Power and love : an exploratioin of counselling goals
| dc.contributor.author | Faris, Kenneth H. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-13T22:16:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-13T22:16:37Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1978 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1978 | |
| dc.degree.department | Faculty of Education | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study considers the relationship between self-concern and concern for others in response to accusations that the human potential movement and therapy in general promote selfishness at the expense of social responsibility. A philosophical base for dealing with this question is sought in Paul Tillich's ontology of power and love. An attempt is made to show that these are inter-related and interdependent. Self-concern is described as deriving from our power to affirm and express the validity of our own being in the world against internal and external resistance, while "other-concern" (concern for others) is described as deriving from love, the drive we experience towards union with others. Union can only be achieved when one is able to experience and respond to the intrinsically valuable uniqueness and separateness of another. It is argued that I am unable to affirm your validity as a separate person unless I am also able to affirm my own. Yet, equally, I cannot deeply affirm my own until I can also grasp, accept and affirm yours. The concepts of evil and ambiguity are explored to show how personal power becomes distorted into power over others and love into "need love," both giving rise to attempts to manipulate, control and change others. A perspective on self-actualization is developed based on an examination of essential selfhood, and the actualizing power of love is discussed, the aims being to show the intimate relationship between power and love and how they manifest themselves in life. Finally, the central goal of counselling is identified as helping the individual come more deeply into touch with his own power and love. Concepts such as morality, freedom, justice, aloneness, self-responsibility, the goodness of one's essential humanity, self-awareness and self-acceptance are also examined, in order to illuminate some major aspects of the process whereby this goal can be realized. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 165 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/17738 | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | Power and love : an exploratioin of counselling goals | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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