Kindless Philosophy

 Setting Off on the Right Foot “Talking about the mind, for many people, is rather like talking about sex: slightly embarrassing, undignified, maybe even disreputable. "Of course it exists," some might say, "but do we have to talk about it?" Yes, we do. Many people would rather talk about the brain (which, after all, is the mind) and would like to think that all the wonderful things we need to say about people could be said without lapsing into vulgar, undisciplined mentalistic talk, but it is now quite clear that many things need saying that cannot be said in the restricted languages of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, or behavioristic psychology. It is not just the arts and humanities that need to talk about the mind; the various puritanical attempts to complete the biological and social sciences without ever talking about it have by now amply revealed their futility. In fact there is something approaching a new consensus among cognitive scientists and the more libe...

Phenomenology of mind(spirit) „Dies Werden der Wissenschaft überhaupt, oder des Wissens, ist es, was diese Phänomenologie des Geistes, als der erste Teil des Systems derselben, darstellt. Das Wissen, wie es zuerst ist, oder der unmittelbare Geist ist das Geistlose, oder ist das sinnliche Bewußtsein. Um zum eigentlichen Wissen zu werden, oder das Element der Wissenschaft, was ihr reiner Begriff ist, zu erzeugen, hat er durch einen langen Weg sich hindurchzuarbeiten. - Dieses Werden, wie es in seinem Inhalte und den Gestalten, die sich in ihm zeigen, aufgestellt ist, erscheint als etwas anderes denn als die Anleitung des unwissenschaftlichen Bewußtseins zur Wissenschaft; auch etwas anderes als die Begründung der Wissenschaft; - so ohnehin, als die Begeisterung, die wie aus der Pistole mit dem absoluten Wissen unmittelbar anfängt, und mit andern Standpunkten dadurch schon fertig ist, daß sie keine Notiz davon zu nehmen erklärt.“  (G.W.F. Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes , Akademic Ve...

 Respecting Each Child as an Individual of Equal Worth “Mixed ability teaching takes place when a teacher tries to regulate his treatment of individual differences by the principle of equality. (Elliott, 1976, p. 4)” (17) A disadvantage of mixed ability grouping is that teachers are unable to effectively meet the needs of each student. However, mixed ability grouping requires appropriate ‘coordination’ by teachers. This is because this educational method aims to provide equality of opportunity to all students. Consideration of Equality of Opportunity All humans have human rights, both innate and acquired. An equal society does not end only with metaphysical discussions. Charles Darwin wrote to colonial administrators and missionaries around the world asking whether native peoples of Africa and other regions blushed with shame, initiating the first systematic study of their cultures. The results of this anthropological study led those to assume that the shame response, which is an a...

Mental history and Mental illness   Mental illness has always been with human history since the past. Unlike prehistoric times, ancient society viewed it as a physical problem, but in the Middle Ages, it was dismissed as a phenomenon of demon possession by evil spirits. However, as the number of people with mental illness increased exponentially during World War II, research on the occurrence of mental illness due to biological causes, which had begun in the 19th century, gained momentum and psychiatry became a specialized field of medicine. In the East, like the ancient West, humans were viewed holistically. Korea had only oriental medicine and folk remedies until the introduction of Western medicine in the late 19th century. Western missionaries and during the Japanese colonial period produced educated Korean psychiatrists, and the enactment of the “Mental Health Act” in 1995 led to the rapid development of psychiatry.(2015. 30-2) Phenomenology of perception One of the important ...