Human Potentialities

by Gardner Murphy

Book Overview

Murphy traces the psychological development of humans. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465031498
• ISBN13: 9780465031498
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Human Potentialities

Human Potentialities is the mature work of one of the eminent scientists of our time. It brings to bear the knowledge and methods of modern psychology upon its exploration of man as a still-developing organism. The author traces the development of man from the simple, biologically motivated mammalian, through the more complex organism evolving from the interaction with its cultural mold, to the next stage of human grawth - in which, Dr. Murphy foresees, man's creative drive will transcend his biological and cultural inheritances to open the way for a broad, free expression of his capacity for love and knowledge. According to Murphy, man's growing control of the forces of nature gives us every reason to believe that he is poised on the threshold of evolutionary changes as great or even greater than those that have occurred since Homo sapiens first appeared on earth. He believes that man's knowledge of physics, biochemistry, psychology, and genetics, among the sciences, makes it possible - and perhaps even probable - that, for the first time in history, conscious choice and deliberate decision can affect the biological directions of the race's potential development. --- from book's back cover