What makes people the way they are? The Mechanistic perspective sees humans as machines that passively react to internal and external forces over which they have no control.
Why are people the way they are? The Organismic lens sees humans as an integrated wholes, organisms that actively makes choices about how they will react to and control the internal and external forces of their lives, and that have inherent growth potential.
What are people? The Contextualist lens sees humans as the historic events that shape their lives, culmination of how they experience and understand things that happen to them.
Attempting to understand human behavior through a single philosophical lens results in methodological myopia through which researchers dismiss perspectives other than their own. Synthesizing perspectives will provide a more complete picture of the human experience.
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