The following articles are related to ‘History’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
We are organisms co-existing with our environment, making no sense without it, needing to be aware of what we are actually doing, rather than what we think we are doing — let alone what we think about what we are thinking we are doing.
We climb down from the giants’ shoulders to act differently because of the vision we have had.
In this second of the series on sense of self and how it differs across cultures, I am going to look at the interconnected or relational self, and how awareness of how interdependent we are might lead to fear of others.
It seems to me that a good life is a mix of these three realms: the sensual enjoyment of the physical, the pleasure of discovering and expressing our uniqueness and the delight we take in what is beyond ourselves.
Our conceptualizations of the situations we find ourselves in can not only place us at a disadvantage, but can literally do us harm.
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