Sustained human development as a psycho-social evolution from individuality to personality

Dilip Dutta

International Journal of Development Issues, 2014, vol. 13, issue 3, 188-203

Abstract: Purpose - – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how Vivekananda, in his quest for sustained human development, explores a new generation of humanity by combining some of the active and heroic personality elements of the West with the meditative and yogic personality skills of the East. Design/methodology/approach - – Because of Vivekananda’s pioneering efforts in the last decade of the 19th century, ancient India’s Vedânta philosophy of human life, along with the Yoga system, has now become a common heritage of all mankind. Vivekananda’s assertion that a human being is potentially divine – one of the major tenets of ancient India’s Vedânta philosophy – has been used as the philosophical foundation of sustained human development. Findings - – A psycho-physical human being’s initial individuality could be developed towards a psycho-social personality with its manifold existence by manifesting the aesthetic, ethical, heroic and spiritual possibilities lying hidden in an individual person. Originality/value - – Persons with different degrees of higher assimilative qualities create different personalities. A psycho-social personality could lead to the path of sustained human development essentially by controlling its mind.

Keywords: Social responsibility; Yoga; Human mind; Human personality; Origin of Vedânta philosophy; Psycho-social evolution; Sustained human development; Vedas; Upanishads (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1108/IJDI-06-2014-0050

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