Week 2.2. - The Millennial Turn (Caraga State University - PDF)

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY COURSE MATERIAL (Video Transcript) First Term, AY 2020-2021 Course Code UTS Course Description Understanding the Self Prerequisite None Credits 3 units; 54 hours (Lecture) Mode of D...

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY COURSE MATERIAL (Video Transcript) First Term, AY 2020-2021 Course Code UTS Course Description Understanding the Self Prerequisite None Credits 3 units; 54 hours (Lecture) Mode of Delivery Online Week Number 2 lesson 1 Lesson/Topic The Millennial Turn Micro-Learning At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to: Outcomes identify the different perspective of a man in his society; initiates discussion concerning the view of a man; and create their own perspective of what is a man. Assessment Measures Do it yourself worksheet Video Transcript Hi, everyone! Good day. I am Cedrix Von Alesna from the Department of Communication and Humanities. Welcome to our third video lecture entitled The Millennial Turn. The Millennial Turn will cover ideas by Albert Camus, Viktor Frankl, and Erich Fromm. Camus sees our life not as something beautiful but instead believes that our life is absurd. He thinks that our life is meaningless and pointless. We wake up every day, do every routine, and for what goal? Because of this Camus suggests two solution to the problem of absurdity. First, is suicide, killing one’s self means the absurdity of life also ends. Second, is belief in a religion, at the end of this current life, the is a beautiful afterlife for us. The two solutions are not actual solutions, rather they are an escape to the absurdity of life. The real solution that Camus suggest is the road Sisyphus took. Sisyphus is a person that Camus calls as an absurd hero. A man cursed to roll a boulder to the top of a mountain and yet is happy with his circumstance. This is the goal we have to attain in life. Yes, life is absurd but it can still be a meaningful life. We have to accept that life is absurd and we can enjoy it, like Sisyphus who rolls the boulder, a routine he needs to repeat everyday and is able to see value and be happy. Life is absurd but we can be happy in the absurdity of our life, all we need to do is accept it, and value what we have now. Frankl on the other hand does not see life as absurd rather for him life is full of suffering. Are we suffering in everyday activity? Are our routines tiring? Our life is a life where are just journeying through and is full of pain and suffering. But to escaping this Ethics | Overview of Philosophy 1  feeling of pain is through finding meaning in our life. Frankl believed that needless of our circumstances we are capable of finding meaning in life and our motivation to live arises from our will to find meaning in life. Our journeys are different and we have the freedom to search for meaning in what we do, and what we Video Transcript experience in life. But we discover this meaning in life through (contd.) three different methods, first is through doing a deed in life. Seeing people help the one’s in need or seeing a child share food to others, reminds us that the world is not that bad after all. Second is through experiencing something or encountering someone. Seeing a beautiful sunset, comforts us that in the midst of our bad day, the world can offer us something beautiful. Third is through our own attitude in the search for meaning. If the world takes away everything that we have, what is left is ourselves and our freedom to pursue things and this is the last way to search for meaning. I myself is a tool to find meaning in life. If I am left alone, I still can survive with my meaning in life. Camus and Frankl focused on the idea of life. But for Fromm a conversation his started was on love. Fromm starts the conversation by asking the question, is love an art? Because if it is, then it requires knowledge and effort. Fromm is not saying the we do not but effort in love, but he sees that we human have a peculiar attitude towards relationship. The first problem he has observed is, the attitude of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one’s capacity to love. We human are fixated on the attitude on “are we loveable”, am I cute enough or likeable enough for others. But because of this mind set we forget what is more essential and that is are we capable of loving them. Can I love you? The second problem Fromm observe is the attitude of, people think that to love is simple, what is difficult to find is the right object to love, the right person to love. We do not need to learn anything because to love is easy. But the problem here is, even if we find the right person to love, our ideal partner in life, our forever, are you really capable of loving them. You may have the perfect half, but your heart is incapable of loving because you have forgotten to develop your ability to love. The third error that we commit with love, is the confusion between the initial feeling of “falling” in love, and the permanent state of being in love. We enjoy the kilig moments of falling in love but when we reach the serious parts of being in love, we start to hate the responsibilities, the conflict we have to fix, or the issues we need to resolve. We love the sweet part but we dread the bitter parts of it. Because of this misconception, we sometimes fail to understand that love is an art we can master, that it needs knowledge and effort. Just like art, to make a masterpiece, we need to understand it properly and put in the necessary effort. Nothing is earned without putting in the needed prerequisites. Nothing Understanding the Self | Paradigm of the Old 2 can be treasured with out working hard and putting your mind into it. With all of these, the next topics we are going to discuss would be about the perspective of the East and the West. And that is where our next lesson is heading. For now, we have talk about Camus absurdity of life, Frankl’s Life is Suffering and Fromm’s Art of Love. I hope you learn something from this lecture-discussion video. For enrichment, feel free to study Handouts via LMS or communicate with your instructors for questions. Likewise, please be reminded of the due date of your activity worksheet available and accessible via LMS or other platforms provided by your instructors. Enjoy learning and keep safe everyone! -end of video transcript- Department of Psychology Understanding the Self | Paradigm of the Old 3