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self-transcendence

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self-transcendence,
the ability to focus attention on doing something for the sake of others, as opposed to self-actualization, in which doing something for oneself is an end goal. See also altruism .


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For this reason, the Church is convinced that no adequate assessment of the nature of the human person or the requirements for human fulfillment and pyschosocial well-being can be made without respect for man's spiritual dimension and capacity for self-transcendence.
Thus, we clarify the distinction between self-actualization and self-transcendence.
Walden's myth-making always teeters on the verge of ironic self-transcendence, with a hero who .
 
 
 
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