PSY 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Hermeneutics, Teleology
1 Sep 2016
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Abnormal psych lecture #1 8/31/2016: 3 ways of knowing, explanation, fear of death- prediction and control, existential, fear of meaninglessness, relational, an unexplainable knowing of being connected to someone, fear of loneliness, explanation, rationalism- descartes, kant. Abstract to concrete (shape, color, and gravity) its a concept that cant experience its an idea: empiricism- john, locke. Experience leads to knowledge: existentialism - frankl. I. e. concentration camps- they take control of when they died, not because they didn"t fear death but because they feared not knowing when they would die: social con-structuralism- gergen. Certain truth for certain people, you can"t go telling others your truth: hermeneutics- heidegger. Elephant example; 3 blind men each touch the elephant one at the tail another at the trunk and another at the leg each say it is something else; trunk=snake, tail=rope, While all of these could be true the parts all make up an elephant: relationalism- buber. I-thou will and grace, the only goal is closeness.
