Man


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1 Definitions of man, conceptions of the properties and qualities of human nature.
2 The conception of man as essentially distinct, or differing in kind, from brute animals, man's specific rationality and freedom.
3 The conception of man as distinguished from brutes by such powers or properties as abstraction or relational thought, language and law, art and science.
4 The conception of man as an animal, differing only in degree of intelligence and of other qualities possessed by other animals.
5 Man's knowledge of man.
6 Immediate self-consciousness, man's intimate or introspective knowledge of himself.
7 The sciences of human nature, anthropology and psychology, ethnography and ethnology, rational and empirical psychology, experimental and clinical psychology.
8 The subject matter, scope, and methods of the science of man.
9 The methods and validity of psychology.
10 The relation of psychology to physiology, the study of organic factors in human behavior.
11 The place of psychology in the order of sciences, the study of man as prerequisite for other studies.
12 The constitution of man.
13 Man as a unity or a conjunction of matter and spirit, body and soul, extension and thought.
14 Man as a pure spirit, a soul or mind using a body.
15 Man's spirituality as limited to his immaterial powers or functions, such as reason and will.
16 Comparisons of man with God or the gods, or with angels or spiritual substances.
17 Man as an organization of matter or as a collocation of atoms.
18 The analysis of human nature into its faculties, powers, or functions, the id, ego, and super-ego in the structure of the psyche.
19 Man's vegetative powers, comparison with similar functions in plants and animals.
20 Man's sensitive and appetitive powers, comparison with similar functions in other animals.
21 Man's rational powers, the problem of similar powers in other animals.
22 The general theory of faculties, the critique of faculty psychology.
23 The order and harmony of man's powers and functions, contradictions in human nature, the higher and lower nature of man.
24 Cooperation or conflict among man's powers.
25 Abnormalities due to defect or conflict of powers, feeblemindedness, neuroses, insanity, madness.
26 The distinctive characteristics of men and women and their differences.
27 The cause and range of human inequalities, differences in ability, inclination, temperament, habit.
28 The equality or inequality of men and women.
29 The ages of man, infancy, youth, maturity, senescence, generational conflict.
30 Group variations in human type, racial differences.
31 Biological aspects of racial type.
32 The influence of environmental factors on human characteristics, climate and geography as determinants of racial or national differences.
33 Cultural, ethnic, and national differences among men.
34 The origin or genealogy of man.
35 The race of men as descendants or products of the gods.
36 God's special creation of man.
37 Man as a natural variation from other forms of animal life.
38 The two conditions of man.
39 The myth of a golden age, the age of Kronos and the age of Zeus.
40 The Christian doctrine of Eden and of the history of man in the world.
41 The condition of man in Eden, the preternatural powers of Adam.
42 The condition of man in the world, fallen man, corrupted or wounded human nature.
43 The Christian view of the stages of human life in the world, law and grace.
44 Secular conceptions of the stages of human life, man in a state of nature and in society, prehistoric and historic man, primitive and civilized man.
45 Man's conception of himself and his place in the world.
46 Man's understanding of his relation to the gods or God lob.
47 Man as the measure of all things.
48 Man as an integral part of the universe, his station in the cosmos.
49 The finiteness and insufficiency of man, his sense of being dependent and ordered to something beyond himself.
50 Man's comparison of himself with other creatures and with the universe as a whole.
51 The theological conception of man.
52 Man as made in the image of God.
53 The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
54 God incarnate in human form, the human nature of Christ.
55 Man as an object of laughter and ridicule, comedy and satire.
56 The grandeur and misery of man.


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