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Each individual animal in an on going surviving social community |
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(c) Both a and b are true: (a) has a life style that contributes to its survival (b) has a life style that contributes to the reproduction and possibly long term stability of the animal society by means of social communication |
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Social communication is defined |
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(a) in terms of reciprocal communications between two animals leading to a joint behavior where each component behavior makes sense only in terms of the whole joint behavior |
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Humans are unique among animals in that humans have consciousness which is not present in all other types of animals |
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One accurate description of feelings is that they are emotions associated with subjective orientations or dispositions towards objects |
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Potential as an aspect of energy in the mechanistic perspective is |
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(c) Both a and b are true: (a) The possibility of generating a work event (b) The possibility of generating a heat event |
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(b) The loss of order = chaos |
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In the mechanistic perspective potential, which is one aspect of energy, represents Order in which |
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(c) Both a and b are true: (a) Time is reversible (b) Order is conserved |
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Energy flux of finite human experience implies that |
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(b) Order is not conserved so that every decrease in Order corresponds to an equal increase in Chaos |
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Energy flux of finite human experience and according to the second law of thermodynamics |
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(d) Both a and c are true: (a) sometimes involves only heat (c) sometimes involves heat and work |
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The functioning of the ideal heat machine |
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(b) is a major opposition to the mechanistic perspective |
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The interaction between the energy coupler of a machine and the external energy fluxes can be completely understood by |
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(c) A mutuality of objective quantitative and subjective qualitative descriptions |
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(c) Both a and b are true (a) Represents Order (b) Represents the possibility of producing Chaos |
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Any machine transforms an Order in nature, represented by a potential, into a new Order called machine task |
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(b) The machine task is qualitatively different than the Order in nature |
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Any machine transforms an Order in nature into a new Order called a machine task |
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(a) The machine task implies Order in nature |
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Machine creativity may be represented as |
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(b) Order in nature goes to CHaos that is coupled with the machine creativity of producing a new, higher level of Order than the original Order |
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Understanding the collaboration of a specific machine with an Order in nature to produce a specific machine task |
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(b) Represents a subjective, narrative understanding of the machine |
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(b) Only has power to accomplish a specific task when it collaborates with an appropriate energy flux |
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According to law #3, the mutuality of Chaos and creativity |
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(b) The decrease or disappearance of some potential event representing old Order may simultaneously be coupled to the creation of a new Order |
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According to the hierarchal mutuality of Chaos and creativity, Eros-chaos drives some Order in the universe to chaotic Logos (chaotic system, which retains some Order) |
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(b) Where the Chaos makes potential events available to be expressed that before the Chaos could not be expressed |
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According to the hierarchal mutuality of Chaos and creativity, Eros-order |
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(b) Coordinates the expression of one or more exposed potential events with the remaining Order of the chaotic Logos to produce a new Order |
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Individualism is an acquired degree of uniqueness of an entity |
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(b) That enables it to enter into new types of interactions |
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Things achieve some degree of separateness and autonomy by breaking from one level of order and thus going into one corresponding level of chaos |
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The overall process of individuation involves breaking away from one lower level ordered state to acquire unstable autonomy and then entering into mutual interaction to form a new higher ordered state |
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(b) Creates a new Order that incorporates a modified old Order |
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The double bind of a child at the body self level of consciousness is choosing between |
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(c) Both a and b are true: (a) Bonding to the mother and maintaining body self autonomy (b) Eros-chaos and Eros-order |
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Individuation of the group=ego called action self results in |
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(e) All three a, b and c are true: (a) the body self becoming aware of itself having willfulness (b) the body self becoming aware of being male or female (c) the body self becoming aware of being separate from its mother |
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The participation mystique of the body self is due to |
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Participatory, embedded knowing = anthropomorphic knowing |
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(d) Both a and b are true: (a) Projects aspects of subjective self onto objects of knowing (b) Is non-conceptual, metaphorical knowing |
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Individuation of the body self to the polar self solves the child's impossible project by |
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(b) Mutuality of Eros-chaos and Eros- Order |
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Because individual soul generates Eros-chaos and Eros-order, it may be designated as Will. |
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Because individual soul generates feeling self-consciousness, it may be designated as the feeling center |
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The first phase of individuation of human self-consciousness has the characteristic of |
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(a) Participatory consciousness of isolated episodic events |
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Will is the manifestation of SOURCE that expresses Eros drives that lead to ongoing creative individuation of each human |
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The Feeling Center in union with SOURCE |
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(b) Is a center without a self that generates self-consciousness |
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The emergence of the polar self corresponds to the "Great Awakening" in which a new center of consciousness, the Mind Self, emerges and "sees" itself |
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(b) as different from but in mutual relation with Nature |
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Will associated with self-consciousness manifests some degree of "free will" as indicated by |
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(c) Both a and b are true: (a) The child with a body self who says "no!" (b) The civilized human who chooses to uncouple eros-chaos from Eros-order thus preventing creativity |
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The emergence of the polar self corresponds to the "great Awakening" in which a new center of consciousness, the Mind Self emerges and "sees" itself |
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(b) as different from but in mutual, participatory dialogue with the body self |
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Civilized, patriarchal individuation generates the polarity |
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(b) Individualistic, conceptual consciousness of the ego vs. non-individualistic, participatory consciousness generated by repressed centers in the Individual, Collective Unconscious. |
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When the child beings to become civilized at about 6 or 7 years of age, the objective ego produces |
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(e) All three a, b and c are true: (a) Objective, conceptual, language knowing (b) Concrete, operational thinking (c) Conceptual, mythical thinking |
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According to the modern theory of metaphor, all metaphorical conceptual, language knowing is directly or indirectly |
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(c) A mutuality between objective knowing and subjective knowing |
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Metaphorical conceptual knowing |
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(c) Both a and b are true: (a) Involves intuition associated with subjective, experiential knowing (b) Conceptual knowing |
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Metaphorical, conceptual knowing |
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(a) Represent a higher level of conceptual knowing than elementary, conceptual knowing |
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According to the modern theory of metaphor, literal concepts |
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(a) Are thought of as objective representations of the world as a whole made up of relatively autonomous parts that exist and interact with one another independent of any human knowing them |
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From a traditional natural law point of view the individual creation of a concept as signified by an arbitrary symbol, e.g., a word, |
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(c) Is simultaneously subjective knowing and objective knowing |
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According to the text, metaphorical, conceptual thinking is a more abstract type of thinking than elementary, conceptual thinking |
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According to the text, Persona is a social innovation |
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(c) Both a and b are true |
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The emergence of persona as the core of civilization led to |
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(b) The opposition between individual stability and individual creativity |
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The emergence of persona as the core of civilization led to |
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(b) The opposition between social harmony and social individuation |
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One aspect of the "great Repression" is that while it produces a stabilized ego consciousness, it also tends to prevent further individuation or other types of creativity |
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If one breaks from that "great Repression," i.e., deconstruct personas, he/she |
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(c) Both a and b are true |
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According to the fundamental ambiguity of human individuation |
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(c) Both a and b are true |
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The "death phase" of the transition from early childhood with metaphorical, muthical thinking to late childhood with metaphorical, conceptual thinking is characterized by |
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(b) A break from a mental participatory a "mental participatory mystique" to produce greater alienation from family and friends |
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The "death phase" of the transition from early childhood with metaphorical, mythical thinking to late childhood with metaphorical, conceptual thinking is characterized |
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(a) An increase in "creative and destructive psychic energies" from repressed centers of self-consciousness |
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Cyrus, the first king of the Persian kingdom, developed the Persian empire in which |
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(a) He persuaded many different peoples that he understood them, respected them, and desired their love |
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Darius, the supreme ruler of the Persian empire, by 521 B.C. promoted a dramatic innovation of bringing universal Order to diverse peoples |
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(b) So they could have harmony in exchange for humility, protection for abasement, the blessings of a world order for obedience and submission |
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Homer's Greek epics mark the beginning of humanism in that the heroes in these stories sought individual glory independent of any sense of social obligation |
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A hero in the Greek epics only achieves glory if he wins in battle |
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As was true of the cultures of Asia and Africa, the Greeks of 8th century B.C. considered stories of the invention of god as literally true |
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For the Greeks of 8th century B.C., the metaphorical concept of gods represented unseen Realities the were directly experienced but remained unknown in themselves |
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Homer's epics portraying the heroic ideal emphasized |
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(b) The hero's self-sufficiency |
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Homer's epics symbolized for the aristocracy of Greek society and for later generations all members of society that it is possible for any civilized human to be a hero |
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The possible hero has two natures: 1. Earth nature and 2. Spirit nature. The Earth nature is equal to |
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(b) The inner self which in the epics are symbolized by the olympian gods |
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The possible hero has two nature. The spirit nature is equal to |
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(a) The ego consciousness that defines itself to some degree in terms of socially prescribed social roles |
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The psychological factor that starts and then guides the possible hero to undergo a transformation is |
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Greek mythic, personal meaning is |
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(b) An individual acquiring arete and increasing it over a lifetime |
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The so-called "classical greek enlightenment" is |
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(b) THe ultimate civroty of human intelligence, reason and gentleness against the power of passion and unguided strength |
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The olympic games consisting of competitive sports was a metaphor for |
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The olympic games symbolized the belief that Homer's Olympian gods organized humans' life in the world similar to organizing a game |
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By the 6th Century B.C. Greeks in a non-self-conscious way viewed the world as |
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(b) "Rationally knowable" in the same way as competitive games are knowable |
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In the Pre-Socratic Greek "game of rational discovery" |
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(b) One creates stories using ordinary language that provides experientially understandable answers to abstract questions about nature |
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By means of poetic philosophy the Pre-Socratics were the first to begin to reconnect with direct experience of Reality by viewing Greek epic poetry as |
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(b) as fanciful stories that only symbolized the culture's human attitudes and values |
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The arete exhibited by Pre-Socratic philosophy was associated with a transformation of the mind |
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The arete exhibited by Pre-Socratic philosophers |
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(b) Is exhibited by individual thinkers and by shared explanatory stories |
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The Pre-socratic philosopher is a new kind of hero who |
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(b) Enter a spiritual battle to conquer an aspect of Being by comprehending it with an explanatory story |
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Pribor's modified version of Heidegger's interpretation of Heraclitus's idea of Logos is that it |
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Pribor's modified version of Heidegger's interpretation of Heraclitus's idea of Logos is that it |
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(c)Represents humans putting explanatory stories onto their experience of the ever-changing world |
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Pribor's modified version of Heidegger's interpretation of Heraclitus's idea of Logos is that it |
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(c) Both a and b are true |
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Pre-Socratic arete dictated Green humanism in which one exhibits his humanness to the greatest extent |
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(b) WHen he incorporates into his indicidual consciousness his own understanding of morality that may include some aspects of morality based on Homer's epics |
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The new humanism associated with Pre-Socratic arete drives one |
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(b) To create for himself explanatory stories that explicitly exclude all myths |
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The metaphorical, conceptual arete of the Pre-Socratics generated explanatory stories that were imprecise but never led to contradictory interpretations |
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The Sophists claimed that the explanatory stories based on metaphorical, conceptual thinking are purely a matter of subjective opinion |
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The teaching of the Sophist, Protagoras, that "man is the measure of what exists" is consistent with Parmenides and Heraclitus asserting that civilized Greeks exhibiting arete only interpret manifestations of Being |
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The solution to the problem of the relativism and skepticism of the Sophists was |
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(b) A game of competitive argumentation |
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