Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Social Psychology
Cover of the book Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence by Rollo May, W. W. Norton & Company
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Author: Rollo May ISBN: 9780393249637
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: March 17, 1998
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Rollo May
ISBN: 9780393249637
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: March 17, 1998
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society.

Rollo May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that Dr. May sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil.

Dr. May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.

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Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society.

Rollo May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that Dr. May sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil.

Dr. May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.

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