PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Authoritarianism, Scholasticism
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Life themes: adaptation- darwin theme, how do we adapt to survive, experience- experience related to the self. Adaptation is about self preservation and experiences has to do with the search for meaning. Self preservation sets up the issue of action, adapting to your world and engaging in action. Reaction, you didn"t plan it and didn"t have to think about it. Action is sequential plans structured layed out, while reaction you didn"t plan, didn"t think, it is based on memories and past experiences. Whats real guides your actions, practical decisions that are terminating. Whats true is an exhausted search, you are always adding more and more information and it never comes to a real end. Private- we have border and boundaries around us. Public- things that the outside world know about you. When we express our feelings it becomes public. You experience stuff inside but are you expressing it. Inside one bodyaffected by the outside worldyet shaped by a personalexistence.
