"The course examines the distinction between moral philosophy and moral psychology, showing how emotions and intuitions often guide our judgments more than rational principles."
Apropos of which, a nice article in Quillette by Steven Pinker on the recently deceased Robert Trivers: https://shorturl.at/BdzHC
Freud of course famously said that the two things necessary for human happiness are work and love.
On the other hand, too much work can be a problem too. Samuel Gompers, who pioneered organized labor in the United States, said that the answer to new labor-saving technologies is a commensurate reduction in the hours of labor. Thus a family-friendly six-hour day and thirty-hour workweek might make sense to replace the current eight-hour day and forty hour workweek that was enacted into law way back in 1937
Even better, I've long advocated two half-time jobs outside the home to support a family in rural areas where people would have time to do useful things that today they pay others to do for them (childcare, eldercare, and building and maintaining their own houses).
For reasons that Henry George first made famous, this could not be achieved within or close to our major metropolitan areas, where two-income families and crowding have bid up the price of urban real estate far beyond what part-time working families could afford.
I'm pretty sure that a big reason for some men, maybe most, a reason to go to any therapist involves some relationship issues. And men are often, as I was, confused about relationships & sex & sexual desires. It's likely easier to describe sexual desires & thoughts & fantasies, in graphic detail, to a male therapist, rather than a friend over a beer. A friend who might meet with you and your partner and mention some of those thoughts the woman doesn't want you to have.
When women ask "what are you thinking?" They never want to hear how you were just wondering what sex would be like with their hot friend, or the hot movie star on TV, or the hot stranger you saw recently. And feeling like the sex with somebody else would be good is certainly not ever the kind of feeling they want their man to get in touch with.
I wish the 3 of you would agree to make a transcript available of all your lectures.
One interesting clue to Freud's ambition is that in a famous letter to his friend Wilhelm Fliess on February 1, 1900, he wrote:
"I am not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador—an adventurer, if you want it translated—with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
This helps explain how Frederick Crews, a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, who is widely considered Freud's most adamant critic, could come to see him as a "fraud," "charlatan," and "liar". Originally a Freudian, Crews became a staunch opponent, arguing in "Freud: The Making of an Illusion (2017)" (which is a fun read by. the way) that he was an unscientific, self-promoting opportunist who falsified data and ignored evidence.
Freud may have also wanted to scandalize the Victorian bourgeoisie by focusing on sex, which fits right in to this motivation. Penis envy and all that.
Despite all of this Freud was undoubtedly a cultural genius of sorts and a major literary talent. If you go back and read old issues of The New York Review of Books you will see what a dominant influence he had in elite intellectual circles in mid-century America. He and Marx, another Romantic in disguise, divided the world between them.
"The course examines the distinction between moral philosophy and moral psychology, showing how emotions and intuitions often guide our judgments more than rational principles."
Apropos of which, a nice article in Quillette by Steven Pinker on the recently deceased Robert Trivers: https://shorturl.at/BdzHC
Indeed. Thank you for sharing the article.
Freud of course famously said that the two things necessary for human happiness are work and love.
On the other hand, too much work can be a problem too. Samuel Gompers, who pioneered organized labor in the United States, said that the answer to new labor-saving technologies is a commensurate reduction in the hours of labor. Thus a family-friendly six-hour day and thirty-hour workweek might make sense to replace the current eight-hour day and forty hour workweek that was enacted into law way back in 1937
Even better, I've long advocated two half-time jobs outside the home to support a family in rural areas where people would have time to do useful things that today they pay others to do for them (childcare, eldercare, and building and maintaining their own houses).
For reasons that Henry George first made famous, this could not be achieved within or close to our major metropolitan areas, where two-income families and crowding have bid up the price of urban real estate far beyond what part-time working families could afford.
It's a complicated idea, not easy to achieve, but well within the realm of possibility: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U0C9HKW
I'm pretty sure that a big reason for some men, maybe most, a reason to go to any therapist involves some relationship issues. And men are often, as I was, confused about relationships & sex & sexual desires. It's likely easier to describe sexual desires & thoughts & fantasies, in graphic detail, to a male therapist, rather than a friend over a beer. A friend who might meet with you and your partner and mention some of those thoughts the woman doesn't want you to have.
When women ask "what are you thinking?" They never want to hear how you were just wondering what sex would be like with their hot friend, or the hot movie star on TV, or the hot stranger you saw recently. And feeling like the sex with somebody else would be good is certainly not ever the kind of feeling they want their man to get in touch with.
I wish the 3 of you would agree to make a transcript available of all your lectures.
One interesting clue to Freud's ambition is that in a famous letter to his friend Wilhelm Fliess on February 1, 1900, he wrote:
"I am not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador—an adventurer, if you want it translated—with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
This helps explain how Frederick Crews, a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, who is widely considered Freud's most adamant critic, could come to see him as a "fraud," "charlatan," and "liar". Originally a Freudian, Crews became a staunch opponent, arguing in "Freud: The Making of an Illusion (2017)" (which is a fun read by. the way) that he was an unscientific, self-promoting opportunist who falsified data and ignored evidence.
Freud may have also wanted to scandalize the Victorian bourgeoisie by focusing on sex, which fits right in to this motivation. Penis envy and all that.
Despite all of this Freud was undoubtedly a cultural genius of sorts and a major literary talent. If you go back and read old issues of The New York Review of Books you will see what a dominant influence he had in elite intellectual circles in mid-century America. He and Marx, another Romantic in disguise, divided the world between them.