PSYC18H3 Lecture : Chapter 9.docx
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Robert louis stevensons (1886: he created a story that says that human beings are mixtures of good and evil. For many theorists, there are two fundamental dimensions to human social life that provide two coordinates. Freud saw life in terms of sexuality and death, humankind"s creative and destructive tendencies. More recently theorists speak of cooperation, affiliation, and prosocial behavior on the one hand, and competition, dominance, and antisocial behavior on the other. The two aspects have been found in studies of child development = love and control anthropology = intimacy and superordination-subordination semantic analyses = evaluation (goodness) and potency. What sets primates, especially from humans, apart from other species is the capacity for kindness. Tibetan buddhism, minks practice the cultivation of compassion. At the same time, in the history of western thought anger, aggression, and revenge have been seen as unavoidable aspects of human character. Stoics saw anger as the most essential to master.
