By the same token, concern for education and recognition of its power to effect
changes in human personality are incompatible with racial prejudice and help to diminish bias.
A moral disposition toward one's world, and a prior assent to certain moral criteria, are the preconditions of there being any psychological order and consistency at
all in a human personality.
There are indeed clear signs of transcendence over the material
order in the human personality; not just higher refinements of animal behaviour — although of course these are also present — but factors that operate on a truly novel principle.
Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble
triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.
He worships because he must; there is some
drive in human personality that forces him to go out of himself in adoration of that which is other than himself.
This reductionism implied a rejection of any height
dimension in human personality having its own inherent integrity in the functioning of personality.
As C. N. Cochrane says in his Christianity and Classical Culture, the Christian faith discovered a
depth in human personality which classical culture had not envisaged.10
And I think we know this, there's some people who are just a little bit more anxious than others and that
diversity in human personality probably helped us evolutionarily and so I think there was obviously an evolutionary advantage for someone who's nervous system was a bit more responsive.
Hand in hand with this discovery of external reality (which was to culminate in the establishment of landscape painting and still life painting as genres in their own right) goes an increased
interest in human personality: more and more the artist sees himself as a unique individual.
«We believe: That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life; That the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations; That economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise; That government should be of laws rather than of men; That earth's great treasure
lies in human personality; And that service to humanity is the best work of life.»
The report concluded that, as global climate change continues, «we may also observe concomitant
changes in human personality,» with the caveat that the extent of such changes «await [s] future investigation.»
Accordingly, he understands electrons and atoms in terms of «an analogy between the transference of energy from particular occasion to particular occasion in physical nature and the transference of affective tone, with its emotional energy, from one occasion to
another in any human personality.