PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Loving-Kindness, Dalai Lama, Cognitive Therapy
18 Apr 2018
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Eudaimonia: fulfillment is based on contributing to society. Moral virtue: bring your animal instinct, desire (subconscious) to conscious control. Intellectual virtue: wisdom and understanding of how things are. Self awareness and self realization is the root of living a good life. Virtue: between excess and deficiency (not too much, not too little) Early catholic church definition of happy life: living according to god, living for afterlife. (life was poor back then) As economic condition improved, people start to focus on living on happy life at the present. Life is a constant struggle between our desire and moral constraints. Meaningful life is about being able to forming healthy relationship with others (love) Self awareness: bring all the complex(archetype) to self in positive way. Self-actualization is highest motivation, they are few and live in a good life. Eight fold way to self actualization (from buddhism) Viktor: we have the choice to live our lives.
