- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The Human Essence
- An Existential Psychological Perspective on the Human Essence
- Masters of Our Universe: The Existential Animal
- Free Will and the Human Essence: Responsible Autonomy, Meaning, and Cultural Participation
- Essential Self-Evaluation Motives: Caring About Who We Are
- The Tripartite Motivational Human Essence: Value, Control, and Truth Working Together
- People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence
- The Obviousness and Obvious Limits of Individuality as Human Essence
- Prosocial Behavior as a Human Essence
- The Human Essence in Helping Relations: Belongingness, Independence, and Status
- Does Aggression Make Us Human?
- Morality and Social Identity
- Justice and Human Essence
- Biology as Destiny or as Freedom? On Reflexivity, Collectivity, and the Realization of Human PotentialStephen Reicher
- Six Social Elements in Search of an Essence
- Talking about Humanness: Is Human Essence Talk a Human Essence?
- Promoting or Preventing Change Through Political Participation: About Political Actors, Movements, and Networks
- Values and the Human Being
- The Relational Essence of Cultural Psychology: Decolonizing Love and (Well-) Being
- Human Essence: Toward a Relational Reconstruction
- Human Essences and Cultural Embeddedness: A Gene-Culture Co-Evolution Perspective
- Human Essence in Conclusion: Why Psychology Needs a Bigger Picture and Some Suggestions on How to Get There
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter examines the six elements of sociality and highlights some common and interrelated themes that emerge from the previous section. One such theme, for which the authors take different positions, is the relationship of “animality” to the human essence. Other important facets of humanity are discussed: moral disengagement, human nature, and human uniqueness. The chapter considers how abstract concepts such as morality and justice offer ways in which to reflect upon the more basic building blocks of human relationships such as punishment and helping. Different motivations and reactions concerning helping behavior are proposed to have roots in uniquely human phenomena such as gratitude and self-regard.
Keywords: justice, moral disengagement, morality, motivation, punishment, relationships, sociality, uniqueness, animality, human essence
Roger Giner-Sorolla, School of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, England, UK
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The Human Essence
- An Existential Psychological Perspective on the Human Essence
- Masters of Our Universe: The Existential Animal
- Free Will and the Human Essence: Responsible Autonomy, Meaning, and Cultural Participation
- Essential Self-Evaluation Motives: Caring About Who We Are
- The Tripartite Motivational Human Essence: Value, Control, and Truth Working Together
- People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence
- The Obviousness and Obvious Limits of Individuality as Human Essence
- Prosocial Behavior as a Human Essence
- The Human Essence in Helping Relations: Belongingness, Independence, and Status
- Does Aggression Make Us Human?
- Morality and Social Identity
- Justice and Human Essence
- Biology as Destiny or as Freedom? On Reflexivity, Collectivity, and the Realization of Human PotentialStephen Reicher
- Six Social Elements in Search of an Essence
- Talking about Humanness: Is Human Essence Talk a Human Essence?
- Promoting or Preventing Change Through Political Participation: About Political Actors, Movements, and Networks
- Values and the Human Being
- The Relational Essence of Cultural Psychology: Decolonizing Love and (Well-) Being
- Human Essence: Toward a Relational Reconstruction
- Human Essences and Cultural Embeddedness: A Gene-Culture Co-Evolution Perspective
- Human Essence in Conclusion: Why Psychology Needs a Bigger Picture and Some Suggestions on How to Get There
- Index
