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Understanding human conduct : the innate and acquired meaning of life / Sam S. Rakover.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rakover, Sam S., 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness.
- Meaning (Psychology).
- Life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface: Consciousness and Significance: The Innate and Acquired Meaning of Life
- Purpose of the Book
- Topics of Discussion and Comments on the Writing of this Book
- Note
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: On the Relationship between Worldview and Life-Meaning
- The Emotional Infrastructure
- The Rational/Scientific Infrastructure
- Implications Associated with This Worldview
- Chapter 2: An Infinite Universe That Is Indifferent to and Independent of Humans and Their Actions
- The Infinity of the Universe
- Mechanistic Descriptions and Explanations
- Beginning, Blooming, Death (BBD)
- Evolution
- Humans Face an Infinite and Indifferent Universe
- Ordinary Acquired Life-Meaning (Ordinary Meaning)
- The Undermining of Ordinary Meaning: Loss of Direction
- Psychological/Observational, Philosophical, and Theoretical Approaches
- Chapter 3: The Consciousness-Meaning Model: Conceptual Infrastructure
- The CM Model: Two Types of Meaning Based on Consciousness
- How Consciousness Is Related to Mental States and How Meaning Is Conveyed
- Consciousness and Mental States
- Consciousness and Meaning
- Meaningless and Absurdity According to Camus, Nagel, and the CM Model
- Chapter 4: An Explanation of Consciousness Has Yet to Be Found
- Implications of the Consciousness-Neurophysiology Connection
- Overview of Explanations of the Conundrum of the Brain and Consciousness
- Can Human Behavior Be Explained Mechanistically without Consciousness as an Explanatory Concept?
- Has a Brain-Consciousness Theory Been Developed That Explains the Relationship between Neurophysiological Processes in the Brain and Consciousness?
- Is It Possible to Reduce Cognitive Explanations Grounded in the Concept of Consciousness to Mechanistic Explanations (Such as Neurophysiological Explanations)?
- Has a Computer Been Developed That Is Complex and Sophisticated Enough to Achieve a State of Consciousness?
- Consciousness as an Explanatory but Unexplained Concept
- Chapter 5: Explaining Life-Meaning, Absurdity, and Suicide
- Innate Meaning, Ordinary Meaning, and Extreme Meaning
- The Confession and Novella by Leo Tolstoy
- Chapter 6: Philosophical and Explanatory Status of Life-Meaning, Absurdity, and Suicide
- Anchoring Life-Meaning in Values
- Anchoring Life-meaning in General Paths of Life
- General Consensus
- Religious Beliefs
- The CM Model as a Response to the Three Problems under Consideration
- Free Will
- Relativism
- Chapter 7: The Concept of Life-Meaning Is Explanatory and Explained
- Life Crises That Undermine Individuals' Life-Meaning
- Coping
- Rational Thought
- Explaining Life-Meaning
- Explanatory Systems: A Schematic Outline
- Creating Meanings via Three Explanatory Systems
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rakover, Sam S., 1938- Understanding human conduct
- ISBN:
- 9781793632418
- 1793632413
- Publisher Number:
- 40030797795
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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