PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Disorder, Physis, Anthropomorphism
8 May 2018
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Lecture 1
1. Early humans – Premodernism
a. looked at everything as alive (animism) and gave human
attributes to nature (anthropomorphism)
b. assumed a ghost/spirit lived in everything. (breath)
c. Believed in reification – when a thought is treated as real
including dreams and imaginations.
d. Magic – developed to influence or control the spirits.
e. Gods – Supernatural entities that created and controlled.
2. Early Greek Religion
a. 5th-6th century BC Greeks explained things through religion.
i. Olympian religion – belief in Olympian gods, the “breath-
soul survives death w/o memories/personality traits of the
person it occupied during life. Greek philosophers agreed.
ii. Dionysiac-Orphic religion – belief in the transmigration
of the soul. Became a part of the Judeo-Christian
heritage.
b. **Religion was a response to the need for ethical systems and
codes of behavior due to increased technology and social
changes (ag, writing, and community organization.
3. First Philosophers (Cosmologists)Greek (600-300 BCE)
a. Philosophy began when natural explanations (logos) replaced
supernatural ones (mythos)
b. Sought to explain the origin, structure, and processes
governing the cosmos (universe)
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