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| style="padding:15px;" |''“[T]he ‘positive’ conception of freedom as self-mastery, with its suggestion of a man divided against himself, has in fact, and as a matter of history, of doctrine and of practice, lent itself more easily to this splitting of personality into two: the transcendent, dominant controller, and the empirical bundle of desires and passions to be disciplined and brought to heel. ... This demonstrates (if demonstration of so obvious a truth is needed) that conceptions of freedom directly derive from views of what constitutes a self, a person, a man. Enough manipulation of the definition of man, and freedom can be made to mean whatever the manipulator wishes.”'' | | style="padding:15px;" |''“[T]he ‘positive’ conception of freedom as self-mastery, with its suggestion of a man divided against himself, has in fact, and as a matter of history, of doctrine and of practice, lent itself more easily to this splitting of personality into two: the transcendent, dominant controller, and the empirical bundle of desires and passions to be disciplined and brought to heel. ... This demonstrates (if demonstration of so obvious a truth is needed) that conceptions of freedom directly derive from views of what constitutes a self, a person, a man. Enough manipulation of the definition of man, and freedom can be made to mean whatever the manipulator wishes.”'' | ||
| − | <div style="padding-left:40px;">— Isaiah Berlin,<ref name="Levin2017">{{cite book |title=Rediscovering Americanism and the tyranny of progressivism |author=Mark R. Levin |publisher=Treshold Edition |place=New York |pages= | + | <div style="padding-left:40px;">— Isaiah Berlin,<ref name="Levin2017">{{cite book |title=Rediscovering Americanism and the tyranny of progressivism |author=Mark R. Levin |publisher=Treshold Edition |place=New York |pages=152–3 |isbn=978-1-4767-7308-7 |url=http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rediscovering-Americanism/Mark-R-Levin/9781476773087}}</ref> </div> |
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'''Personality''' is the way [[people]] think, feel, and behave.<ref>[http://www.personalityresearch.org/ Great Ideas in Personality]</ref> | '''Personality''' is the way [[people]] think, feel, and behave.<ref>[http://www.personalityresearch.org/ Great Ideas in Personality]</ref> | ||
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*[[Personality disorder]] | *[[Personality disorder]] | ||
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| “[T]he ‘positive’ conception of freedom as self-mastery, with its suggestion of a man divided against himself, has in fact, and as a matter of history, of doctrine and of practice, lent itself more easily to this splitting of personality into two: the transcendent, dominant controller, and the empirical bundle of desires and passions to be disciplined and brought to heel. ... This demonstrates (if demonstration of so obvious a truth is needed) that conceptions of freedom directly derive from views of what constitutes a self, a person, a man. Enough manipulation of the definition of man, and freedom can be made to mean whatever the manipulator wishes.”
— Isaiah Berlin,[1]
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Personality is the way people think, feel, and behave.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Mark R. Levin. Rediscovering Americanism and the tyranny of progressivism. Treshold Edition, 152–3. ISBN 978-1-4767-7308-7.
- ↑ Great Ideas in Personality