“on first priority
in design consideration
is the full realization
of individual potential
in order to reach the second derivative — full realization for all individuals”
No More Secondhand God (1963)
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Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.
Don Soderquist “ Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference https://books.google.com/books?id=s0q7mZf9oDkC&lpg=pg=PP1&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 120.
On Putting Your Values First
“Transhumanism empowers people to realize the full human potential.”
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Context: Americans are so individualistic, they do not realize their individualism is a communally derived value. The American I is deconstructed for me by Paolo, an architect who was raised in Bologna: "You Americans are not truly individualistic, you merely are lonely. In order to be individualistic, one must have a strong sense of oneself within a group." (The "we" is a precondition for saying "I.") Americans spend all their lives looking for a community: a chatroom, a church, a support group, a fetish magazine, a book club, a class action suit... illusions become real when we think they are real and act accordingly. Because Americans thought themselves free of plural pronouns, they began to act as free agents, thus to recreate history. Individuals drifted away from tribe or color or 'hood or hometown or card of explanation, where everyone knew who they were... Americans thus extended the American community by acting so individualistically, so anonymously.
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 20)
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Source: 1970s-1980s, The Limits Of Organization (1974), Chapter 1, Rationality: Individual And Social, p. 16
" The Skeptic as a Critic http://books.google.com/books?id=DlMeAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+full+potentialities+of+human+fury+cannot+be+reached+until+a+friend+of+both+parties+tactfully+intervenes%22&pg=PA218#v=onepage," The Forum ( February 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=JqfPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+full+potentialities+of+human+fury+cannot+be+reached+until+a+friend+of+both+parties+tactfully+intervenes%22&pg=PA65#v=onepage)