Sociality, Spirituality, and Meaning Making: Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study
| Autor: | Edith M. Rickett, John T. Cacioppo, Louise C. Hawkley, Christopher M. Masi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Review of General Psychology. 9:143-155 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1552 1089-2680 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/1089-2680.9.2.143 |
| Popis: | Scientific theories in the natural sciences posit invisible forces operating with measurable effects on physical bodies, but the scientific study of invisible forces acting on human bodies has made limited progress. The topics of sociality, spirituality, and meaning making are cases in point. The authors discuss some of the possible reasons for this as well as contemporary developments in the social sciences and neurosciences that may make such study possible and productive. In approximately 600 BCE, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus referred to the mind as an overwhelming space whose boundaries could never be fully comprehended. For the next 2,300 years, little changed in this regard. Indeed, before the enlightenment of the 18th century, scholars generally believed that thought was instantaneous and that action was governed by an indivisible mind separate from the body. As a result of the belief that the mind was infinitely fast and essentially unanalyzable, there was no point in trying to understand it using scientific means. The human spirit—encompassing the qualities of kindness, mercy, empathy, trust, compassion, justice, love, friendship, devotion, and hope—was championed in art, literature, and religion but was at best ignored by the scientific community. The past three centuries have been a period of unparalleled advance in science. Scientific theories of magnetism, gravity, and dark matter have emerged to posit invisible forces operating with measurable effects on physical bodies. During this same period, the scientific study of invisible forces acting on human bodies has |
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