DWQA Questions › Tag: existential spiritual crisisFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesFrankl quoted the great psychiatrist Dubois: “Of course one can manage without all that (dealing with a patient’s existential spiritual crisis) and still be a doctor, but in that case one should realize that the only thing that makes us different from the veterinarian is the clientele.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics238 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Freud once said, ‘Try and subject a number of strongly differentiated human beings to the same amount of starvation. With the increase of the imperative need for food, all individual differences will be blotted out, and, in their place, we shall see the uniform expression of the one unsatisfied instinct.'” But Frankl by dint of direct experience, not supposition, knew better: “But in the concentration camps, we witnessed the contrary; we saw while faced with the identical situation, one man degenerated while another attained virtual saintliness.” Freud’s is the atheist’s “untested” perspective, and one we assume is shared by the interlopers. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics247 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics241 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Previously the only obvious philosophical tenet that entered into the doctor’s work was the tacit affirmation of the value of health. Now we need to worry about WHY he (the patient) needs the health.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics233 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “A doctor should not prescribe a tranquilizer care for the despair of a man who is grappling with spiritual problems.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics233 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “It is philosophical dilettantism (or amateurism) to rule out, for example, the existence of a divine being on the ground that the idea of God arose out of primitive man’s fear of powerful natural forces. It is equally false to judge the worth of a work of art by the fact that the artist created it in, say, a psychotic phase of his life.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics232 views0 answers0 votes
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