Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Richard Dawkins, Abraham Maslow, Peak Experience

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

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Academic study of religion: humanism: a belief that human beings on their own can decide how to structure society, what is right and wrong, how to set up laws, and how to treat other people. Humanism believes each person should treat each other well, without god or divine interventio(cid:374) ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g to state that. Hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)is(cid:373) is p(cid:396)oof that la(cid:272)k of (cid:396)eligio(cid:374) does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to lead to destruction: secular humanists always say that non-religious people are equally good people as religious people. Sigmund freud: took the study of the human mind beyond institutionalized patients. There was nobody taking seriously of regular humans, except freud. Freud took the study of our minds, and said his patients was suffering from neurosis, ocd, anxiety. He was the father of psychoanalysis, and all psychodynamic schools of therapy: psychodynamic means that the mind is divided into different boxes, and those boxes are all in communication with each other.