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The history of humanity is the history of the human quest for the understanding of reality. While the quest continues, the reality remains ungrasped. This is so because we are contextual beings. We grasp reality from within our existential contexts. Hence, what we have is our interpretation, and we act in accord with the reality that we have come to embrace. With the hermeneutical process leading to the formation of personality, the actuality of reality is constantly being reinterpreted through human behavior.
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Sorajjakool, S. Theories of Personality: Interpretations of Reality and the Formation of Personality. Pastoral Psychology 48, 143–158 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022046811192
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