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• Psychology (at Rivendell)
• Context
What is Truth? (Theos)
What is Reality? (Cosmos)
What is Man? (Anthropos)
What is Justice? (Ethnos)
• Psychology (Anthropos)
• What is Man?
Psychology: How should we view the Dignity, Dysfunctionality,
Deliverance, and Destiny of man?
Fine Arts: How should we view Art’s Monuments, Metaphysics, Meaning,
Methods and Morality?
Sociology: How do Formal Organization, Hierarchical Stratification, Symbolical
Communication and Legal Protection contribute to a Flourishing Social Order?
• Psychology (Overview)
How should we view the Dignity, Dysfunctionality, Deliverance, and Destiny of
man?
Week 1: How have we arrived at our present Psychological understanding of the
nature of man?
Week 2: How should we view the unique dignity of Man in contrast to animals
and angels?
Week 3: How should we view the universal deformity of Man as a creature both
fallen and finite?
Week 4: How should we view an undertaken deliverance of Man minus rebirth
for recovery?
Week 5: How should we view the ultimate destiny of man as to give meaning to
life and labors?
• Psychology (Week 1)
• How have we arrived at our present Psychological understanding of the
nature of man?
Answer: Through a millennia-long conversation framed by a series of historical
developments, philosophical debates, methodological departures, experimental
discoveries and theological dialogues surrounding the nature of humanity’s
psychosomatic existence
• Psychology (Week 2)
• How should we view the unique dignity of Man in contrast to animals and
angels?
Monday: Human Beings: Beasts from Birth?
Wednesday: Human Capacities: Sources of Self-Esteem?
Friday: Human Soul: Made from Matter?
• Psychology (Week 2, Monday)
• Human Beings: Beasts from Birth?
Introductory Readings:
“Five Classic Doctrines of Man” by Robert Macleod
“Biological Bases of Behavior” by David G. Myers
“Soul” by Mortimer Adler
“Jung” by Andrew Fuller
Classical Readings:
“On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals” by Thomas Huxley
“What is Man” by B. F. Skinner
“State in which Man Was Created” by John Calvin
Canonical Readings:
Genesis 1-3, 9:1-17
Job 5:6-7, 7:17-18
Psalms 8:1-9, 147:1-3
Isaiah 53:1-12
Jeremiah 17:9
John 1:29, 3:16
Romans 2-8, 10:9-10
I Corinthians 15
II Corinthians 3:12-18
James 3:9
I Peter 2:24-25
I John 1-2
Revelation 21:1-4, 22:1-5
• Psychology (Week 2, Monday)
• Human Beings: Beasts from Birth?
First Discussion:
How is culture telling us we are like animals?
Man is the Alps of the animal world? (Huxley)
If not a machine, what is man? (Skinner)
Second Discussion:
What are ways humans think of themselves?
How do superheroes influence our thinking?
What is Imago Dei?