A Schema for a Natural Ontology of the Human: Reflections on Psychology and Religion
In its broadest meaning, psychology refers to the movements of the human soul : their vicissitudes, their origins, their fate. In contemporary usage, it suggests only the structures of mind in a scientific sense; it deals with such techniques as fix mind's contents and prero• gatives. Wide-rang...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
1983
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 1983, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-109 |
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Psychology
B Natural Ontology B Religion |
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| Summary: | In its broadest meaning, psychology refers to the movements of the human soul : their vicissitudes, their origins, their fate. In contemporary usage, it suggests only the structures of mind in a scientific sense; it deals with such techniques as fix mind's contents and prero• gatives. Wide-ranging and soaring, the soul animates everything we call human. As the soul's mere residue, mind, however has but a restricted set of functions investigable as a behavioural phenomenon. In its original sense, religion means a durable binding : firm, unbreakable commitment, ground for personal salvation, locus of ultimate responsibility. More narrowly, it refers to ritual and dogma, and to prescribed habits of worship. In this essay, I propose certain links between religion and psychology, intending these terms in their larger import. Such comprehensive psychology studies mankind's adventure toward some over-arching, all-inclusive concern. In the religious orientation, this process culminates in the fruition of all aspiration, as a redeeming participation in something beyond the natural. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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