Description
Rollo 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 Dr. May 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 and 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; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.
Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/1998
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780393317039
ISBN10: 039331703X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Social Psychology
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; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.
Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/1998
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780393317039
ISBN10: 039331703X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Social Psychology