Proposition 004 – Civilisation and individual conduct

In interaction with personality characteristics and the concrete situa­tion, personal civilisation determines the individual’s thinking, judge­ment, volition and conduct.

• Explanation. Personal civilisation is distinguished here from personality characteristics and from the concrete situation. Personal civilisation is learned; personality characteris­tics are regarded here as individual characteristics that do not belong to personal civili­sation and may have an innate basis. The concrete situation is the context present at the relevant moment in which the individual thinks, judges, wills and acts. The actual out­come is determined by the interaction among these three factors.