Domain: Personal Civilisation

The process through which an individual explains or reinterprets a perceived con­tradiction between civilisation elements, or between civilisation elements and con­duct, in such a way that they once again become compatible with the existing personal civilisation.

The historically formed configuration, existing at a particular moment, of concep­tions and assumptions about reality, norms and values, behavioural repertoires, goals and ideals through which an individual interprets and evaluates the world in different situations and acts within it.

Civilisation elements through which conduct, persons, institutions and social condi­tions or outcomes are judged as right or wrong, permissible or impermissible, or de­sirable or undesirable.

Civilisation elements consisting of representations of personal or social conditions, relations or outcomes that an individual or social circle considers worth pursuing.

The civilisation elements that are consciously accessible or unconsciously operative for an individual at a particular moment and through which that individual inter­prets and evaluates the world, forms goals and directs conduct, insofar as these ele­ments can in principle be made empirically ascertainable and measurable for the application of the theory.

Civilisation elements concerning what an individual or social circle holds to be true, probable or credible, including conceptions of what exists or has occurred, causes and consequences, reliable sources, expertise, authority and convincing forms of evidence.