black Camisards are Huguenots. Flagellation is an educational measure used as a method of mortification, widespread among some orders. Scandinavian legend about the wolf Fenrir. The count's connections are evidenced by the following fact: on February 11, 1773, he was imprisoned in the Conciergerie prison for debt. Litigation in Parliament followed, which resulted in a significant reduction in the amount of debt (to 25,000 pounds instead of the million claimed by creditors). The count was acquitted and released, and the unjust creditors went to jail. In 1774, de Morangia left France, settling in Metz, where he married a woman who was already married. He returns to Paris with his illegitimate wife, is imprisoned again and released again, eventually settling in the Chateau Saint-Alban, the only thing left of the huge estate. The de Moranges family ended in 1888 with the death of the last representative of the family, Christophe-Theodore. However, St. Alban Castle was sold back in 1821. On August 16, 1773, Pope Clement XIV signed the bull "Dominus ac Redemptor noster", which became a death sentence not only for the order, but also for the pope himself - on September 22, 1774, after a long agony, he dies, presumably having been poisoned by "aqueta". The body decomposed so quickly that, against all customs, it was buried without embalming and bypassing many rituals. On August 7, 1814, Pope Pius VII issues the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum, restoring the Society of Jesus with all its former rights. Current page: 1 (book has 29 pages in total) Maslow Abraham Harold. The far reaches of the human psyche / Transl. from English A. M. Tatly- Abraham Harold Maslow Abraham Harold Maslow HUMAN Saint Petersburg For assistance in the publication of this book the publishing house thanks Kiprushkina Vadim Albertovich Maslow Abraham Harold. Far limits of the human psyche / Transl. from English A. M. Tatly- battle Teach, ed., entry. article and comment. N. N. Akulina. -SPb.: Eurasia, ISBN 5-8071-0018-2 This book is the second, revised edition of the final th labor A.G. Maslow, dedicated to his theory of self-actualization. IN The basis of this theory is the difference between lower (imperfect) and higher (growing) needs. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in history and the theory of psychology, human sciences. ISBN 5-8071-0018-2 c Tatlybaeva A. M., translation from English, 1997 c Losev P. P., design, 1999 c Publishing house, 1999 Part I. HEALTH AND PATHOLOGY 1.0 humanistic biology 2. Neuroses as a mistake in personal development 3. About self-actualization and what comes out beyond its borders Part P. CREATIVITY 4. Creativity and readiness for it 5. A Holistic Approach to Creativity 6. Emotional barriers to creativity 7. Need for creative people Part III. VALUES 8. Merger of reality and value 9. Notes on the psychology of Being 10. Symposium documents on the problem human values Part IV. EDUCATION 11. Knower and knowable 12. Learning and Higher Experiences 13. The purpose and significance of humanistic education Part V. SOCIETY 14. Synergism in society and in humans 211 15. Questions for a normative social psychologist 224 16. Synanon and Eupsyche 238 17. About eupsychic control 249 18.0 lower complaints, higher complaints and meta-complaints 251 Part VI. HIGHEST REALIZATION 19. Notes on naive cognition 263 20. Further notes on cognition 271 Part VII. TRANSCENDENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY OF EXISTENCE 21. Different meanings of transcendence 281 22. Theory Zet 292 Part VIII. METAMOTIVATION 23. Metamotivation theory: biological roots highest values 313 APPLICATIONS Appendix A: Comments on the work Values, and Peak-Experiences> 357 Appendix B: Some analogies between sexually dominant behavior of inferiors primates and patients' fantasies in psychotherapy (A. G. Maslow, X. Rand, S. Newman) 365 Appendix C: Adolescence and Youth delinquency in two different cultures (A. G. Maslow, R. Diaz-Guero) 383 Appendix D: Criteria for Attribution of Needs into the category of instinct-like 393 Appendix E: Abraham G. Maslow: Bibliography 405 Notes 416 Bibliography 424 humanization person Abraham Harold Maslow was born in 1908 in New York, USA. Annual graduate course at the City College of New York and Cornell University stimulated Maslow's interest in psychology. In 1928 he transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where he specialized in psychology. The teachers who most influenced Maslow were Behaviorists: Clark Hull, Norman Cameron, William Sheldon and Harry Harlow. His dissertation research on dominantT and sexuality in primates was done under the direction of Harlow. After working for two years as an assistant to Thorndike at Columbia Maslow took a teaching position at Brooklyn College and left him only in 1951. During his years at Columbia and Brooklyn Colleges, Maslow communicated with a large number of scientists, mainly associated with Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. He met Fromm, Koffka, Wertheimer, Horney, Sullivan, Benedict, Horkheimer, Kardiner, Adler, Goldstein, Ansh- bacher and came under the influence of their ideas. At the end of the 30s. Maslow conducted anthropological research in Indian reservation and wrote a section on cross-cultural psychology in the book Ross Stagner. In the mid-40s. Maslow contacted Alfred Kinsey, a famous sexologist who conducted medical research in Wisconsin and planned to study Women's sexual behavior at Brooklyn College. But potential the collaboration between the two scientists was frustrated. However, Maslow's open the research method was used by Kinsey later. Maslow's most important contributions to psychological thought were made by his two On the paths of humanizing a person tions> and. This topic was discussed in detail developed in book (1954). Abraham Harold Maslow is a brilliant thinker who deals with questions abnormal psychology, human motivation and personality, famous as the founder of humanistic psychology, as the creator of the theory self-actualization. His theory, focused on the difference between inferior (imperfect) and higher (growing) needs is not accidental. At that time in the world psychology was dominated by two major movements: behaviorism, which was criticized for the mechanistic approach to human psychology by analogies with animal psychology, for considering the human behavior as completely dependent on external stimuli, and psychoanalysis, which was considered the best system of analysis for psychopathology and possible psychotherapy, but not sufficient to explain human thinking and behavior in general, since, according to Maslow, No less significant influence on Maslow's thinking was exerted by the works Gestalt psychologists Max Wertheimer and Kurt Goldstein, to whom he dedicated his book. In the preface, Maslow wrote: psychology, then I would say that this is an integration of Goldstein (and Gestalt psychology) with Freud (and various psychodynamic psychology), under the auspices of the scientific spirit of my teachers at the University of Wisconsin university>. Maslow owes his theory to Kurt Goldstein, and he borrowed the term itself. Kurt Goldstein first introduced the concept into science self-actualization, but, being a neurophysiologist, he understood by this a certain voltage, orderly activity of the organism. Goldstein claims that a normal body can temporarily postpone eating, sleeping, sex, etc. Maslow, self-actualization does not mean the end of problems, on the contrary, growth can often bring a certain amount of suffering. Goldstein wrote, that the abilities of an organism determine its needs, e.g. the presence of muscles requires movement, etc. Self-actualization is loosely defined by Maslow as talents, abilities, opportunities and the like>, as a process self-realization of human potential. self-actualized person not like an ordinary person who something is added, but as an ordinary person from whom nothing has been taken away. The average person is a kind of human being, with muffled and suppressed abilities and talents>. Maslow's research on self-actualization was initially driven by his desire to more fully understand two of his most inspiring t/a ways of humanizing a person teachers - Ruth Benedict, who originally used the term to indicate the degree of interpersonal cooperation and harmony in society, and Max Wertheimer, whose work is about productive thinking was close to Maslow's own research on knowledge and creativity. Although they were very different from each other people, and they were engaged in research in different areas, Maslow felt that they had some level of personal accomplishment both in professional and personal life, which he rarely observed in others. Maslow saw in them not only brilliant scientists, but also deeply perfect, creative people. He began to record the results of his observations in a notebook to understand what makes them so special. This was his first step in researching the problem of self-actualization, which subsequently lasted for the rest of his life. - one of the best works Abraham Maslow, his final work, a book on mental health, creativity, values, education, society, transcendence and metamotivation. To explore the limits of human capabilities, it is necessary to study the best of individuals; According to Maslow, so best athletes and runners, and it would be pointless to make an "average sample" from population of the city>. Abraham Harold Maslow was a theoretical psychologist. He didn't spend large and thorough experimental studies, he said, he simply did not have enough time for this. He spent more research>, but not for publications, but to confirm one’s own hypotheses. For his first study, Maslow chose people who did not have significant personal problems that are not susceptible to neurosis and, most importantly, who make the best use of their talents and abilities. His the sample consisted of eighteen people, nine of whom were contemporaries of Abraham Maslow, and nine historical figures: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Adams, Aldous Huxley, Baruch Spinoza and others. According to Maslow, the self-actualized people he studied did not were perfect and were not deprived of the opportunity to make major mistakes. In addition, they had many of the problems of ordinary average people: anxiety, guilt, internal conflicts, etc. Self-actualization, according to Maslow, is not the absence of problems, but temporary and unreal problems to real problems>. Maslow's book is his culmination thinking about self-actualization. In it, Maslow describes the ways in which an individual can self-actualize: On the path of human incarnation – self-actualization is full concentration and complete absorption>; – accepting responsibility for one’s actions; To actualize means to exist really, physically, and not just potentially; – actualize – develop abilities, choices in food, music, profession, marriage; – self-actualization is not, it is a long process, like the Buddhist path of enlightenment; Self-actualization-test. - This transitional moments of self-actualization, the peak of our experiences, which arise with a strong feeling of love, exceptional beauty, works of art... moments of human life>. As a result of studying self-actualization, Maslow discovered that some of the self-actualizing individuals sought to experience a lot While others experienced them extremely rarely or not experienced at all. He divided self-actualizing people on mentally healthy, productive people with little experience and generally without it, and for people for whom experience was important and central. In the chapter Maslow describes from above twenty ways to experience transcendence. This is the Transcendence of Time, culture, past, inner Ego, basic needs, love, someone else's opinion, one's own weakness, one's own will, dichotomy, mystical experience, Transcendence of vice, etc. Maslow claims that transcendental personalities tend to identify themselves with their abilities, profession. For example, . Many people who have mystical experiences are not mentally healthy and not productive, which Maslow considered the essential properties of self-actualization, further noting that he met as many transcendental people among businessmen, teachers, politicians, as well as among those who are considered closer to this - musicians, poets, priests, etc. Before Maslow, there were many theories of very different nature. motivation. However, they were not distinguished by the necessary completeness. Maslow brought some clarity to this problem. He made an attempt hierarchization of motives. According to its hierarchy, the basis is physiological needs (food, sleep, etc.). Next are the levels higher needs: the need for safety, love and respect. The highest level is occupied by metaneeds - the need for perfection, justice, beauty, truth. To the extent of satisfaction lower needs On the path to humanization of man immediately other higher needs appear and begin dominate the body. When they are satisfied, they go out the scene of new needs, of an even higher level, and so on. IN Metamotivation is based on growth needs and values. Exactly like this Motivation, according to Maslow, is inherent to a greater extent in self-actualizing people. individuals who, in his opinion, are satisfied with lower motives. Each level of metamotivation corresponds to certain levels complaints. Complaints regarding lack of safety precautions, arbitrariness bosses, irregular working hours, etc. – these are complaints of the level fundamental needs. The levels of highest complaints lie in the areas recognition and self-esteem: at these levels, issues of pride are important, autonomy, self-respect, respect from others, relevant feelings of self-worth, encouragement, praise, trust from those around you. Highest level complaints concern what causes harm person's self-esteem. Meta-complaints concern the frustration of meta-needs. These include the need for perfection, justice, beauty, truth, etc. excitedly complaining that the roses in the park are not well cared for, this in itself is remarkable because it indicates the height of the standard of living complaining>. In the book, Maslow introduces something new concept – which should be understood how, and develops theory of a mentally healthy society, a society that favors the fullest development and realization of human opportunities. Maslow believed that society should consist of mentally healthy, self-actualized individuals. However, even an ideal society cannot create them. By according to Maslow, enable, encourage, encourage to become real and relevant>. Maslow describes a mentally healthy society as opposed to that workers and management have completely opposite, incompatible goals: workers want to earn as much as possible with with minimal effort, and therefore they must be carefully looked after. Democratic governance assumes that workers want to be creative and productive, that they need support and approval; people are suspicious, hostile, maybe use freedom. The theory of a mentally healthy society is applicable only to those who can take responsibility and use self-government Therefore, a mentally healthy society should consist of self-actualized people. On the path to humanization of man In the chapter (the term was first used by Ruth Benedict and stands for combined action) Maslow writes about synergy in individuals, when the success of others is the basis of complete satisfaction for the individual, and assistance is offered freely and as due. Thus, identifying oneself with others promotes high individual synergy. Synergy can exist within an individual. In perspective a person must do what he needs to do because he wants to do In his work Maslow touches on educational issues. He rightly believes that training dance, art or other physical means of expression – important moment of traditional education: physically and sensually oriented academic subjects require active participation students. According to Maslow, love, respect, a sense of security, - fundamental needs that are equally important for everyone, Unfortunately, most psychology textbooks don’t even mention the word "love">. Maslow introduces a new concept, . The key is. This type of consciousness has something common with, but it is a different type of experience. Author here used the image. According to Maslow, means the sense of enlightenment or awakening, or Zen, in the lightness of the wonderful... it means accepting the sharpness and precision of the beauty of things, but not making of this big noise...> But at the core, According to Maslow, only positive emotions lie. for example, under the influence of fear. Maslow's theory of self-actualization is a theory of growth, sequential satisfying higher needs. The individual cannot begin the path to self-actualization, if his lower needs are not satisfied: in safety, love, respect. Self-actualization involves developing abilities to the maximum possible, self-actualizing individuals are attracted to difficult, intricate problems that require maximum creative effort. Abraham Maslow sees defense mechanisms as obstacles. personal growth, and he himself adds two more types of defenses: desacralization Maslow does not specifically consider the volitional component; according to Maslow, wants to do. Becoming a second-rate doctor is not the way to go self-actualization. Man wants to be first class, or so a good doctor, as much as possible for him>. Maslow believes that On the paths that made man human a mentally healthy individual is free from internal conflicts, and will is needed in order to develop your abilities and talents. Abraham Maslow is rightfully considered the best specialist in the field human potential. His merit is colossal, he founded a new development in modern psychology, the subject of which is I am clearly a human being in the highest manifestations.^ -^ization of personality, its highest values and meanings, -b-^^^^^^ freedom, responsibility, autonomy, mental health, transcendence tion, etc. Akulina N.N. Health and pathology About humanistic biology* My studies in psychology made me think about many things, and some of these thoughts did not fit into the framework of traditional psychology - at least within the framework of the psychology that once I studied. Having become interested in the problems of psychology in the thirties, very soon I found that they cannot be solved by obeying the structure psychological science that had developed by that time (behaviourist, positivistic, non-evaluative, mechanomorphic psychology). And then, quite naturally, I had doubts about correctness of the structure itself, and these doubts prompted me to start search for other approaches to solving problems facing psychology. Co Over time, the results of my research have developed into a philosophical a concept that includes not only psychology, but also science as such, as well as religion, production, management, and from now on biology. Essentially, I would call it a worldview (Weltanschauung). Today's psychology is not united; it is split into many currents. If we try to somehow streamline the current situation psychological science, then we can say that there are at least at least three psychologies and, accordingly, three disparate groups of scientists. The first of them are behaviorists1, objectivists, positivists, mechanics. Second * These are excerpts from notes written by me in March-April 1968 at the request of the director of the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, in the hope that they will help to abandon the innocent concept of biology and accept arming the humanistic philosophy of biology. In these notes I left aside questions that were clearly borderline in biology and devoted himself something that, in my opinion, has not been considered before, or has not been noticed, or was misinterpreted - from my, psychological, point of view. Health and pathology includes a friendly group raised on Freud's psychoanalysis2. The third group is psychologists of the humanistic direction3, or, as it is also called, uniting scientists who are not were able to accept the views of the first two groups. Exactly about this, the third direction in psychology, I'm going to talk. I interpret this the third psychology as a science that has absorbed the achievements of the other two psychology, and therefore I will use terms such as and (means). These terms will help us avoid superficial oppositions such as I am a Freudian, and I am a behaviorist, and I am humanist, and for that matter, all my activities are aimed at development of the fourth psychology – the psychology of the transcendental. Here I speak only on my own behalf. Even among psychologists of the humanistic direction there are those who are more likely to enlist behaviorists and psychoanalysts in the camp of their opponents, than assume that they have an equal right with them to occupy their branch on blossoming tree of science. I think that this kind of psychologists fall into into anti-scientific, and maybe even irrational ecstasy about the role And since I in turn consider only as the initial stage of cognition (a necessary stage, but insufficient) and since I believe that our ultimate goal should be become a dissemination of knowledge much more general and comprehensive, than modern psychology, it’s better for me to speak only from my own This is my choice and my mission - to think freely, build theories, play with guesses and assumptions - in a word, try to penetrate future. This is rather pioneering activity, the work of a pioneer - put forward a bold hypothesis and go in search of new, even unexplored lands than development, sowing and maintenance, irrigation and reclamation measures through the painstaking work of experimenters. Of course, the latter form the backbone of science, but it still seems to me scrupulous work with facts. A pioneer, creator, researcher, as a rule, acts in alone. Tormented by fears and doubts, prone to self-justification, he nevertheless challenges human ignorance, pride, sometimes even paranoia4. He must be brave, he must not be afraid to look funny, must not be afraid of mistakes and constantly remember that he and there is, as Polanyi said (126), a player of his kind who, in full absent Given the facts, one runs the risk of making the most daring assumptions, and then for several years he tries to find confirmation of them. If he is not a madman, then he cannot fully believe his own assumptions and must be well aware of the fact that he bets on something you are not sure about. This is how I present mine here guesses and assumptions. About humanistic biology I believe we cannot avoid discussing the issue of evaluative biology, even if by doing so we call into question all history and philosophy Western science. I am convinced that the non-judgmental, neutral model of science, inherited by biology from physics, chemistry and astronomy, where it was is not only desirable, but necessary to prevent the church from interfere with scientific research - this model is completely unsuitable for scientific knowledge of living things. And it is even more obvious that this non-judgmental philosophy of science is not suitable for studying such complex biological the kind that a person is. Here such concepts as values5, aspirations, goals, intentions become of paramount importance: only by operating with them can one come closer to comprehending the laws human life, and therefore to the solution of classical tasks of science - prediction and control. I am well aware of the heated debates that are taking place within evolutionary theory and in which such words as directions, goals, teleology, vitalism. These debates, in my opinion, confused and unproductive. I would like to move the discussion of these issues to the sphere of psychology, where they can be presented more clearly and where it is possible find more direct ways to solve them. Within the framework of evolutionary theory, disputes about autogenesis in evolution, about whether the movement and direction of development are caused by solely by coincidence, pure chance. For me such reasoning seems like an excessive luxury; it is simply impossible when we are dealing with living people. After all, no one will undertake to assert that this or that person has become a good doctor by chance - no one will take such a statement seriously. Exactly Therefore, I reject all arguments about mechanical determinism6 and do not I consider it necessary to put forward some arguments in favor of my decision. Good people and statistics I dare say that to explore the possibilities of human nature needs to select from the population its healthiest, best specimens, those that would be superior to others in many ways indicators. Let me give you some clear arguments in favor of this. statements. In my research, I came across the fact that people with a high degree of self-actualization7 – the healthiest people in a psychological sense - have very high rates of cognitive and perceptual development abilities8. They may be above other people detectable even at the sensory level; It wouldn't surprise me at all if, for example, some experiment discovered in them the ability to distinguish the finest shades of color. One, once started my unfinished experiment can serve as a model for this kind of tests with Health and pathology My intention was to test all freshmen at Brandeis University, using the best techniques of that time, namely, psychiatric interviews9, projective tests, achievement tests10 – and break them down into several groups. The first of them would include the healthiest two percent in the psychological sense of students, in the second - two percent average-healthy, and, finally, in the third - two percent of the least healthy representatives of the population. These three groups we then planned thoroughly examine using a battery of tests that reveal sensory, perceptual and cognitive characteristics of a person in order to check the assumption based on clinical observations about that people with higher levels of psychological health reflect reality more accurately and truly. I had no doubt that this assumption will be confirmed. Then we planned to watch these people, and not only during their four years of study at university, when we could compare the data obtained with their academic performance and achievements in various areas of university life. I was hoping that we could start a longitudinal study." The idea was that, by observing these people throughout their lives, obtain irrefutable evidence of our hypothesis about human health. Some evaluation criteria were obvious, such as, for example, longevity, resistance to psychosomatic diseases, infections, etc. But we also hoped that during research will reveal other characteristics that we are not talking about assumed. In fact, that study should have been repeated Californian study of Lewis Terman, who is about forty years old ago selected children with high IQ12 scores and then observed them for several decades, which he continues to do and Now. His discovery was that people selected as children experimental group13 only on the basis of intelligence, now adults are superior to their peers from the control group in all the parameters he tested. From this Lewis draws the following conclusion: everything the best in a person, all those qualities that one could wish for him, positively correlate14 with each other. The significance of this type of research lies primarily in the fact that it radically change our view of statistics and especially how they section that is in charge of selecting material for the experiment. To me I would like to call it bluntly. If we ask ourselves what are the capabilities of man as a biological type15, then this question should be attributed rather to a small selected group of people rather than the population as a whole. In my opinion, the main the reason for the failure of hedonistic and ethical theories lies in that philosophers confused the pathological desire for pleasure with healthy and did not even delineate the line between normality and pathology, between biologically healthy and unhealthy individuals. About humanistic biology To find out how tall a person can be, it is quite obvious that the tallest people need to be selected and studied their. To find out how fast a person can run, you don’t need derive the arithmetic average speed of all humanity as a whole, - you just need to take the Olympic champions in running and see how well they do it. If we want to know the possibilities spiritual and personal growth of a person, his moral development, then here, I am sure, we will learn more by studying the most righteous, the most respectable representatives of the human race. Overall, I think it's fair to say that the story humanity is a series of evidence of how society does not care about anythingNotes
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