L7 | TRANSCENDENCE

• TRANSCENDENCE

  • ability to surpass limits 
  • one important trait that distinguishes the human person from other beings in existence
• TRANSCENDENCE

  • overcoming oneself or being in control even if the body reminds us of certain tendencies. 
  • The person can govern these tendencies and ensure that they are exercised within the bounds of reason.
• TRANSCENDENCE

  • Each individual carries within himself the possibility of transcending his limits by exerting enough effort and perseverance
• TRANSCENDENCE

  • We must identify and face our own personal limits. 
  • Essence of transcendence is:
  • to acknowledge our limitations
  • identify possibilities for development
  • change ourselves for the better.
• TRANSCENDENCE ACCORDING TO ABRAHAM MASLOW

  • very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos.
• • “Transcendence of self—living at the level of Being—is assumed to be most possible for the person with a strong and free identity, i.e., for the self-actualizing person.”
• ABRAHAM MASLOW HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

  A) SELF ACTUALIZATION

  B) SELF ESTEEM

  C) LOVE AND BELONGING

  D) SAFETY AND SECURITY

  E) PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS