The Human Becoming School of Thought
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, RN; PhD; FAAN
The human becoming school of thought is a unique paradigm explicating the human-universe process. The ontology of the human becoming school of thought is specified in its philosophical assumptions and principles. In this ontology, the human-universe process is mutual; the human structures personal meaning from multidimensional options; the human is free to choose in situation; the human lives paradoxical patterns of relating; and, the human moves beyond with possibles (see table below). The epistemology and methodologies congruent with human becoming all evolve from the ontology.
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Assumptions About Human Becoming |
Principles of HumanBecoming |
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The human is coexisting while coconstituting rhythmical patterns with the universe. The human is open, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions. The human is unitary, continuously coconstituting patterns of relating. The human is transcending multidimensionally with the possibles. Becoming is unitary human-living-health. Becoming is a rhythmically coconstituting human-universe process. Becoming is the human=s patterns of relating value priorities. Becoming is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles. Becoming is unitary human=s emerging. |
Human becoming is freely choosing personal meaning in situation in the intersubjective process of living value priorities. Human becoming is cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe. Human becoming is cotranscending multidimensionally with emerging possibles. |
Structuring meaning multidimensionally is cocreating reality through the languaging of valuing and imaging. Cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating is living the paradoxical unity of revealing-concealing and enabling-limiting while connecting-separating. Cotranscending with the possibles is powering unique ways of originating in the process of transforming. |
From: Parse, R. R. (1998). The human becoming school of thought. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.