PSY 01230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Viktor Frankl, Human Potential Movement, Eleanor Roosevelt
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Chapter 9: humanistic, existential, and positive aspects of personality. Existentialism- is an area of philosophy concerned with the meaning of human existence: being-in-the-world-the world cannot exist without someone to perceive it and a person cannot exist without there being a world. Moves to becoming, instead of being (self- fulfillment) I-thou dialogue relationship that has each person focus on the uniqueness of the other. I-it monologue others, but doesn"t focus on their uniqueness. Relate to others when fear and self-interest interfere with our fully experience the exquisite reality of another being (israeli, Non-positivists focus on the subjectivity of reality, and as such, it is non-deterministic: this subjectivity makes it useful when studying human nature and personality, the world is a human construction, thus, it changes as people"s perception changes. Phenomenological view- subjective realities are considered to be valid data for study. Jean-paul sartre- emphasized the responsibility for one"s actions.
