Individual and Society

1. 1
Individual  Person and personhood
 Reason and Passion
 Wisdom and Folly
 Love and Hate
 Eros and Thanatos
 Compassion and Cruelty
 Metaphysical Optimism and Pessimism
 Honour and Reputation
 Malcontent, Dissent and Deviation
 Decadence
 The Unconscious (memory, its unreliability, parapraxes(slips))
 Change and growth (transformation; metamorphosis of ideas)
Society  Socialisation: the learning of values, attitudes and customs through family and institutionalised education.
 Civilisation: social rules, conventions and customs.
 Power and Justice
 Ideology: patriarchy and paternalism
 Social class and social stratification / division
 Ethnicity and race
 Gender: sexuality, masculinity, femininity, misogyny and feminism
 Family: marriage and motherhood
 Otherness and alienation
 Displacement and rootedness
 Materialism
 Bourgeois Capitalism
 Puritanism
 Nature and Society
THEMATIC CONCEPTS RELATED TO THE ‘INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY’

2. 2
 Religion and Mythology
Universal  Free Will and Causal Determinism
 Causality and Chance; Fate and Fortune
 Necessity and Contingency
 Appearance and Reality
 Knowledge and Belief
 Truth and Falsehood: Truth and Testimony
 Order and Chaos.
 Good and Evil
 Naturalism and Supernaturalism
 Actuality and Possibility