TY - JOUR
T1 - Theories of personality
T2 - Interpretations of reality and the formation of personality
AU - Sorajjakool, Siroj
N1 - The history of humanity is the history of the human quest for the understanding of reality. While the quest continues, the reality remains ungrasped. This is so because we are contextual beings. We...
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The history of humanity is the history of the human quest for the understanding of reality. While the quest continues, the reality remains ungrasped. This is so because we are contextual beings. We grasp reality from within our existential contexts. Hence, what we have is our interpretation, and we act in accord with the reality that we have come to embrace. With the hermeneutical process leading to the formation of personality, the actuality of reality is constantly being reinterpreted through human behavior.
AB - The history of humanity is the history of the human quest for the understanding of reality. While the quest continues, the reality remains ungrasped. This is so because we are contextual beings. We grasp reality from within our existential contexts. Hence, what we have is our interpretation, and we act in accord with the reality that we have come to embrace. With the hermeneutical process leading to the formation of personality, the actuality of reality is constantly being reinterpreted through human behavior.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1022046811192
DO - 10.1023/A:1022046811192
M3 - Review article
SN - 0031-2789
VL - 48
SP - 143
EP - 158
JO - Pastoral Psychology
JF - Pastoral Psychology
IS - 2
ER -