Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

• language
• culture
• scripts
• nature vs nurture
• society
• early childhood development
• narrative
• consciousness
• conscious development
• tradition

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.  What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment - he has made out of himself.  In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints.  Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

• fate
• free will
• nature vs nurture
• self
• environment
• other