Psychological and Ethical Developments
Apr. 20th, 2022 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipWhat does one do when they're already ahead in their psych degree? Keep going of course. Whereas most would have had fun with friends and family over the Easter weekend, I found myself with three studious matters that had to be done; marking assignments for the master's level computer science course, writing the final version of my MHEd thesis (thankfully extended by a couple more weeks), and working on the second assignment for my psych degree. Perhaps unsurprisingly, such a study in Aotearoa New Zealand has a very significant Maori culture component which is mostly new and worthwhile territory for me. Apropos such matters, I've found myself invited and joining a committee for the BPD Community because that's the sort of practical activity I engage in. Their meeting the evening prior was quite an eye-opening event and very informative; far more than my own psych session earlier that day that could have been an email. My strong preference for "quality time" extends to all relationships, personal and professional. I also had an excellent meeting tonight with a new friend and fellow student of psychology, the very clever Larnie, who has some particularly impressive plans and I believe they have the experience, skills, and aptitude to carry them out.
Tomorrow I am giving a presentation to SoFiA at the Carlton North library (corner of Rathdowne at Newry Streets, 7.30pm) on "From Stoicism and Naturalistic Pantheism to Effective Altruism". Whilst I will post a transcript on the Lightbringers site, it is valuable at this stage to give a brief overview. Because as much as the presentation will be a formal advocacy of this position, it is as much an exploration of my own personal journey toward such a model of cognition and behaviour. Some of this I have discussed previously, such as "Is Pantheism an Atheism?", to the Melbourne Atheist Society in August 2016, Pantheism: Beyond Atheism and Theism" presented to SoFiA, Melbourne, in July 2021, and "The Continuum of 'Needs' and 'Wants'" to the Melbourne Agnostics in November 2020. This presentation will note the relevance of Stoicism to contemporary times, and especially its important role in both positive and clinical psychology, an elaboration of the Stoic views of physics, and in particular their contribution to pantheism in general and natural pantheism in particular, and finally an application of Stoicism and natural pantheism to effective altruism.
Tomorrow I am giving a presentation to SoFiA at the Carlton North library (corner of Rathdowne at Newry Streets, 7.30pm) on "From Stoicism and Naturalistic Pantheism to Effective Altruism". Whilst I will post a transcript on the Lightbringers site, it is valuable at this stage to give a brief overview. Because as much as the presentation will be a formal advocacy of this position, it is as much an exploration of my own personal journey toward such a model of cognition and behaviour. Some of this I have discussed previously, such as "Is Pantheism an Atheism?", to the Melbourne Atheist Society in August 2016, Pantheism: Beyond Atheism and Theism" presented to SoFiA, Melbourne, in July 2021, and "The Continuum of 'Needs' and 'Wants'" to the Melbourne Agnostics in November 2020. This presentation will note the relevance of Stoicism to contemporary times, and especially its important role in both positive and clinical psychology, an elaboration of the Stoic views of physics, and in particular their contribution to pantheism in general and natural pantheism in particular, and finally an application of Stoicism and natural pantheism to effective altruism.
