Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bangle, Great Learning, Taoism

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1023E
• Professor: Jonathan Geen

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Secular humanism general label given to any philosophy or worldview that tends to dismiss the notion of god, gods, the divine or the supernatural o. Secular non-religious: humanism a school of thought in which human beings are values in and of themselves, without regard to any higher power. Sigmund freud psychologist who essentially created the psychodynamic school of psychotherapy: the future of an illusion suggests that we believe in god because we want to and because of this religion is an illusion. Abraham maslow psychologist who came up with the hierarchy of needs and humanistic psychology: peak-experience a deep &profound experience that includes truth, goodness, beauty, wholeness, dichotomy-transcendence, aliveness, uniqueness, perfection, necessity, completion, justice, order, simplicity, richness, effortlessness, playfulness or self-sufficiency. Every religion starts with one of these: peakers/non-peakers used to divvy up the general population. Peakers enjoy their peak experiences, non-peakers do not. Makes children believe what adults tell them, children are slavishly gullible.