Defined Your Terms
To be made for relationship with the Truth
What is rationality?
A basic biological requirement for life, which does not have to be modeled for us to desire it
What is a need?
The idea that life, or at least something in the future, still expects something from you
What is hope?
Symposium is a class about what it means to be human -- which means it falls under this branch of study
What is anthropology?
"The ______ ... seems to have been a life in which you perceived your calling, faithfully followed it, and did your work with satisfaction; married, made a home, and raised a family; associated generously with neighbors; ate and drank with pleasure the produce of your local landscape; grew old seeing yourself replaced by your children or younger neighbors, but continuing in old age to be useful; and finally died a good or a holy death surrounded by loved ones."
What is the ancient norm?
To be from another as a gratuitous gift, in yourself possessing an inward subjectivity, and to be for another (oriented towards self-gift)
What is personhood?
The idea that we are 100% in control of our desires, completely uninfluenced by other people -- we believe our desires are "completely autonomous, independent, and self-directed"
What is the Romantic Lie?
According to Frankl, we discover meaning in life in three different ways -- name one
What is 1) creating a significant work/doing a significant deed, 2) experiencing beauty, truth, or goodness or love and responsibility to another person, or 3) experiencing suffering with hope/meaning?
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's vision of calling relies on this, which means to be made a son or daughter (of God)
What is filiality?
"When societies were threatened with disorder, they used violence to drive out violence. They would expel or destroy a chosen person or group, and this action would have the effect of preventing more widespread violence. Girard called the process by which this happens ________."
What is the scapegoat mechanism?
"Desire generated and formed through the imitation of what someone has already desired or is perceived to desire"
A desire "rooted in ephemeral, superficial things" -- "fleeting...desires that dominate most of life when it is lived unintentionally"
What is a thin desire?
In insulting their victims and treating them like animals, the Nazis attack this aspect of what it means to be human in their victims
What is their rationality?
According to Gaudium et spes, this is the root of human dignity
What is being made in the image and likeness of God?
"The Lord Jesus, when He prayed to the Father, 'that all may be one. . . as we are one,' opened up vistas closed to human reason, for He implied a certain likeness between the union of the divine Persons, and the unity of God's sons in truth and charity. This likeness reveals that man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, cannot fully find himself except through a sincere ________ of himself."
What is gift?
"When a person lives within the same time, place, or social sphere as their model of desire and the likelihood of coming into contact with the model is high"
What is internal mediation?
"When a person tries to differentiate themselves from a mimetic rival by wanting something different or the opposite of whatever the rival wants" -- the "screw you, Dad" of rivalries
What is mirrored imitation?
According to Frankl, this is the job of the logotherapist
What is, to help people see reality better?
What is in his family?
"For every individual is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a ______ and free creature capable of knowing God and loving him."
What is rational?
According to Mulieris dignitatem and Gaudium et spes, to make a complete, total, and sincere gift of one's self to another
What is communion?
Striving for some new way of living or being -- like, for instance, the desire to become a mimetic rival
What is metaphysical desire?
Frankl believes that the true meaning of life can only be discovered in the world, rather than in "man or his own psyche, as if it were a closed system" -- this means that discovering the true meaning of life requires us to do this, a kind of forgetting of self
What is self-transcendence?
ANY PLAY CHALLENGE
Complete the rhetorical triangle, right now, in front of everyone.
According to Burgis, the simplest definition of love is "wanting the _________ of the _______."
What is wanting the good of the other?