helped develop her theories of emotions. The organic model‚ which comes from Darwin‚ Fraud‚ and James‚ implies that the emotions of individuals are embedded within their biological or psychological makeup. Darwin argues that that emotional action is the result of previous humankind experience. This means that many gestures of emotions are essentially universal. Fraud takes a different approach and connects emotions to instinct‚ such as eros and thanatos (love and death). When we are unable to satisfy
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meek o Let the strong rise to the top of the heap Slave vs. Master Morality • Under threat/fear‚ it force. It forces men men to value Humility not Pride‚ Equality not Individualism‚ Timidity not Aggression‚ and Others not Yourself Primal Will to Power: Instinct to Survive Second will: Child’s Will: Ability to say YES Third Will: Will to Power Turning Good into
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The Functional Approach The aim of functionalism is to explain ritual behaviour in terms of individual needs and social equilibrium. Ritual is thus viewed as an adaptive and adjustive response to the social and physical environment. Many leading authorities on religion and ritual have taken this approach as the most adequate way to explain rituals. Bronisław Malinowski‚ A.R. Radcliffe-Brown‚ E.E. Evans-Pritchard‚ Clyde Kluckhohn‚ Talcott Parsons‚ and Edmund Leach‚ all English or American anthropologists
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which also played a vital role in his thought system. He identified society with a biological organism. (Agarwal) One of the main reasons that Herbert Spencer was important to sociology was because of his views and ideas about evolution. Charles Darwin is always given credit for the idea of survival of the fittest‚ but most likely it was Spencer who coined this phrase. This phrase was almost always used to explain part of science‚ but in Spencer ’s work it took on some political meaning as well
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being the instinct to follow the rules‚ act in a peaceful manner and comply to moral commands compared to the instinct to act violently in order to gain control over others and to satisfy our own greed and personal desires. The conflict exists within the novel in several forms; law and order vs. anarchy‚ civilization vs. savagery and the basic term of good vs. evil. Golding uses these themes consistently throughout the novel‚ clearly associating instinctive savagery with evil and the instinct of civilisation
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Math Darwin‚ again‚ is very famous‚ or infamous‚ for his studies on finches. First he noted on the differences on the sizes of the birds. Their size accounts for certain elements that occur in nature. For instance‚ concerning islands (and how effective of an example they are) they have different habitats to live in. Certain islands have bigger predators‚ others have smaller or no predators at all. In island 1 the finch lives with the more predators‚ and therefore could grow larger than the predators
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Shakespeare. The ’good and just’ deeds done dies with the people who accomplished it. Nothing is inherently good. Scientists theorize that humans evolved from apes‚ invalid and untrue. Human’s instincts remain‚ and they will never be bred out. Every year‚ month‚ week‚ day‚ hour‚ minute‚ and second the instincts that drive us cause our loved ones to die in battle‚ in torture‚ and in pain. Greed‚ lust‚ and rage fuels the world’s wars that destroys humanity one blow at a time. Want of Kuwait’s oil and
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Are Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God convincing? Do they have any value? Needless to say‚ Aquinas upset many of the popular theological ideas prevalent before him. Even though his work was unfinished at the time of his death‚ his ideas were brought into the theology of the church‚ giving Christianity a genuine intellectual and rational foundation. Aquinas’ work influenced the philosophical climate of the day and gave reason a legitimate place in Christian theology. One of Thomas’s
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from Chapter 4 describes the beginnings of Roger’s cruelty to the littluns‚ an important early step in the group’s decline into savagery. At this point in the novel‚ the boys are still building their civilization‚ and the civilized instinct still dominates the savage instinct. The cracks are beginning to show‚ however‚ particularly in the willingness of some of the older boys to use physical force and violence to give themselves a sense of superiority over the smaller boys. This quotation shows us the
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Lecture 6: Motivation Reading: Weiten CH 10 Immediate Sources of Motivation: What drives the tasks we attempt on a day to day basis? (IMMEDIATE) SO: what elicits behaviour? Automatic behaviour = reflexes and instincts Learnt behaviour = classical conditioning ( conditioned stimuli) & instrumental learning ( discriminative stimuli) Stimulus Control - Habit Learning Motivation = Why individuals initiate choose or persist in specific actions in specific circumstance
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