On average, women worldwide are more attracted to vocations centered on people and men to vocations centered on things.Ĥ.
On average, females worldwide have advantages in verbal ability and social cognition while males have advantages in visuospatial abilities and the extremes of mathematical ability.ģ. Sex differences in personality are consistent worldwide and tend to widen in more gender-egalitarian cultures.Ģ. I am prepared to defend all of them as “things we don’t have to argue about anymore”-but exactly as I worded them, not as others may paraphrase them.ġ. But to meet that claim requires me to state the propositions precisely. On certain important points, the clamor of genuine scientific dispute has abated and we don’t have to argue about them anymore. are not as snappy as I would prefer-but there’s a reason for their caution and caveats. “The propositions that accompany most of the chapters. Knowing that we have responsibility for the consequences of our actions is a major part of what makes life worth living.”Ĭoming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards. The underlying meaning of that coupling-freedom and responsibility-is crucial. All of these good things in life-self-respect, intimate relationships, and self-actualization-require freedom in the only way that freedom is meaningful: freedom to act in all arenas of life coupled with responsibility for the consequences of those actions. Self-actualization intrinsically requires an exploration of possibilities for life beyond the obvious and convenient.
People need self-actualization, but self-actualization is not a straight road, visible in advance, running from point A to point B. People need intimate relationships with others, but intimate relationships that are rich and fulfilling need content, and that content is supplied only when humans are engaged in interactions that have consequences.
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned-it cannot be self-respect if it’s not earned-and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing. The ways in which food and shelter are obtained affects whether the other human needs are met. But in an advanced society, the needs for food and shelter can be met in a variety of ways, and at that point human needs can no longer be disaggregated.
Then, food and shelter are all that count. “The tacit assumption of the advanced welfare state is correct when human beings face starvation or death by exposure.
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