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t. e. Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr[a] (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the ...
A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
Singularitarianism is a movement defined by the belief that a technological singularity —the creation of superintelligence —will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans. [1]
Norman Kemp Smith (photographed in 1947 by Walter Stoneman). Norman Duncan Kemp Smith, FBA, FRSE (5 May 1872 – 3 September 1958) was a Scottish philosopher who was Professor of Psychology (1906–1914) and Philosophy (1914–1919) at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh (1919–1945). [1]
Gestalt prayer. The Gestalt prayer is a 56-word statement by psychotherapist Fritz Perls that is taken as a classic expression of Gestalt therapy as a way of life model of which Perls was a founder. The key idea of the statement is Gestalt practice: the focus on living in response to one's own needs, without projecting onto or taking introjects ...
Paul Meehl was born January 3, 1920, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Otto and Blanche Swedal.His family name "Meehl" was his stepfather's. [3] When he was age 16, his mother died as the result of poor medical care which, according to Meehl, greatly affected his faith in the expertise of medical practitioners and diagnostic accuracy of clinicians. [3]
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Contemplative psychology became visible in the Western sphere of psychology when researchers began studying the methods used to help individuals understand their own mind, emotions, and motivations. The goal of these practices is to improve the quality of one's own life (and, by extension, the quality of other people's lives).