It is a part of man nature of his animal as well as his rational nature, to desire positive responses from others. The desire to be liked by others, to have pleasent day to day interactions with other people, and to enjojy positive feedback on many levels of social interaction is a need of man’s conceptual and perceptual nature.
A good man gets pleasure from contemplation of the good, a friend is another self, and we can contemplate our neighbors better than ourselves and their action better than our own. “his purpose is to contemplate worthy actions and actions that are his own, and the actions of a good man who is his friend have both these qualitites”
1.Rand defended and explain mans unique form of conciousness- reason. How reason works, and why man needs freedom to use his reason.
Branden, argued that man needs romantic love beause, unlike introspective awareness, love enables man to percceive his self in the world.
Man is a rational animal, and as such, has cognitive needs resulting from his animal nature in combination with his rational faculty.
One of man’s fundamental cognitive needs is to concretize his ideas and values, to grasp what they mean in reality.
Memoreies or fantasies always use a perceptual mental image- be it visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthethis-to mentally anchor abstractions, to give them concrete form.
Of all his cognitive faculties, only the rational level of mans conscouness is distinctively human, but this level must work with the sensory and perceptual levels of cognition for knoweldge to be produced. Reason must find concrete forms for its product to be used by memory, imagination and perception
To a great extent, art fulfills the need to concretize one’s greeates t value
Aristotle idea that is what might be and ought to be. Art is the selectve re-creation of reality according to the artistt metaphysical value judgemnets.
These arts show men how their reason should direct the way in which they percieve the world, these arts show them to what to pay attention. Fiction, which includes novel, concretize abstractions by using words to recreate specific people and events.
Art integrates into a real, cocnrete thing the deepest, most esential values which a man holds, so that he may feel as if he perceives them existing, and thus be moved to act toward them.
Art enales man to experience important values as if they were here and now, as if the essentials were concretely before him. This gives man the experience of their actual existence. It is both thrilling to experience their existence, nad inspiring. One walks away from a posistive artistic expereince feeling “that’s what life shoul be like” and feeling motivated to acheive it.
However, the experience of art is not interactive. It is a one way process, from the artwork to one’s consciousness. The viewer either gets it or does not.
It was not the pressure of a hand that made her tremble, but the instantaneous sum of its meaning, the knoweldge that it was hid hand// it contained her pride in herself and that it should be she whom he had chosen as his mirror, that it should be her body whhich was now giving him the sum of his existence, as his body was giving her the sum of hers.
He contends that one’s need of love is a conquence of one’s rational nature, it dereives from a need to objectify one’s deepest values of self. Men want their sould to be psychologically visible understood and valued- by others as a means of objectification.
He cannot experience himself concretely as awhole person- a personality- as he can e xperience others. He cannot see the facial experessions or body movement he makes nor hear the tone of his voice as he could perceive these things about another person.
Normally man experiences himself as a process- in that consciousnes is a process, an activity, and the contents of man’s mind are a shifting flow of perceptions, thoughts, and emotions…the sum total of which can never be held in focal awareness at any one time. That sum is experienced, but not perceived as such.
A man gets enjoyment from the appreciation of others through verbal expression and, especially, through the actions and emotional reactions of others. Men seems to be tuned into the emotional reactions of others.
Man does not have automatic koweldge of what to value, but mans actual needs are set by his nature.
The feel of genuine socialibility.
Society is a human value. Since the mind is an individual function, independe is also a value. Flourishing requires social interaction and independence.
2. the higher animals do have a grasp of reality above mere sensation or stimulus response. They ahve generalizing and processing abilities, at the perceptual level, that take them far beyond mere response to stimulus .
animals whose nature requires them to live in a cooperative group for their well-being tend to have more advanced communication skills than other species. Concomitanlty, they are more sensitive and responsive to members of othe species, and they have more need of interaction.
Whole being is involved.
We dont experience ourselves as a whole person, but as a process, have slight ideas of how we move, but aren’t aware of how we look through other people, our unique personality. Get detailed feedback as yourself as a personality. You are picking someone who is similar.
Integrated whole person.
1.rational nature- know as abstraction, appreciate and value ourselves, know ourselves in a concrete way by interaction of other human beings. In order to live well you need to have a positive sense of youself.
2. animal nature: psychological needs are related by having feedback and interaction of other human beings.
A good man gets pleasure from contemplation of the good, a friend is another self, and we can contemplate our neighbors better than ourselves and their action better than our own. “his purpose is to contemplate worthy actions and actions that are his own, and the actions of a good man who is his friend have both these qualitites”
1.Rand defended and explain mans unique form of conciousness- reason. How reason works, and why man needs freedom to use his reason.
Branden, argued that man needs romantic love beause, unlike introspective awareness, love enables man to percceive his self in the world.
Man is a rational animal, and as such, has cognitive needs resulting from his animal nature in combination with his rational faculty.
One of man’s fundamental cognitive needs is to concretize his ideas and values, to grasp what they mean in reality.
Memoreies or fantasies always use a perceptual mental image- be it visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthethis-to mentally anchor abstractions, to give them concrete form.
Of all his cognitive faculties, only the rational level of mans conscouness is distinctively human, but this level must work with the sensory and perceptual levels of cognition for knoweldge to be produced. Reason must find concrete forms for its product to be used by memory, imagination and perception
To a great extent, art fulfills the need to concretize one’s greeates t value
Aristotle idea that is what might be and ought to be. Art is the selectve re-creation of reality according to the artistt metaphysical value judgemnets.
These arts show men how their reason should direct the way in which they percieve the world, these arts show them to what to pay attention. Fiction, which includes novel, concretize abstractions by using words to recreate specific people and events.
Art integrates into a real, cocnrete thing the deepest, most esential values which a man holds, so that he may feel as if he perceives them existing, and thus be moved to act toward them.
Art enales man to experience important values as if they were here and now, as if the essentials were concretely before him. This gives man the experience of their actual existence. It is both thrilling to experience their existence, nad inspiring. One walks away from a posistive artistic expereince feeling “that’s what life shoul be like” and feeling motivated to acheive it.
However, the experience of art is not interactive. It is a one way process, from the artwork to one’s consciousness. The viewer either gets it or does not.
It was not the pressure of a hand that made her tremble, but the instantaneous sum of its meaning, the knoweldge that it was hid hand// it contained her pride in herself and that it should be she whom he had chosen as his mirror, that it should be her body whhich was now giving him the sum of his existence, as his body was giving her the sum of hers.
He contends that one’s need of love is a conquence of one’s rational nature, it dereives from a need to objectify one’s deepest values of self. Men want their sould to be psychologically visible understood and valued- by others as a means of objectification.
He cannot experience himself concretely as awhole person- a personality- as he can e xperience others. He cannot see the facial experessions or body movement he makes nor hear the tone of his voice as he could perceive these things about another person.
Normally man experiences himself as a process- in that consciousnes is a process, an activity, and the contents of man’s mind are a shifting flow of perceptions, thoughts, and emotions…the sum total of which can never be held in focal awareness at any one time. That sum is experienced, but not perceived as such.
A man gets enjoyment from the appreciation of others through verbal expression and, especially, through the actions and emotional reactions of others. Men seems to be tuned into the emotional reactions of others.
Man does not have automatic koweldge of what to value, but mans actual needs are set by his nature.
The feel of genuine socialibility.
Society is a human value. Since the mind is an individual function, independe is also a value. Flourishing requires social interaction and independence.
2. the higher animals do have a grasp of reality above mere sensation or stimulus response. They ahve generalizing and processing abilities, at the perceptual level, that take them far beyond mere response to stimulus .
animals whose nature requires them to live in a cooperative group for their well-being tend to have more advanced communication skills than other species. Concomitanlty, they are more sensitive and responsive to members of othe species, and they have more need of interaction.
Whole being is involved.
We dont experience ourselves as a whole person, but as a process, have slight ideas of how we move, but aren’t aware of how we look through other people, our unique personality. Get detailed feedback as yourself as a personality. You are picking someone who is similar.
Integrated whole person.
1.rational nature- know as abstraction, appreciate and value ourselves, know ourselves in a concrete way by interaction of other human beings. In order to live well you need to have a positive sense of youself.
2. animal nature: psychological needs are related by having feedback and interaction of other human beings.