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Jung believed that a limitless number of archetypes may exist, but argued that there are four major examples. Persona, Shadow, Anima/Animus, Self

...includes innate memories from our ancestral past, images and thoughts that form a human psyche based on our evolutionary origins. Jung named these archetypes.

Implanted man made diamonds may be able to bridge missing or damaged neural connections due to the diamond's superconducting properties, allowing the electrical nerve impulse to be carried forward where the neural pathway has been broken.

the selfish gene.

Introspection: examining your own mental processes.

So far, I'm really loving this book. It's the first time that I actually understand and determine "cool/warm" tones. The things to consider are very, very easy to remember and learn.

Sorry but Jared is an annoying, immature, impulsive, selfish, asshole. 😡

Why does man need a code of values?

Morality is not a contest of whims.

"The point of a good cookbook is to make you curious, fascinated, and to want to start cooking immediately."

There is no necessary relationship between what people say about morality and the way they act. People who express great disapproval of stealing and cheating may actually steal and cheat as much as everyone else

What is a morally mature person?

PSYCHOLOGY: The systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes.

GOALS: Describe, Explain, Predict, Control

APPROACHES: Biological, Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, Cross-cultural, Evolutionary

"Without a sense of identity, people could not retain their sanity, and this threat provides a powerful motivation to do almost anything to acquire a sense of identity. Neurotics try to attach themselves to powerful people or to social or political institutions."

Chapter 7: Humanistic Psychoanalysis
"But people can respect others only if they have knowledge of the. To know others means to see them from their own point of view."

According to this hypothesis, Descartes was a pure naturalist caught in a social situation where nonconformity meant persecution and even death.

Cogito, ergo sum
I think, therefore I am.

I resolved to seek no other knowledge than that which I might find within myself, or perhaps in the great book of nature.

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the
shoulders of giants.”

"Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written."

The power of the individual to change things for the better rather than simply accepting the world as it was.

The power of the individual to change things for the better rather than simply accepting the world as it was.