A fully developed personality handles suffering without inflicting it on others
Evidence
Do not regard their marginality as fatal in their pursuit of a wholesome and enjoyable life. Their basic values are human and universal … [when] they encounter discrimination and prejudice, they react with dignity and broad understanding … There develops an intelligent pursuit of one’s goals, including efforts to reduce discrimination in society and increase democracy. There develops a broad compassion for oppressed people whoever they are. In short, sympathy, courage, persistence, and dignity mark such a personality … a fully developed personality is one that can handle its suffering without inflicting suffering in return. (p. 161) What Allport roughly sketched is a two-factor model of targets’ responses to prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1057
Categorization
- APHORISMS: A timeless formulation: maturity as absorbing suffering without transmitting it — worth returning to as life advice.
- XREF: Connects to the intropunitive/extropunitive dichotomy of Allport’s victim reactions being discussed across this whole chapter. — connects to: Habitual suffering enables interpretive skill and invention beyond immediate need — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 532
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1057