{"id":13421,"date":"2021-05-20T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherpeet.ca\/?page_id=13421"},"modified":"2021-08-05T02:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T02:15:29","slug":"tradition-as-constitutive-dispossessive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christopherpeet.ca\/tradition-as-constitutive-dispossessive\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition as &#8216;Constitutive-Dispossessive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On tradition as &#8216;constitutive-dispossessive&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To appeal to tradition as constitutive of psychology\u2019s subject matter challenges in a fundamental way the discipline\u2019s self-understanding. A key implication of this challenge is that the criteria for evaluation of psychological knowledge claims shift from epistemology to philosophical anthropology. I explore some aspects attendant on such a shift in criteria, in particular those affecting the individualistic ideology that disciplinary psychology and its epistemological self-understanding continue to uphold. To understand the person as constituted through tradition is radically dispossessive of individuality. This paper articulates and defends the claim that only through such a dispossessive effort can a human science theory like psychology affirm the reality and significance of relationality, and restore the possibility of a language of qualitative evaluation in which to cast our moral, ethical, and spiritual aspirations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ReferencePeet, C. (2007). On tradition as &#8216;constitutive-dispossessive&#8217;. Paper presented at the <em>CPA Annual Conference<\/em>, held in Ottawa, Ontario, June 7-9, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherpeet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Peet-CPA-2007.doc.pdf\"><strong>View and read the full paper presentation here<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherpeet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Peet-CPA-2007.doc.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download><strong>Download the full paper presentation here<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On tradition as &#8216;constitutive-dispossessive&#8217; To appeal to tradition as constitutive of psychology\u2019s subject matter challenges in a fundamental way the discipline\u2019s self-understanding. A key implication of this challenge is that the criteria for evaluation of psychological knowledge claims shift from epistemology to philosophical anthropology. 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