PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Anaximander, Thales Group, Scientific Method
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Logos=greek for the study of a subject: nobody has ever had a say in who they are to begin with, you are born a specific race, in a specific place, to certain parents. Anthropormorpism: project human feelings and emotion onto nature; everything contained a spirit or ghost, magic evolved to influence spirits=control over nature. The more control you have over your environment the more likely you are to survive. Dionysic-orphic: soul is a prisoner of the body: this is a common narrative for those who suffer in society, religion was as useless as magic in controlling the natural world. Examples of societal projection of natural blame: thales: water, anaximander: boundless , herclitus: fire. Moism: no distinction between the mind and body. Pythagoras: full-fledged dualism: mind is immortal, the sensation is mortal and should be avoided. Relativity of truth: leads to scientific method, sophists: truth is subjective, socrates: agreed with sophists but also promoted introspection, plato: ideas are independent of subjectivity.
