PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Nature, Anxiety Disorder
19 Jun 2018
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- Format is a selection of questions that you can choose from
- Kant- progress, what does he mean by it
- Human nature creates situations in which we are forced to create reason, go beyond
nature create things on our own, social conflict
- Focus is discussing and explaining them by making it clear to reader- go behind and
explain reasoning
- Kant- reason
- Open book but no class notes
Freud
- Civilization and its reliance on different factors of human nature
- There is human nature, way we are naturally and there is civilization, not natural because
we have to make it
- If you want to understand civilization, have to understand human nature that caused it
- Necessity, love and aggression are factors of civilization
- Necessity- based on instrumental issues, have to eat, protect ourselves- part more relevant
for civilization is we come together as people to help solve our mutual needs
- Monument to our control over nature, ability to meet our needs at higher level than we
were given
- Freud most interested in love and aggression
- Love and aggression comes hand in hand- sometimes we love and hate the same person,
for Freud one of most important factor to consider, when we hate someone and want to
destroy them we feel bad, and love them so we feel need to protect them and feel bad
about our desire to hurt them
- Ambivalence- double relationship in conflict, loving and hating same person
- Freud started to speculate that aggression is a big part of human life, theories that we can
be nice and love each other is not accurate to Freud- competition for sexual mates, status
in society that hinges on one’s sexual mates, competitive force never quite can be taken
away- aggression is basic to human nature
- Also pointing to fact that aggression is natural part in us, instinct that needs satisfaction-
maybe we have to channel aggressive instincts
- Most basic source of aggression is frustration- frustration of instinct is naturally met with
a kind of hatred, see this right from birth (if take something away from a baby, they get
angry, not just sadness but anger as well)- form of revenge is getting angry at world
- I have this desire to in effect/eradicate that, that does not go along with me
- Certain sense of aggressive instinct, what parent want is to get rid of parent, in heat of
moment desire to destroy- regardless if it is parent or not
- Challenge of civilization is to control our aggressment, aggressment is anti-civilization
- Civilization is opposed to us enjoying satisfaction of our aggression because we can only
be civilized when we do not hate each other
- Where does aggression go, because to the extent of civilization is controlled aggression,
where there is aggression there is not civilization
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Document Summary
Format is a selection of questions that you can choose from. Kant- progress, what does he mean by it. Human nature creates situations in which we are forced to create reason, go beyond nature create things on our own, social conflict. Focus is discussing and explaining them by making it clear to reader- go behind and explain reasoning. Civilization and its reliance on different factors of human nature. There is human nature, way we are naturally and there is civilization, not natural because we have to make it. If you want to understand civilization, have to understand human nature that caused it. Necessity, love and aggression are factors of civilization. Necessity- based on instrumental issues, have to eat, protect ourselves- part more relevant for civilization is we come together as people to help solve our mutual needs. Monument to our control over nature, ability to meet our needs at higher level than we were given.
