Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Kultur; Symbol

Kurzinhalt: Lenkung der Ängste und Sehnsüchte durch die Kultur; Forderung nach transkulturellen Normen

Textausschnitt: () We experience the world spontaneously not as knowers or as choosers, but in terms of our desires and fears. Such desires and fears are transcultural, but how they are cultivated depends on the practices and symbols of the cultural world we are born and reared in.
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If we now repeat our first question, What am I doing when I am deliberating and deciding?, the answer can be briefly stated in the context we have just articulated. When we deliberate and decide, we are doing so in the context of cultural norms and standards that we believe to be authentic and truly valuable.