Abstract
Today, personal biographies are characterized by incoherence. Lack of coherence indicates a discontinuity in values. With contradictory values, one will battle against another, and fight until defeat or victory. Regardless of which values we choose, they have a shadow, unrecognized or neglected aspects that will take over when the values become too extreme or one-sided. According to authoritarian leaders, neutral facts cause no spontaneous change in people, their opposition has to be made negative enough to become alive, seen as the driving force behind fanaticism and public opinion. Instead of the sometimes violent destruction of evaluative values, the transformative role of their descriptive counterparts is highlighted in this paper: transformation of values is possible through the transcendence of pairs of descriptive opposites.
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