NEW333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Descriptive Knowledge, Stoicism, World View
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Spirituality: reverence for fundamental framing, love, perspectival knowing | wisdom and compassion --> connects to love, significance of significance finding machinery --> self transcendence --> takes us to. Studied the changes that occurred to an aboriginal community. 1960"s federal government provided better housing for the community, better transportation, etc Very shortly after there was an increase in substance abuse, suicide, depression etc In paying attention to housing they did not pay attention to something being ahome. Arrangement of things that has a personality --> metaphor for symbolism --> system of symbolic entities. Home is a mythos machine --> stories, symbols, souvenirs etc Microcosm of which we can examine all of spirituality. The aboriginal people were using their homes for mythos ie. shape, their placement, how they were organized together etc People from the west with utilitarian concerns and not paying attention to any of the meanings they had --> inflicted meaning crisis.
