Thursday, August 3, 2017

Vocab for weeks 3 and 4

Write a brief explanation for these terms:

1) theology

2) collective unconscious

3) aesthetic

4) What is an 'innocent reading' ?

4 comments:

  1. Theology as the study of divine things and religion i.e. religious faith, acts, practices and experiences and mostly the study of God and how God relates to the world ("Theology", n.d).

    Theology. (n.d.) In merrriam-webster.com. Retrieved August 10, 2017, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theology

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  2. Collective unconscious is a term coined by psychologist Carl Jung that looks at a part of the unconscious mind where inherited patterns of thinking and experiences are common among people. They can be arranged into archetypes and observed through their effects on behaviour, situations, dreams, etc.

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  3. 1) theology


    Theology, a study of religious faith, practice and experience, especially the study of God and the God’ relation to the world. In other word, theology is the science of God or religion, it give people belief and could influence their behaviour as well.

    Patton, M (2005). What is Theology. Retrieved from https://bible.org/article/what-theology



    2) collective unconscious


    Collective unconscious is the common awareness, feeling, behaviours of people which is already occur in their brain, it hereditary during the human evolution. For example, people will feel nervous, worried, scary in the dark, because of the dark bring many danger to human ancestor, and this kind of feeling have left in the our brain during the evolution.

    Luton, F (2017) What is the Collective Unconscious. Retrieved from http://frithluton.com/articles/collective-unconscious/

    3) aesthetic


    Aesthetic is a sensitive of beauty, it could provide people ability to discern the beautiful and ugly. Also it is different from each other, depends on different perspective of culture and arts.

    Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/browse/aesthetic

    4) What is an 'innocent reading' ?

    Innocent means have no knowledge or doing nothing wrong. For personal consideration, Innocent reading could be reading something, but misunderstand the meaning of content, or do not get what ideas or emotion that the author want to tell readers.

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  4. 2) collective unconscious

    Collective unconscious is the theory that the human species feature “innate characteristics ‘imprinted’ on it as a result of evolution” (Mcleod, 2014). Carl Jung, who coined the term proposes that collective unconscious is the form of the world which is already born in the individual “as a virtual image” (Jung, 1953, p. 188).

    3) aesthetic

    In philosophy, aesthetic pertain to concepts such beauty and ugliness. Aesthetics can relate to the ‘self’ and different perceptions of beauty.

    References

    Jung, C. G. (1953). Collected works. Vol. 12. Psychology and alchemy.

    McLeod, S. A. (2014). Carl Jung. Retrieved from www.simplypsychology.org/carl-jung.html

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