It seems that the idea of the conscious perspective normal for the comic man continues to devolve into cave concerns like Donald Trump and what to teach etc. The assumption is that the goals of humanism are possible for cave life. Here is a basic list of humanistic values. They seem very worthwhile but what is wrong with this picture?
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Here are some examples of humanistic perspective.
• A person feels like his or her life is bland and boring. A humanistic perspective would encourage the person to do some soul-searching and determine what is missing – a hobby? Friendships? A relationship? Whatever it takes for the person to feel fully self-actualized is what should be sought as treatment.
• The humanistic perspective encourages gestalt therapy, a special type of therapy that encourages an individual not to allow the past to affect the present, and focuses on the here and now rather than anything else.
• Family therapy is another example of the humanistic perspective. This type of therapy allows families to talk about their relationships with one another in order to encourage and strengthen those relationships, especially when families are going through difficult times such as periods of substance abuse or divorce.
• Another example of the humanistic perspective is for a person to focus on their strengths rather than their faults. The individual is encouraged not look past his or her flaws as he or she works toward a more satisfied, more complete life.
• In the humanistic perspective, it is generally regarded that all people have similar needs throughout the world, emphasizing the similarities between all members of the human race rather than the many differences. It is an approach that believes human relationships and interactions are of paramount importance.
• Cultural differences are not viewed in the humanistic perspective as being a result of the differences in human nature; rather, they are viewed as valid alternative ways of approaching life. This allows the humanistic perspective to underscore the value of all humans.
• The humanistic perspective includes the idea of self-help – that a person can be responsible for their own happiness, and that an unhappy or dissatisfied person can make changes to his or her whole life that will result in their eventual happiness and self-actualization.
• Sensitivity training at a place of employment is an example of the humanistic perspective, where individuals are taught to view those with whom they work as having the same needs and desires as themselves. It is a way of downplaying differences in physicality, culture, skin color, and belief, among other things.
• Instead of a medicine- or research-centered approach to therapy, the humanistic perspective encourages an approach that focuses on the individual person, and their individual needs and wants.
• The humanistic perspective believes that people seek value, meaning, and creativity in all they do. It understands that people have goals, and that reaching these goals is very important. It also understands that individuals are able to make choices that affect them and others, and so those choices carry with them a sense of responsibility
Humanism underestimates the power of social force and the importance of prestige for the human psych. When human meaning and purpose is defined in relation to society as it is with humanism, the need for prestige will be of primary importance. .How much of what is called altruism is really just a temporary expression of prestige and social hypocrisy? Prestige by definition prevents the actualization of equality of opportunity. It isn’t wanted. It opposes prestige. Simone Weil wrote:
Let us not think that because we are less brutal, less violent, less inhuman than our opponents we will carry the day. Brutality, violence, and inhumanity have an immense prestige that schoolbooks hide from children, that grown men do not admit, but that everyone bows before. For the opposite virtues to have as much prestige, they must be actively and constantly put into practice. Anyone who is merely incapable of being as brutal, as violent, and as inhuman as someone else, but who does not practice the opposite virtues, is inferior to that person in both inner strength and prestige, and he will not hold out in a confrontation.
Simone describes why the humanistic approach is not wanted. It doesn’t offer cave prestige. The humanistic approach cannot be put into practice. The human condition and its attachment to social prestige prevents it
Plato, Einstein, Simone, and others were and are aware of the necessity for acquiring the ability to transcend the need for social prestige as an expression of the Great Beast into the need to feel as a conscious human being. Such a person would be the Cosmic man. But as is obvious in the real world and on philosophy sites, it isn’t wanted. It is to satisfying to argue in the weeds and lose awareness of the wholeness of the big picture and basic self knowledge that doesn't originate in the cave
The trend in society is towards fragmentation and taken with the success of spirit killers in progressive education, it is difficult to see how the attraction to the potential of the cosmic man will ever be taken seriously enough to make a difference. It would have to begin with a conception of humility in relation to higher consciousness and higher human conscious potential which is foolish for humanism. How many will ever appreciate the depth and importance of Simone’s observation in the following? Yet if the majority could, it would make all the difference in the world.
Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks, translated by Richard Rees (London: Oxford University Press, 1970.)
The combination of these two facts — the longing in the depth of the heart for absolute good, and the power, though only latent, of directing attention and love to a reality beyond the world and of receiving good from it — constitutes a link which attaches every man without exception to that other reality.
Whoever recognizes that reality recognizes also that link. Because of it, he holds every human being without any exception as something sacred to which he is bound to show respect.
This is the only possible motive for universal respect towards all human beings. Whatever formulation of belief or disbelief a man may choose to make, if his heart inclines him to feel this respect, then he in fact also recognizes a reality other than this world's reality. Whoever in fact does not feel this respect is alien to that other reality also.