The Third Factor Nature vs. Nurture

The debate over the relative contributions of inheritance and the environment usually referred to as the nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest issues in both philosophy and psychology.
Philosophers such as Plato and Descartes supported the idea that some ideas are inborn. On the other hand, thinkers such as John Locke argued for the concept of tabula rasa—a belief that the mind is a blank slate at birth, with experience determining our knowledge.
Today, most psychologists believe that it is an interaction between these two forces that causes development.
And then there is the Third Factor, a theory by Kazimierz Dabrowski.
He also refers to it as “self-determination by a number of autonomous dynamisms”. The third factor often referred to as an individual’s ‘inner drive’ or autonomous thinking distinct from first and second factors.
“Third factor is a dynamism of valuation, i.e., of developing consciously an autonomous hierarchy of values. One could say that the third factor decides upon what subject-object in oneself has uncovered, while inner psychic transformation is the process by which the decision is put to work. Third factor is the par excellence dynamism of self-directed development. “

—Kazimierz Dabrowski

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