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Theme 15 : Construction of the personality in selfstudying
I. The personality as the integrity of the inherited and acquired.
1. Psychic parameters (temperament, accentuation of psyche).
2. Modification of natural abilities and non-realization of the personality.
3. Spiritual deformity and spiritual beauty:
a) kindness: dependence on evaluation mechanism;
b) sense of justice: analytism, tradition and outlook;
c) love for one's neighbor: concrete vision (impossibility to love the human race at large);
d) meaning of life: an individual may have a spiritual (or non-spiritual) goal, life in general and
as such cannot (theology is not considered here); spiritual parameters of the meaning of
life (aspiration for knowledge; a path to independent thinking - "a path to the
co-planeterian"; contribution to the noosphere through personal involvent into culture;
possible satisfaction with own life in connection with realization of a personality and
fulfillment of the goal: one can earn before-death peace only by lifetime unrest;
e) broad interests; multi-sided development of a personality as a circumstance of his/her
spiritual beauty (a shallow-minded person is ugly);
f) coefficient of attractiveness and a personality's striving for perfection (the inner carrier);
g) heritage of a personality: spirituality transmitted by descendants.
4. Acquired spiritual qualities and selfstudying:
a) persistence (transformed from stubbornness);
b) keenness of analysis (transformed from inclination to intellectual speculations, so called
reverie);
c) perfect accuracy in work (transformed from the qualities of anancast);
d) arrangement of a tree-like social group of intellectual and spiritual orientation
(transformed love for power, inherited inclination for leadership);
e) developed ability to accumulate feelings and states (transformed from inborn
sentimentality);
f) easy mastering of motoric stereotypes and as a consequence - broad instrumental
knowledge (transformed from "coolness of prudent mind");
g) ability of immediate shifting to another activity (developed multi-channel studying);
h) deep research activity (transformed from inherited suspiciousness (and hypochondria).
5. Acquired quality as a marginal success in selfstudying:
a) sense of independence from a bad habit;
b) psychic stability of a learner, the so called power of character;
c) intimate power is one of possible gains (liquidation of natural selfishness and sense of
property in intimate life, priorities of delights and evaluations of attractiveness; greater
flexibility of psyche, sensation of a "philosophic individual being connected with the
eternal and immortal."
II. Architectonics of a personality, correction of ideals and selfstudying.
1. Dialectics of a personality (boundaries shaped genetically shaped and striving for extension.
"Man is an extending universe").
2. Base of knowledge and foundation of a personality (assertiveness of a knowledgeable person,
possibility to make a choice of trends in one's development (vision of road signs), desire to
construct one's own personality).
3. Floors of a personality and a person's age (the connection between one's life experience, the
acquired ability to abstract from one's own person and spiritual - intellectual acts); the
number of spiritual acts is equal to the number of floors.
4. The spiritual and intellectual act as the main instrument of constructing a personality ( the
phenomenon of A. Thoreau's "withdrawal to get ready for entrance").
5. Greater exactness to oneself connected with the ideal's correction of the ideal is the source of
power for an intellectual and spiritual act.
III. A personality in extreme states.
1. Outplaying of situations.
2. Patterning of behavior.
3. The autodidact's workload.
4. Life as a continuum of nervous and psychic loads and selfstudying
(I. Annensky's "horror of life").
IV. Openness of subjective world as an autodidact's aim.
1. "If you don't want anybody to learn about it then don't do it" (a Chinese proverb).
2. "A genius has nothing to conceal" (A. Pushkin).
3. Antinomy: "the philistine" (a closed system) - the creative personality (an open system).* * *
| Inflated with pride and vain littleness the youth was sick, additionally sick: first illness is the shortening — a trick of making nothing from the inner stillness, a too great waste of time, of stream of days, nights where same melodies so sweety sound and freedom of intention is a ground for feelings with the voice of Barbara Straisand. We always are abridged compared with plans with that young force that strings so lucky strain, with one born in ourselves, but, really, upper. And we again surprise and wish to fly but body stays below full of “whys” and only like inflated bird of rubber. |
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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