Multidimensional Application of Anekantavada

SR No.: 014009
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey, Bhagchandra Jain Bhaskar
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 552
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 9 MB

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Multi-dimensionality of Human personality
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continuities-says Alvin Toffler. There are the existential and the historical dichotomies in man. Men are alike, for they share the human situation and its inherent existential dichotomies; they are unique in the specific way they solve their human problem. The infinite diversities of personalities is in itself characteristic of human existence.
Psychology has had its Freud, Jung, and Adler, its Erickson and Maslow, its Larl Rogers and B.F. Skinner etc. but it is still awaiting its Newton, which will give us more adequate comprehension of human personality. By ignoring individual differences among the stars, Sir Isac could focus the attention on their behaviour or dynamics. It is tragedy that “the personality theorists have focused either on the structure of an individual's personality or on dynamics but not both. Personality does not exist in a vacuum. It has also socio-ethical cultural dimensions, apart from its biological-physiological traits. When personality is viewed from the standpoint of the ethical or the moral, it is called 'Character?.? When we express our likes and dislikes about a person, we have the social dimension before us. Man's being can be seen from different points of view. A man without a mask is indeed very rare. Everyone in some measure wears a mask. That is why the Greek word for 'Persona' means a ‘mask'. However the false, self of the schizoid individual differs in certain important respects from the mask worn by the ‘normal' person or from the hysteric.
The Physical Dimension : Differences in physique are obvious: as the pyknic, the athdebic and the asthenic. Temperature, pressure caloric inbake, oxygen and carbon-di-oxide levels, all set absolute boundaries beyond which man, as presently constituted cannot venture. There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. The level of our environment has direct physical consequences. But if we overload an environment with novelty, we get the equivalent of anxiety neurotics. True, change is not merely necessary to life; it is life. And life is adaptation. But then there are limits on adaptability. Each orientation response, each adoptive reaction exacts a price, wearing down the body's machinery bit by minute bit, until perceptible tissue damage results
The Psychological Dimension: Psycho-physiologists hold