Themes of Authenticity, Virtue, and Discernment to Living a Personally Significant Life Yolanda Lara Regis University September 7, 2014 I will be discussing on how to living a personally significant life through Authenticity, Virtue and Discernment. Authenticity can mean different thing to different people. The needs of one’s inner being are different, subjective and often culture bound. Some people base their actions on external pressures – the pressure to appear to be a certain kind of person, the pressure to adopt a particular mode of living, the pressures to ignore one’s own moral objective in order to have a more comfortable existence. In reading “The Martyrdom of Perpetua”, she was willing to sacrifice her life for her faith, even if it went against her father wishes.
When it comes to writing a study of another culture, the language used can sometimes highlight whether or not you truly understand the culture being studied. The language of Horace Miner’s Body Ritual among the Nacirema is used, for instance, to satirize the mistakes many anthropologists make when they assume other societies have religious/supernatural aspects in their cultures, regardless of if they do or not. The article that Horace Miner writes himself utilizes the chance to show how much some anthropologists get caught up in assumptions and rely on terms such as “ritual,” “ceremony,” and “magical” to explain practices that they are perhaps unfamiliar with. For example, Miner describes the bathroom as a “ritual” site or medicine as “magic” material. At the end of article, it is even stated that the Nacirema are “magic-ridden” people (Miner, 149), although most Americans are void of many practices involving supernatural and even religious aspects.
He mainly talks about our relationship to the nature and human’s impacts in shaping the nature. The mankind’s knowledge and understanding about nature is influenced from the past. There are few humans who may understand nature on their own way without external influences. Williams also discusses that some human finds their relationship to the God by understanding the nature. He also mentions that mankind has made their relationship complicated with the nature because of the separation that is created between human and the nature.
These influences may be so accepted that the society actually affects the feeling of the individual. In a society with important religious beliefs, a person may not “feel” anger when anger would appear to be a natural response. Those feelings may be become hidden, and the person may instead feel a form of depression. This article can be trusted due to its location on jstor.org. A website dedicated for the purpose of scholarly articles and journal
These biases interrelate and tend to perpetuate someone's depression. He also suggested errors in logic could be a reason for someone to behave abnormally. This concerns the way in which someone sees an event in the past, present or future. Examples of irrational thinking that both Ellis and Beck proposed are catastrophizing (wildly exaggerating the negative aspects of an event), polarized thinking (seeing everything in extreme terms), and overgeneralization (drawing conclusions based on a single event). This approach is supported by Burt et al who asked participants to recall a list of words.
Her initial thoughts were led astray from the harsh reality that the world around her may not always be so safe, but, due to the addition of knowledge she was able to break down her original assumptions. By observing the components and techniques used in both Looking for Alibrandi and Flowers, it can be inferred that assumptions about a person, society or the world in which we live, have the power to manipulate our perspectives. The two texts exemplify the initial assumptions possessed by the protagonists and display techniques that demonstrate their augmentation of knowledge and understanding which enables them to re-examine and change their
The Problems Humans Encountered After They Lost Their Innocence Including extracts from Genesis, Georgics, Metamorphoses, and The Consolation of Philosophy It is natural for people to ask questions about the origins of humankind and the events that led to the current state of society. Thus, many written examples appeared to give answers to those questions. The Holy Bible, Virgil’s Georgics, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses are all vivid illustrations of how life started and what our role was back then. All of these aetiological texts have both similarities and differences, especially on the accounts of Earth’s creation, the following age of innocence or Golden Age, and the progress people made after the “Fall.” The
The case study has been used as a tool for natural and social sciences as well as psychological research. One type of case study is a “psychobiography” which means a researcher utilizes psychological theory to explain the life of an individual, usually an important historical figure. Reasons to Use Case studies can aid as being valuable for informing of conditions that are considered rare or unusual, thus providing unique data about psychological phenomenon like memory, social exchange, or language. Depending on the purpose, a case study may present an individual’s history, symptoms, characteristic behaviors, reactions to situations, or responses to treatment. Case studies are also useful for testing whether scientific theories and models
Color symbolism and color psychology are culturally constructed linkages that vary with time, place and culture. In fact, one color may perform very different symbolic or psychological functions in the same place. For example red is often used in North America to indicate stop, as with a stop sign, or danger, as with a warning light. At the same time, red symbolizes love, as with Valentine's Day. A person not familiar with the cultural coding of red in North America could, theoretically, confuse the symbolism of red and mistake a red Valentine's Day heart for a warning.
The purpose of this text is to provide readers with insight into the human mind and human geographies. Landscapes of Fear also allows us to explore why we, as a collective society, have the fears that we have. This book breaks down these fears, whether inherited or instinctual, based on where we live, how we were raised and our culture. Tuan has applied his geographical mapping skills to the cultural origins of fear. The result is a fascinating