Foundational paper · 01
A preliminary conceptual framework and research agenda for scientific investigation.
Human Self-Formative Capacity HSFC
The Human Capacity for Self-Formation
A research project concerned with how people actively participate in their own ongoing self-formation by transforming life material into changes in understanding and action.
HSFChypothesized field
Life material
Recognition
Relating
Meaning-making
Decision
Action
Consolidation
Transfer
01 · Core idea
“People do not differ only in what happens to them, but also in what they are able to make of what happens to them.”
HSFC concerns how people may use knowledge, experience, relationships, opportunities, freedom, comfort, success, mistakes, constraints and internal contradictions as material for their own further formation.
knowledgeexperiencerelationshipsopportunitiesfreedomcomfortsuccessmistakesconstraintsinternal contradictions
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Published foundation
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Essays
Essay · 07
Can We Believe in the Impossible Without Losing the Ability to Distinguish What Is Real?
Through the Looking-Glass, the White Queen, and the Limits of Transformative Imagination
English
When imagination opens the possibility of something new — and why belief alone is not enough to make it real
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Core research questions
The project is organized around questions that could support, revise or reject the proposed framework.
Does HSFC constitute an empirically distinguishable psychological construct?
Is a process profile more informative than a single overall score?
How can self-formation be distinguished from externally compelled adaptation?