PSYC 338 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Middle Ages, Integralism, Misanthropy
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Crisis: stagnation: interpersonal impoverishment, self-indulgence, causes: Lack of some faith, some belief in the species which would make child appear to be welcome trust of community. Social modalities: to make be, to take care of. Virtue: care ritualization: generationalism: transmitting cultural values to next generation ritualism: authoritism, use authority and power for selfish purposes vs. for care and instruction of young. I am what survives of me integrity: acceptance of one"s own and only life cycle and of people who have become significant to it as something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted no substitutes. Acceptance of fact that one"s life is one"s own responsibility. Crisis: despair: fear of death, time = too short to start another life, to try out alternative roads to integrity, disgust: misanthropy is displaced contempt of self. Social modalities: to be through having been, to face not being. Cultural institution: living tradition as the embodiment of wisdom.
