Final SG Flashcards
Not guilty by reason of mental defect
- inability to discern right from wrong (mentally handicapped or mentally ill)
- inability to conform to the law’s requirement
- irresistible impulse
To what extent are we capable of meaningful change?
Change is difficult and requires a personal choice/courage/action; it is a process, and the mere passing of time does not affect change; with rare exceptions, personality does not change, however, beliefs, behaviors, feelings, and styles of relating can be targeted; change can result from experience
Lumpp: intensive and comprehensive belief of religion
You can’t be casually religious; influences every significant area of your life
Monism
no other component to human being other than physical, there is no ghost in the machine
Dualism
there is something in humans beyond physicality,.
In religion: belief that there is supernatural force for good and evil
Homo religious (Mircea Eliade)
“the idea that human existence is inherently religious… [Inherent religiosity] is not a person’s creedal beliefs or institutional commitments per se but refer to our existential drive toward transcendence, freedom, and meaning-making, no matter the differences of religious or a/religious backgrounds or convictions.”
G.E. Moore and David Hume’s disagreement on beauty
Moore: beauty is in the object being observed
Hume: beauty is not in the object being observed but in the experience of the observer
Criteria for a classic: tests of temporality, universality, and authority
Universality: has to be appreciated trans-culturally
Temporality: has to pass the test of time
Authority: what the experts say, can be right/wrong
What did Augusten Burroughs write about “never giving up on a dream”?
Sometimes you must give up on a dream if you lack the talent, otherwise you’ll be wasting your whole life.
If you can let go of the dream, you probably should.
You are the only person who can judge whether or not you have the skill
King Gimp, Dan Keplinger
Severe case of cerebral palsy, makes a living as a painter despite constantly shaking, attaches paint brush to his head to make impressionist art work, never gave up on his dream
What does it mean for human beings to be referred to as a homo sapiens?
Intelligence Defined: “the ability to acquire and understand information and utilize it in problem solving”
Justice: distributive, compensatory and retributive
Distributive - a fair sharing of benefit and burden
Compensatory - being compensated for something that has happened to you
Retributive - fair punishment for a crime or other wrongdoing
How does equal differ from equitable?
Equality: everyone is given the same resources and opportunities; equity: allocating exact resources and opportunities to different people on dependent circumstances to reach an equal outcome
Collectively, what are prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice?
The four cardinal virtues
What did Sigmund Freud mean by referring to a joke as a controlled parapraxis?
Something you want to say but can’t because it is offensive/wrong/etc, so you say it in a joke
Five afterlife possibilities:
Annihilation: we have no existence at the end of our life
Transmigration of the soul (disembodied) / reincarnation (bodied)
Judgment: heaven, hell or purgatory
Universalism: everybody goes to heaven, god doesn’t give up on anybody
Illusion: we don’t die, it just seems like we die
Thanatology
Subcategory of psychology that deals with death, dying and bereavement
