Eduard Spranger was a German

Germany

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 philosopher and psychologist

Psychologist

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A student of Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of...

, Spranger was born in Berlin

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 and died in Tübingen

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Spranger's contribution to personality theory, in his book Types of Men (Lebensformen; Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 1914; translation by P. J. W. Pigors; New York: G. E. Stechert Company, 1928) were his value attitudes.http://www.hfr.org.uk/figures/spranger.htm

• The Theoretical, whose dominant interest is the discovery of truth
• The Economic, who is interested in what is useful
• The Aesthetic, whose highest value is form and harmony
• The Social, whose highest value is love of people
• The Political, whose interest is primarily in power
• The Religious, whose highest value is unity

Those six in more detail are:

Theoretical: A passion to discover, systemize and analyze; a search for knowledge.
Utilitarian: A passion to gain a return on all investments involving time, money and resources.
Aesthetic: A passion to experience impressions of the world and achieve form and harmony in life; self-actualization.
Social: A passion to invest myself, my time, and my resources into helping others achieve their potential.
Individualistic: A passion to achieve position and to use that position to affect and influence others.
Traditional: A passion to seek out and pursue the highest meaning in life, in the divine or the ideal, and achieve a system for living. This instrument is sometimes offered along with the DISC assessment

DISC assessment

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