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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 7 learn and how we perceive things that I don‘t want to confuse you. I could probably start ... ...y be the same as for mentally healthy people, they just behave anti-socially. We‘ll come back to this kind of behavior later. ―So let‘s start ... ...e go to heaven or hell? Do we experience nearly endless reincarnations? Do we become the revered ancestors of our progeny? Does that afterlife start ... ...by millions. How remarkable are our minds to be able to conjure up so many absolute truths! And so with psychology! But with psychology we can start ... ...sia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ideas of Western psychology. FREUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ―Let‘s start ... ...te while copulating. The male red back spider is eaten by his mate after their date. Some salmon species, while not eating in their upstream trek, ... ...th our satisfying our needs and drives and our individual neurotic adjustments when our individual needs are not met. When we started on this trek W...

...2 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OP...

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