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Eduard Spranger
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<h2 id="thought">Thought</h2> <p>Spranger evaluated personalities in terms of six ideals or value orientations; theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political and religious "types" of personality traits.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Spranger contributed to the pedagogy of personality theory, in his book <i>Types of Men</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> His <i>value attitudes</i> were: </p> <ul><li><i>The Theoretical</i>, whose dominant interest is the <i>discovery of truth</i></li> <li><i>The Economic</i>, who is interested in <i>what is useful</i></li> <li><i>The Aesthetic</i>, whose highest value is <i>form and harmony</i></li> <li><i>The Social</i>, whose highest value is <i>love of people</i></li> <li><i>The Political</i>, whose interest is primarily in <i>power</i></li> <li><i>The Religious</i>, whose highest value is <i>unity</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul> <p>Those six in more detail are: </p><p><i>Theoretical</i>: A passion to discover, systemize and analyze; a search for knowledge. </p><p><i>Utilitarian</i>: A passion to gain a return on all investments involving time, money and resources. </p><p><i>Aesthetic</i>: A passion to experience impressions of the world and achieve form and harmony in life; self-actualization. </p><p><i>Social</i>: A passion to invest myself, my time, and my resources into helping others achieve their potential. </p><p><i>Individualistic</i>: A passion to achieve position and to use that position to affect and influence others. </p><p><i>Traditional</i>: A passion to seek out and pursue the highest meaning in life, in the divine or the ideal, and achieve a system for living. This instrument is sometimes offered along with the <a href="/facts/DISC_assessment/bA13T0FR">DISC assessment</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://purl.org/pressemappe20/folder/pe/016886">Newspaper clippings about Eduard Spranger</a> in the <a href="/facts/20th_Century_Press_Archives/cAE4hLqn">20th Century Press Archives</a> of the <a href="/facts/German_National_Library_of_Economics/7NL3fA8t">ZBW</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Charle, Christophe; Schriewer, Jürgen (2004). Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities. Frankfort/New York: Campus Verlag. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Gier, Nicholas F. (1981). Wittgenstein and phenomenology : a comparative study of the later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-87395-518-8. OCLC 7006781. <a href="0-87395-518-8" target="_blank">0-87395-518-8</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Gier, Nicholas F. (1981). Wittgenstein and phenomenology : a comparative study of the later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-87395-518-8. OCLC 7006781. <a href="0-87395-518-8" target="_blank">0-87395-518-8</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Gier, Nicholas F. (1981). Wittgenstein and phenomenology : a comparative study of the later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-87395-518-8. OCLC 7006781. <a href="0-87395-518-8" target="_blank">0-87395-518-8</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Gaus, Gerald F. (1990). Value and Justification: The Foundations of Liberal Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39733-9. <a href="978-0-521-39733-9" target="_blank">978-0-521-39733-9</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Spranger, Eduard (1914). Types of Men. Translated by Pigors, P.J.W. New York: G. E. Stechert Company. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Figure: Spranger's dimensions of value". Hfr.org.uk. Retrieved 29 August 2018. <a href="http://www.hfr.org.uk/figures/spranger.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hfr.org.uk/figures/spranger.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Jumbovision Premiere Mobile LED Screens & LED Video Walls is under construction" (PDF). Brianroat.com. Retrieved 29 August 2018. <a href="http://www.brianroat.com/Advisors_Study-w-Exhibits.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.brianroat.com/Advisors_Study-w-Exhibits.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>