I think of the 'self' as in a ratio like relationship with the world (given that neither is real) and that to live as a self in a world of others requires a Janus-like dance on the threshold between the two poles of our 'nature'.
The discussion here of a self-concept highlights how much worlding there is in selfing.
The evidence of behavioural change here outlines the impact of worlding on selfing, and the last comments on moral accord emphasize that ideological commitment or loyalty-based identitarian selfing lead to bad worlding. The world is made to match a self-concept, there is no dance.
I feel 'prosocial' as a term does not recognize the world quite enough, and still treats us like fish unaware of the water we live in. (Too self-based).
Both the self and the world are in our heads. Ignoring the world leaves us all alone and misunderstood. Those who lack empathy have no ratio or Janus dancing activity, narcissists/psychopaths are the world and everything else is a threat to that world. This is why loyalty is sought by narcissists from their minions or flying monkeys, until they are dumped when it is beneficial.
[A reader's reaction to Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World and The Secret of our Success are in the works). I think this ratio applies regardless of a culture's presentation as analytic or relationship in framing.
I think of the 'self' as in a ratio like relationship with the world (given that neither is real) and that to live as a self in a world of others requires a Janus-like dance on the threshold between the two poles of our 'nature'.
The discussion here of a self-concept highlights how much worlding there is in selfing.
The evidence of behavioural change here outlines the impact of worlding on selfing, and the last comments on moral accord emphasize that ideological commitment or loyalty-based identitarian selfing lead to bad worlding. The world is made to match a self-concept, there is no dance.
I feel 'prosocial' as a term does not recognize the world quite enough, and still treats us like fish unaware of the water we live in. (Too self-based).
Both the self and the world are in our heads. Ignoring the world leaves us all alone and misunderstood. Those who lack empathy have no ratio or Janus dancing activity, narcissists/psychopaths are the world and everything else is a threat to that world. This is why loyalty is sought by narcissists from their minions or flying monkeys, until they are dumped when it is beneficial.
[A reader's reaction to Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World and The Secret of our Success are in the works). I think this ratio applies regardless of a culture's presentation as analytic or relationship in framing.
RE: 'prosociality' versus 'worlding' as ngram
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=prosociality%2Cworlding&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=1&case_insensitive=true
I'm gobsmacked.
see also https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/worldbuilding-101