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Agreeableness in Aquinas. Dr. Green. 3 types of appetites. Arising from no apprehension in the subject Natural appetite Arising from apprehension in the subject Arising from an apprehension of the senses Arising from an apprehension of the intellect. Three Parts of the Brain.
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Agreeableness in Aquinas Dr. Green
3 types of appetites • Arising from no apprehension in the subject • Natural appetite • Arising from apprehension in the subject • Arising from an apprehension of the senses • Arising from an apprehension of the intellect
Three Parts of the Brain • These three types of appetites correspond to the three evolutionary levels of human existence • Reptilian • Mammalian • Human • Parts of the Brain
Reptilian • Automatic behaviors • Arose in environments with small uncertainty • Ancient, arose 500 million years ago • Basic Model • Stimulus-response • Does not learn from experience • Without awareness
Reptilian • Repeating the same behaviors over and over again—rigid • Imitation • Survival, mating, feeding, self-maintenance, autonomic functions, body temperaturestay alive and spread genesautomatic when triggered by images
Reptilian • Behaviors • Aggression • Dominance • Greed • Reproduction • Territoriality • Rage • power/social status • food triggers • Sex, possession, domination
Mammalian • Learned Responses • Arose in environments with much more uncertainty, night • Hippocampus for retaining memories • Amygdala for emotion –processing of sensations • Basic Model • Stimuli—apprehension and evaluation—appetite—behavior • Emotional processing is central for survival • Emotions are uncertainty management tools
Mammalian • Valence—whether you feel positive or negative toward something • Salience—what gets your attention • Connects information to memory • Learning by pleasure and pain • Uses emotionally charged coded • Modifies and rearranges reptilian aspects
Humans • More complex learning and manipulation • Arose under very uncertain environment • Pleistocene climatic fluctuations • Hemispheric specialization with corpus callosum • Left hemisphere is verbal and logical • Right hemisphere is imagistic and emotional • Basic model • Stimuli—mammalian processing—intellectual processing—appetite—behavior • Primary function of the pre-frontal cortex is to inhibit actions • Self-control
Basis or Cause of Agreeableness • Creates and maintains boundaries • “Connaturalness” • “Complacency” • “Akin and proportional” • “Likeness”
Two Types of Agreeableness • Things—love of concupiscence • People—love of friendship • Friendship of identification • With oneself • With another, who becomes another self • Friendship of usefulness • Friendship of pleasure
Other Effects of Love • When beloved is present • Melting—drop your guard • Enjoyment in the presence of the beloved • When beloved is absent • Languor—sadness at its absence • Fervor—desire to possess