Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393317039

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by Rollo May (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 284

Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN

Publication Date: October 26, 2012

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