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This 3 page paper discusses Rogerian argument—what it is, and how it can be used to help people find common ground, even when their views are diametrically opposed, or even hostile. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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paper discusses how the method works and why it is particularly useful in reducing conflict and in establishing common ground between people with differing viewpoints. Discussion Carl Rogers (1902-1987) did
his most important work at the height of the Cold War, when the world was world was divided into good guys (us) and bad guys (the Reds) (Dziamka, 2007). With
the tense political situation as background, most arguments were what we now call zero-sum games: in order for one person to win the other had to lose. This is a
nonproductive way to view matters, because its very easy to push one side or the other into a calamitous decision if they have no options. Rogers understood that if people
continued to view problems as nothing more than us vs. them, there would never be a way that two sides could reach any sort of psychological understanding, since they would
be committed to the thinking that "I am 100 percent right and you are 100 percent wrong" (Dziamka, 2007). Instead of this intransigence, Rogers argued that it would much more
useful if we could try to see the other persons point of view, to understand how he feels and what his frame of reference is (Dziamka, 2007). This is the
really difficult aspect of Rogerian argument, because most of us have already made up our minds about the issues that matter deeply to us. Because we have adopted our stance
and believe in it strongly, we are unwilling to listen to anyone who takes the other side, often because we are afraid we "might be affected by other points of
view" (Dziamka, 2007). In other words we dont want to listen to anyone else because there is the possibility that they might make sense, and we would have to rethink
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