strategy

Articulating self-consciousness

Synonyms:
Living by self-realization ethic
Articulating individual self-consciousness
Realizing self
Description:

Facilitating development of the emergent self, also by ensuring the social environment to allow for this. Illuminating self-consciousness through cultural depth, destiny and gifts. The effect can be the motivating self-story.

Context:

An integral part of interpreting unlimited responsibility to provide common symbols and perspectives for individuals to act out their lives in a comprehensive context of responsible global stewardship.

Implementation:

Tactics include: interpretive history to deepen man's self-image by rooting him in his historical traditions and origins; culture involvement to enable man to act creatively in his present situation by giving him a more comprehensive view of his and other cultures; grounding the individual in the cultural and political reality of life instead of the 'should be' or 'ought to be'; transmission vehicle to provide the popular communication tools to get the message of man to himself; and futuristic vision to give man a sense of his own radical projection into future history by creating a sense of responsibility. An example could be a black pre-school teacher having only an 8th grade education, teaching in the most advanced educational system in the world, motivated by the black man's story.

Claim:

The proper end of all individual experience is the evolutionary and harmonious development of the emergent self (both as a person and as a part of wide collectivities), and the appropriate function of social institutions is to create an environment which will foster that process.

Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies