New sources and civilisation elements are interpreted through the personal civilisation already formed.
Domain: Civilising
Proposition 013 – Increasing source selection
As an individual becomes more independent, that individual can increasingly determine which sources of civilising to encounter.
Proposition 012 – Expanding sources of civilising
As an individual grows older, both the number of sources of civilising and the variety of civilisation elements transmitted increase.
Proposition 011 – Earliest sources of civilising
Immediately after birth, an individual is civilised by the persons on whom that individual is directly dependent and through what is perceived from them by the senses.
System of ideas
A coherent set of ideas about reality, norms and values, appropriate courses of action, and goals and ideals to be pursued.
Narrative
The coherent and transmissible representation through which a system of ideas is explained and legitimated so that others can understand, evaluate and internalise it.
Internalisation
The process through which externally presented civilisation elements become part of an individual’s personal civilisation and thereby help direct that individual’s thinking, judgement and conduct.
Idea
Transmissible mental content concerning how reality is understood, what is regarded as right or desirable, which courses of action are appropriate or available, or which goals and ideals are pursued. In this theory, civilisation elements are collectively described as the ideas that give content to a civilisation.
Civilising
The continuous process through which civilisation elements are formed, transmitted, internalised, maintained, interpreted, modified, strengthened, weakened or rejected, and through which personal and circle civilisations arise, continue and change.