Chapter 3 - Developing the Whole Person Flashcards
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- concept that individuals are complex beings who are heavily influenced by a variety of internal factors, both in and outside
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Whole Person
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- is a whole person emphasizing the complete aspects of a person or his totality
- to perceive a person as a whole organism
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Holistic Development
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2 Philosophical Theories:
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- Dualism
2. Holism
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- concept that emphasizes the totality of a person
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Holism
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- the philosophical view that mind and body are fundamentally distinct kinds of substances or natures
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Mind and Body Dualism
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- one of the modern philosophers of our time, influenced much of mankind’s thinking with his theory of duality
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Rene Descartes
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- understanding the nature of things in a simple, dual mode
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Theory of Duality
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- separation of body and spirit
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Western religion
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- separation of the mind and body
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Study of human sciences
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- a concept of dualism describing how obviously opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another
- each of the two elements are in a balanced state, coexist with each other, and can change or transmute into each other
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Yin-Yang Symbol
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- duality is one that regards as rigidly the negation of the other, like black or white, good or bad, life or death, and mind and body
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Western philosophy’s early understanding
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- In 1926, he wrote about holism in his book Holism and Evolution
- a South-African statesman, military leader, and philosopher
- Holism as “the tendency in nature to form wholes which are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution.” (Holism, 2018)
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General Jan C. Smuts
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- Earlier in 1890, a German philosopher and psychologist ___ and later on supported by psychologists ___, ___, and ___ of the Berlin School, introduced the concept of Gestalt.
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- Christian von Ehrehfels
2. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, & Wolfgang Kohler
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- something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts; broadly, the general quality or character of something
- German word that means whole
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Gestalt
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- following a certain set of rules
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Religious
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- does not mean you believe in a God, it can be nature
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Spiritual
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Various Aspects of Holistic Development of Persons: (5)
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- physiological
- cognitive
- psychological
- social
- spiritual
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- refers to the physical body and how this affects the other aspects of a person
- the physical attributes including the 5 senses
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Physiological
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- refers to the thinking process of a person
- the intellectual functions of the mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning, analyzing, projecting, synthesizing, recalling, and assessing
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Cognitive