Cards (2)

    • All characteristics that are “peculiarly mine” belong to this
    • All those characteristics that people see as peculiarly their own and that are regarded as warm, central, and important.
    • not the whole personality, because many characteristics and behaviors of a person are not warm and central; rather, they exist on the periphery of personality
    • includes those aspects of life that a person regards as important to a sense of self-identity and self-enhancement
    • includes a person’s values as well as that part of the conscience that is personal and consistent with one’s adult beliefs.
    Proprium
    • one shared by most people within a given culture
    • may be only peripheral to a person’s sense of personhood and thus outside that person’s proprium.
    Generalized Conscience