ndeavor, say in contrast to Humanistic Psychology of the 1950s, which shares
many of its premises with one major exception – mainstream, cumulative, and
replicable scientific method? The city of Florence in the fifteenth century offers a
clue. When nations are at war, in famine, poor, and in civil turmoil, it is quite
natural that the endeavors they support will be about defense and damage. When
nations are (relatively) peaceful, sated, wealthy, and harmonious, they ask, not
just about removing the disabling conditions of life, but about creating the
enabling and ennobling conditions of life.