People are somewhat similar to computers – garbage in – garbage out! No scoial consciousness means – “no social consciousness”
Types of pro-social norms-stereotypes
1. Kenneth Gergen: “relations precede and are more fundamental than self”
2. Christian Community The ideal of the prophets is a community, society, or state of god like men and women living in love and truth together (rev stibitz)
3. Celtic Anam Cara – Soul Friend – Irish poet theologian John O’Donohue – in Celtic tradition, “the soul shines all around the body like a luminous cloud [creating] a deeply felt bond with another person” [or] “soul friend.”
4. Confucianism: “there can be no me in isolation,.I am the totality of roles in relations'””
5. Indian Dharma: In Rig Veda,,….. The hierarchy and stratification of society is thus written into the blueprint of the universe
6. Filipino Kapwa-Loob: K Lagdameo-Santillan, “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others”
7. Ubuntu (African bantu) “I am a person through other people
8. Buddhist INTERBEING: Thich Nhat Hanh “all phenomena are interdependent…endlessly interwoven.” .
K Lagdameo-Santillan: “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. Why? Because implied in such inclusiveness is the moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings.” “According to Professor Enriquez, Kapwa is the “unity of the one-of-us-and-the-other”……. He maintained that “Kapwa implied moral and normative aspects that obliged a person to treat one another as fellow human being and therefore as equal.”…….. But he also foresaw that this Filipino core value was threatened by spreading Western influences.
David Hay “As a result of the cultural construction of an extreme individualism which is particularly evident in the Western world, there has been a `forgetting’ of relational consciousness/spirituality resulting in damaging effects to the texture of human community.”