Ch 6 Flashcards
entirely physical
Brute
predominating attitudes, values, and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group of people.
Culture
an area or range of personal distinctness characterized by specific qualities.
Domain
difficult to detect, grasp by the mind, analyze, define, or describe.
Elusive
features or actions pertaining to the body.
Physical
the capacity of our lives that gives our body distinct features and enables us to perform actions with our body.
Physical strengths
possibility formed by the capability of being or becoming.
Potential
structured system of human organization for large-scale community living at the national or multi-national level that furnishes continuity, norms, and a sense of identity for its members.
Society
qualities or features that bring power, force, vigor, or sustenance.
Strengths
Millard warns that physical strengths are commonly, and mistakenly, viewed in the area of ______.
athletics
When this narrow view is taken, people often incorrectly believe that they don’t have any ______ strengths.
physical
What are the eight (8) broad categories that Millard lists for physical strengths in the text:
Brute force, Artistry, Music, Mechanics, Craftsmanship, Oratory, Kinesthetic, and Physical Appearance
What Harvard professor was concerned about the ability of students to learn and wrote the book “The Closing of the American Mind”?
Allan Bloom
What was Bloom’s point in contrasting his “ignorant” grandparents ability to have a clear reason for existence vs. his cousins, who held Ph.D.s and Masters Degrees who spoke in clichés, superficialities, and material of satire?
He believed that their familiarity with the people and themes of the Bible were universal literary themes (meaning across many cultures) about the purpose life and highest morality of life. His grandparents had exposure to these themes, while his cousins chose not to, quoting that “I am not saying anything so trite as that life is fuller when people have myths to live by. I mean rather that a life based upon the Book is closer to the truth, that it provides the material for deeper research in and access to the real nature of things.”
What is the point of Bloom’s quote “As it now stands students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly. But deprived of literary guidance they no longer have the image of a perfect soul and hence do not long to have one. They don’t even imagine there is such a thing.”
He is saying that a life spent on building the perfect/ideal self (looks, style, personality, career, family, etc) is less than what one could have in life if it was spent upon seeking the value of one’s soul. The former depends on the comparative model and approval of others. The latter seeks out God’s calling on our lives and the co-operation with others.
