Keyword: Selbstentfaltung

The notion plays an central role in Oekonux

• More than self-realization

  Self-realization focuses too much on the isolated individual

  Selbstentfaltung understands humans as formed by their relations

• Responsibility is part of Selbstentfaltung

  Taking necessities into account belongs to responsibility

  Responsibility needs to be recognized individually

  Responsibility is learned and therefore coupled with the norms of the society

• Selbstentfaltung is "autonomy-in-interdependence"

  • Dependency is not reduction but extension of own possibilities

    Because others from whom I depend create possibilities by their actions I would not have if only by myself

• Selbstentfaltung of the single person is direct precondition for the Selbstentfaltung of all

  • And vice-versa

• Potential for Selbstentfaltung is essential feature of humans

  See critical psychology (Holzkamp)

  • Content is different for every individual

    Particularly it's not necessarily political correct

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