Chapter 11 TF Flashcards
Existentialism began with the work of A. H. Maslow.
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Rollo May had an unpredictable mother and an older sister who experienced a psychotic breakdown.
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During his lifetime, Kierkegaard’s ideas had little effect on philosophical thought.
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Existentialists advocate a split between subject and object.
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Most existentialists suggest that people be studied from an objective frame of reference.
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The acquisition of freedom should be matched by the acquisition of responsibility.
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Neurotic anxiety, May said, is disproportionate to the threat and involves intrapsychic conflict.
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Ontological guilt associated with Mitwelt arises from our separation from the natural world. Wrong?
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For May, intentionality is always conscious.
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Care is the source of love and will.
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Rollo May believed that love and will should be separate.
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May considered sex to be the salvation of eros.
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May believed that our ultimate destiny was death.
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May suggested that healthy relationships blend all four forms of love.
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Eros is a psychological desire to seek creation through an enduring union with a loved one.
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