PY 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Humanistic Psychology, Existential Therapy, Jean-Paul Sartre
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Private and general will: to live harmoniously with other people the private. Superman: success makes you superman; can rise above conventional. Relative nature of good and evil: balance between civilized and barbarous. Behavior motivation: life is constant suffering but can be mediated through. Social contract: rousseau s solution to an ideal world; chains are. Rosseau government, religion, and science; ideal world is uncontaminated noble savages must be inhibited and subsumed by the general will. The general will exists over all private will. Nietzsche mortality; free to express irrational instincts impulses. Schopehauer intellect, art, or love (cid:862)man can do as he wills(cid:863): the will to survive arises in individual organisms as a manifestation of the universal will and organisms survive by satisfying their needs. Aesthetic: hedonism and amortality leads to boredom and despair. Ethical stages: decisions based on rules from religion or sociery. Religious stages: realize freedom to choose; relationship with god requires.
