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May Flashcards

1
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The founder of modern existentialism

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Soren Kierkegaard

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2
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Meaning of existence takes precedence over essence

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process and growth are important than product and stagnation

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3
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To emerge or to become; suggests process; associated with growth and change

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existence

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4
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Static immutable substance; signifies stagnation and finality

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essence

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5
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Basic unity of a person and their environment; being-in-the-world

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Dasein

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6
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The illness of our time; separation from nature

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Alienation

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7
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World of objects and things and would exist even if people had no awareness

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Umwelt

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8
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Includes biological drives such as hunger, sleep and natural phenomena (birth and death)

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Umwelt

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9
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Our world and relations with other people

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Mitwelt

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10
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Relationship with oneself or awareness of oneself as human being

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Eigenwelt

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11
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Ilustrated his notion of existentialism through this study

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the case of philip

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12
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Subjective state of the individuals becoming aware that his/her existence can be destroyed and that he could become nothing

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Anxiety

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13
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Also called the dizziness of freedom

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anxiety

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Anxiety: is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be handled on a conscious level

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normal anxiety

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Anxiety: disprportionate to the threat and that leads to repression and defensive behaviors

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neurotic anxiety

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16
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Arises whenever people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of others, or remain blind to their dependence on the natural world

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guilt

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17
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ontological means…

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refer to the nature of being and not feelings of specific situations

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18
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Alienation or blinded sa advancement sa society esp technology na maseparate sa nature

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Unwelt ontological guilt

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19
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Same with Fromm’s concept of human dilemma

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separation guilt

20
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Inability to perceive accurately the world of others

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Mitwelt ontological guilt

21
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Denial of our own potentialities or with failure to fulfill them; same with Maslow’s Jonah complex

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Eigenwelt ontological guilt

22
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The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future

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Intentionality

23
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Overcome the dichotomy between subject and object

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Intentionality

24
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Coexist with intentionality (inseparable factor)

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action impulses

25
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Is an active process that suggests that things matter; opposite of apathy

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care

26
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Source of love and will

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care

27
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Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of that person’s value and development as much as one’s own

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Love

28
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Capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place; different with wish

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will

29
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A vague sense of mental or moral ill-being

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malaise

30
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Forms of love

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eros, sex, philia and agape

31
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Biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension

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Sex

32
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Psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one

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Eros

33
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Intimate non-sexual friendship between 2 people

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Philia

34
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Altruistic love and spiritual love; unconditional love

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Agape

35
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When we recognize that death is a possibility at any moment and when we are willing to experience changes, even in the face of not knowing what those changes will bring

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Freedom

36
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Forms of freedom

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Existential and essential freedom

37
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Freedom of action or doing

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Existential freedom

38
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Freedom of being

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Essential freedom

39
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The design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us

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Destiny

40
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Freedom and ____ are intertwined; one cannot exist without the other

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destiny

41
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Conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems; akin to Jung’s collective unconscious

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Myths

42
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The chief existential disorders of our time

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Apathy and emptiness

43
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The goal of May’s therapy

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To set people free, to allow them to make choices and to assume responsibility for those choices

44
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People distance themselves from animals because animals remind them of their own physical bodies and death

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Terror management theory

45
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Awareness of mortality causes us to reprioritize our goals in life

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Awakening experience/reality check

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