D. tell us that competition is, "The action of endeavouring to gain what another endeavours to gain at the same time." It is "the striving of two or more for the same object; rivalry." As used in the field of commerce, the term refers to, "Rivalry in the market, striving for custom between those who have the same commodities to dispose of." In another use, it is, "A contest for the acquisition of [...] All striving is "with another" insofar as it involves the overcoming of obstacles in the pursuit of a goal; but competition is ordinarily understood as activity in which a certain kind of obstacle is to be overcome, a deter- minate "other." In light of the lexical association of competition with rivalry, that "other" would appear to be another striver, or a group of strivers. [...] The inferiority complex leads to a desire for escape, and this desire for escape is expressed in a superiority complex, which is nothing more than a goal on the useless and vain side of life offering the satisfaction of false success." "Social adjustment is the obverse face of the problem of inferiority. [...] Social interest and social co-operation are therefore the salvation of the individual."47 In Freudian theory, human beings are seen as striving, and hence competing, largely unconsciously, for a goal that is given to us by nature: "[W]hat decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleas- ure principle." The pessimistic tone of Freud's theory is based largely on his view that the pr [...] Moreover, she and her colleagues feel that "the most basic conclusion which comes out of this research" is that "competitive and cooperative behavior on the part of individual members of a society is fundamentally conditioned by the total social emphasis of that society, that the goals for which individuals will work are culturally determined and are not the response of the organism to an external
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Chapter One: Understanding Competition 10
- The Definition of Competition: Lexical 11
- The Definition of Competition: Theoretical 14
- Chapter Two: Evaluating Competition 49
- Disadvantages of Competition 50
- Advantages of Competition 54
- Religion and Competition 57
- Chapter Three: Interdenominational Competition 62
- Classic Examples 64
- Recent Examples 91
- Chapter Four: Regulating Interdenominational Competition 110
- The Spinoza Model 113
- Ecumenist Models 127
- Lessing's Version of the "Three Rings" Parable 139
- The Relevance of Economic Models 149
- Chapter Five: Intradenominational Competition 156
- Examples 157
- The Origin of Sects 175
- Regulating Intradenominational Competition 183
- Apostasy and Competition 190
- Chapter Six: Religious Competition Broadly Conceived 201
- The Struggle Against Secularism 201
- Anti-denominationalism 207
- Divine Competition and Its Existential Counterpart 211
- Concluding Evaluations 216
- Notes 226
- Index 240
- A 240
- B 240
- C 240
- D 241
- E 242
- F 242
- G 242
- H 242
- I 243
- J 243
- K 243
- L 243
- M 243
- N 244
- O 244
- P 244
- Q 245
- R 245
- S 245
- T 246
- U 246
- V 246
- W 246
- Z 246