Clare W. Graves
THE
NEVER ENDING
Quest
Dr. Clare W. Graves
Explores Human Nature
The Never Ending Quest
A treatise on an emergent cyclical conception of adult behavioral systems and their development
edited and compiled by
Christopher C. Cowan and Natasha Todorovic
ECLET Publishing
Santa Barbara, California
© Copyright 2005 by Christopher Cowan and Natasha Todorovic ECLET Publishing
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Graves, Clare W.
The Never Ending Quest / Clare W. Graves
Christopher Cowan and Natasha Todorovic, editors ISBN 0-9724742-1-8
To the memory of Marian Graves,
to Sue and to Bob,
and to the extended family of students
in the legacy of Dr. Clare W. Graves
CONTENTS
Editors’ Foreword ..........................................................................i Preface ........................................................................................... 1
Section I – What is Human Life All About? .................................. 9
Chapter 1 – The Problem..............................................................11
Chapter 2 – An Approach for Investigating the Problem ............... 33
Chapter 3 – The Basic Data ......................................................... 51
Chapter 4 – Confusion and Contradiction Exacerbated ................. 91
Chapter 5 – New Problem, New Opportunity, New Task .............133
Chapter 6 – The Emergent Cyclical Model...................................159
Section II – The Levels of Existence ..........................................195
Chapter 7 – The Autistic Existence – The AN State .....................199