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Vryheid in menslike identiteitsvorming en sinbelewing: alternatiewe vir deterministiese benaderings
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 57, No 1 | a774 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v57i1.774
| © 1992 Magda van Niekerk
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 28 January 1992 | Published: 28 January 1992
Submitted: 28 January 1992 | Published: 28 January 1992
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Magda van Niekerk, Dept. Afrikaans-Nederlands Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir CHO POTCHEFSTROOM, South AfricaFull Text:
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Representatives of humanist approaches in psychology answer the basic question o f the meaningfulness o f life by overemphasizing human freedom, thereby differing from determinist schools. Man forms his own identity in an independent way, via the possibilities of a free choice o f objectives and ideals and by means of his freedom in adapting to circumstances. In this article the concepts o f meaning and identity, as presented by four prominent humanist psychologists, ‘are investigated. In spite of doing justice to the humanity of man to a larger extent than in the case of determinist theories, humanist approaches fall short f presenting an integrated view of man implied by the Biblical perspective on the central religious dimension o f the existence of man. Nevertheless, these theories entail insights that can be integrated into an own theory within the framework of the reformational paradigm.
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