INTRODUCTION Baruch Spinoza was born a Jew in Amsterdam in 1632. His religious opinions caused his expulsion from the synagogue. He became associated with the Christian circle after his expulsion though he did not profess Christianity. His whole life was spent in Holland and Hague. He was always poor and withdrawn and he earned his living by polishing lenses. He was still young when he died in 1677. He was a rationalist, determinist and a pantheist. Spinoza’s philosophy was profoundly influenced
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highlights the importance of the unconscious mind and early childhood. Sigmund Freud, a psychiatrist created this perspective on personality. Freud believed that things hidden in the unconscious mind could be revealed in a number of various ways, including free association, through dreams, and slips of the tongue. Neo-Freudian theorist including Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, Alfred Adler and Karen Horney believed in the importance of the unconscious mind, but disagreed with of concepts of Freud’s theories. Several
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you have (B) you will have (A), without exception. 8. Know how Aristotle viewed happiness. “Man can only achieve happiness by using all his abilities and capabilities.” He said there were 3 forms of happiness, Pleasure and enjoyment, being a free and responsible citizen, and living the life of a thinker and philosopher. p. 126 “Hellenism” – p. 137 9. Know the differences between Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans. Cynics- true happiness not found in external advantages like political power
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Discuss genetic factors involved in aggressive behaviour A way to study the hereditary of aggression is through twin studies. There are two types of twins; monozygotic who are identical and share all the same genes are dizygotic who are non-identical and share only 50% of genes. If there is a 100% concordance rate between monozygotic twins it suggests that share genes may be responsible for aggressive behaviour rather than the environment. Caccaro et al found that there was a 50% variance in aggressive
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Marx & Neo-Marx Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, and Ralph Miliband all had ideas about the superstructure and substructure in a capitalist economy. To start off, what actually is a capitalist economy? A capitalist economy is a free market system, owned privately to control production and profit. The capitalist class owns all relation to production, thus shaping the role of superstructure. Superstructure are the beliefs, educational systems, the state, organization of families
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entitled “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.” Specifically, in Chapter 1 entitled “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire.” The quote begins by explaining that the body is a ‘mere instrument/medium.’ Due to the on going debate of free will vs. determinism (Butler 1990:8) the body seems to merely be a vessel for whatever cultural meaning will soon be placed upon them. Due to the external physical features of a given body, there are immediate binary distinctions formed for the individual based
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Assess the usefulness of interactionist approaches to the study of society- 33 marks Interactionism is an action theory which is based on the micro level, they are bottom-up approaches which focus on the actions of individuals. They emphasise free will as they are more voluntaristic than structural theories. Whereas, structural theories such as functionalism are macro, top down and deterministic. They believe that individuals are puppets who are manipulated by society. There are four important
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Analytical Theory & Individual Theory Amanda Unruh PSY 405 August 6, 2012 When people hear the term “psychology”, most of them probably think of Sigmund Freud, who was the founder of the psychodynamic approach to psychology. The psychodynamic approach is still widely used today to understand relationships between people, the interaction of drives and forces inside a person (especially the unconscious), and distinguish the different structures of the human personality. Karen Horney developed
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Student: Instructor: Class: Date: Do we have Free Will? Yes. The issue of whether we have a free will or not is disputable. For the purpose of this study, I will look into what others have said about this topic. First, I will consider the opinions of three writers who have written contrary to my opinion supporting their argument with the reasons they have given. Secondly, I will analyze the opinions of those writers who believe that we have free will. This will of course be followed by supportive
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Some Moral Minima By Jeremy Worrall Intro to Ethics & Social Responsibility Ashford University Instructor Tiffany Davis Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory, centering on the production of a good, happiness. Most of its problems center on the use of a nonmoral good, happiness, to dominate moral deliberation. Many philosophers who reject consequential moral theories believe that moral requirements are often valid whether or not they produce more nonmoral good. They propose a deontological
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