tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20169168.post8538216376367674435..comments2023-07-08T06:13:19.344-07:00Comments on biblioblography: Atheism As Self ActualizationKrystalline Apostatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09044558668644447375noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20169168.post-57720927728145489942007-08-12T11:55:00.000-07:002007-08-12T11:55:00.000-07:00vjack - I was kicking around an idea for looking a...vjack - I was kicking around an idea for looking at how self-esteem is impacted by religious thought (or vice versa), when I looked up self-actualization. <BR/>Everything fell into place after that. It seemed to fit quite nicely.<BR/><BR/>PLV - while Freud's been pretty much relegated to the dustbins of history in most of his approaches, he began a systemic analysis of the human psyche that has had deep impacts on the way we see it today.<BR/>Once we eliminate the supernatural, addressing the imbalances of mental imbalances becomes blaringly obvious. <BR/>Occam's razor - a lovely, lovely way to trim the driftwood.Krystalline Apostatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09044558668644447375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20169168.post-83958718523229413422007-08-12T11:37:00.000-07:002007-08-12T11:37:00.000-07:00Good post KA. I had heard of this behavioral hierc...Good post KA. I had heard of this behavioral hierchery before but thought Freud was responsible for the theory. Did a quick little search on the subject and found that there are quite a few motivational theories out. One little tidbit I thought interesting: "Early explanations of motivation focused on instincts. Psychologists writing in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries suggested that human beings were basically programmed to behave in certain ways, depending upon the behavioral cues to which they were exposed. Sigmund Freud, for example, argued that the most powerful determinants of individual behavior were those of which the individual was not consciously aware."PastaLaVistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13284456583769658858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20169168.post-17726674876080641792007-08-12T07:35:00.000-07:002007-08-12T07:35:00.000-07:00Interesting idea. Much of what Maslow wrote about...Interesting idea. Much of what Maslow wrote about self-actualized individuals does remind me of many of the more open atheists I've met.vjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05868095335395368227noreply@blogger.com