SPIRITUAL Flashcards
(28 cards)
LATIN WORD OF SPIRITUAL
spiritus
Could refer to a higher being.
Sacred transcendence
Enables a person to experience a feeling of oneness with a
higher being and the universe and gives a deeper purpose or
meaning to one’s life.
THE SPIRITUAL SELF
Regarded as an essential act to realize the ultimate
meaning of transcendence and human life.
Worship
An organized system of ideas about the spiritual
sphere or the supernatural, along with associated
ceremonial practices by which people try to interpret and/or
influence aspects of the universe otherwise beyond their
control.
Religion
__ AND ___ fulfill numerous social and
psychological needs, such as the need to explain human
sufferings and death.
Spirituality and religion
T OR F
Spirituality and religion may be a source of love, hope, and
affection
TRUE
In Man’s Search for Meaning, ___ begins by sharing
his personal experiences in a ___ concentration camp.
Viktor Frankl ; Nazi
He explains how a prisoner passes through three major
phases in the concentration camps, how each phase
transformed the prisoners from their previous lives to a new
one, and how they developed various pathologies.
Viktor Frankl
The blunting of emotions and the feeling that one
could not care anymore. It is a protective shell from the
brutalities in the camp.
Apathy
depersonalization STATE
a state in which everything seemed
unreal or unlikely as in a dream.
T OR F
inevitable human suffering can
contribute to human achievement and the search of
meaning in life.
TRUE
Frankl’s personal experiences in the Nazi concentration
camps during World War II led him to develop the basic
tenets of ______
logotherapy
The pursuit of human existence, as well as on
man’s search for such a meaning.
Logotherapy
striving to find a meaning in
one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.
logotherapy,
Love is the
only way to grasp another human being in the
innermost core of his or her personality. No one
can become fully aware of the essence of another
human being unless he or she loves him or her.
Experiencing something or someone
In
logotherapy, one can discover the meaning of life in three
different ways:
doing a deed,
experiencing a value,
suffering.
The way of finding meaning in life
is through achievements or accomplishments.
Doing a deed
Through suffering that man encounters
the central theme of existentialism: to live is to
suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
If there is purpose in life at all, there must be a
purpose in suffering and in dying.
Suffering
TRUE OR FALSE
Frankl further suggests that one should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his or her own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out aconcrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
TRUE