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intensive and extensive consciousness of himself and his situation can hope to be such a man. What is required is “essential thinking” (Heideggar) or “total seeing" (J. Krishnamurti), or “luminous encompassive thinking” (Karl Jaspers). "Multi-dimensional vision is the epistemological basis of multi-dimensional reality. Only a multidimensional personality can comprehend the multi-dimensional reality. Hence, multi-dimensional personality is an aid in the struggle for existence for a good life.
References: 1. Herbert Marcuse, One-dimensional Man. London: Routlege, 1991,
2nd Edition, P. 4. 2. R. D. Laing, The Divided self, Preface to the Pelican Edition,
1965, P. 11. 3. Ibid. P. 26. 4. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, London: Pan Books, 1970, P. 290. 5. Erich Fromm, Man For Himself, New York: Faweett Premier,
1975, P. 58. 6. James V. Mc Connell, Understanding Human Behaviour, New
York: Holt, Renehart and Winston, 3rd Ed. P. 562. 7. See N.L. Munn, Psychology, London: Gorge G. Harrap, Third
Ed. 1956, pp. 160-61. 8. R.D. Laing, The Divided Self, p. 97. 9. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, see chapter 15. “The Physical
Dimension", pp. 296-311. 10. Ibid, Ch. 16, p. 312. 11. Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of PoliticalEconomy. 12. Rosa Luxembourg, Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism,
Ann Arbor, Michigan University, 1961-p. 93. 13. Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chairs of Illusion, ABACUS, London,
1980, p. 102. 14. Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be London: ABACUS, 1979,p.134. 15. N. Munn, Ibid, p. 174.
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