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Schultz points out that the psychological theories formulated around personality have no common grounds to answer questions about freedom or predestination, heredity or environment, past or present, individuality and uniqueness or universality, balance or growth, and optimism or pessimism?
Another basic point to study is the relationship between theoretical vision -and actual oefiavior:In additionto au-mis;wehav,rto-consideftne-ronow= mg: To formulate an Islamic vision about the characteristics of human nature and personality as a modem (Western) psychological concept, we have to clarify the Islamic attitude about three major dimensions with their ramifications: the creation of man, the life of man, and the destiny of man (in the hereafter).
78 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 15:4 The following are some of the basic issues I want to use in comparing the modem psychological attitudes about the characteristics of human nature and personality with the Islamic attitude, based on the Holy Qur'an and the Hadith texts.
Despite Achoui: Human Nature from a Comparative Psychological Perspective 81 their different theoretical starting points, the two schools, the analytical and the behavioral, do not believe in man's freedom.
This is no place to review all criticism of Freud, but we may point out that Adler, for instance, has a more balanced view, as he holds that the formation of personality is Achoui: Human Nature from a Comparative Psychological Perspective 85 a result of the past and the present of the individual.