Journal: Conservative Theological Journal
Volume: CTJ 04:11 (Apr 2000)
Article: A.H. Maslow And Self-Actualization A Critical Examination of Secular Theories and Theorists
Author: Joshua Didlake

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A.H. Maslow And Self-Actualization
A Critical Examination of Secular Theories and Theorists

Joshua Didlake

Latin Instructor
Tyndale Biblical Institute

Preface

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools (Rom. 1:21–22).

When one examines the annals of time and its thrust upon the forces that have helped to shape and mold today’s world, we often neglect to recognize those who have caused a great amount of destructive influence. Ironically, these men are often portrayed as heroes who lived to further the cause of human achievement, and who devoted their lives to giving us reasons behind why humanity is the way it is. Sadly, that which is presented as scientific is often nothing more than the absolute abdication of God in every area of human reasoning. The idea of God is seen as a primitive membrane that has attached itself to humanity as a whole because of fear and unsound reasoning.

It was this belief, which lead Abraham Maslow to pursue a life of contentment and peace apart from the only One who can provide man with true contentment and peace. Maslow hated God. He believed that science was the only window of truth and that by working in conjunction with the forces of nature, one was bound to unlock the ideas that would lead to a perfect humanist utopia. As we will discover though, presuppositional errors will only lead to a cracked foundation, which has no eternal hope of succeeding. Even the great atheistic philosopher Freidrick Neitzsche recognized this foundational flaw when he declared:

How could anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? Or the will to truth out of the will to deception? Or selfless deeds out of selfishness? the pure and sunlike gaze of the sage out of lust? Such origins are impossible, whoever dreams of them is a fool, indeed worse; the things of the highest value must have another, peculiar origin - they cannot be derived from this transitory, seductive, deceptive, paltry world, from this

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turmoil of delusion and lust. Rather from the lap of Being, the in transitory, the hidden god, the thing-in-itself - their must be their basis, and nowhere else.1

Man hates God. The life of Abraham Maslow, and nearly every other humanistic philosopher in history, proves this hatred beyond a shadow of a doubt. Intrinsically, Maslow might be considered one of the saner persons in his field becaus...

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