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    Who Am I--How Did I Choose My Identity: Our Human Values, #2
    How Values Develop: Our Human Values, #1
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    Our Human Values Series

    By Dr. Bob O'Connor and Bob O'Connor

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    About this series

    This volume explores how we, and others, develop our identities--our self-concepts. People develop their identities in various ways--sometimes thinking them through, sometimes accepting our ideas from authority _like parents or preachers--, sometimes using verifiable evidence, and sometimes from our mental illnesses. To understand how we think and how to solve the world's problems. While Volume I dealt with exploring the basic assumptions or how and why we think, this volume adds the reality of how we think about ourselves and how others think. The next volume will discuss a number of national and international problems and questions. The discussion of these problems cannot be thoroughly understood without understanding the various assumptions and identities of the participants of a discussion. Did your evidence come from QAnon, the Pope, or a scientist who is an authority on the subject? To think clearly, one must understand the most basic levels of human thinking. It's convenient to believe whatever sounds simple or popular with your friends. It's intelligent to base your thinking on the most verifiable facts. Should we really think--or just fake it?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTotal Health Publications
    Release dateJun 15, 2021
    Who Am I--How Did I Choose My Identity: Our Human Values, #2
    How Values Develop: Our Human Values, #1

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      How Values Develop: Our Human Values, #1
      How Values Develop: Our Human Values, #1

      How Values Develop: Our Human Values, #1

      Bob O'Connor
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      WHY THIS SERIES? The original idea was to make people aware of the underlying assumptions and varying reasons that we use to make the value decisions that we do. We usually think that we have very good reasons for what we believe and do. People's thinking and actions will always begin with a non-provable basic assumption, as primary: one's self, one's God, or one's idea of a better society. Next, it will depend on the evidence that we use to validate our assumptions. However, often the reasons we give are rationalizations for non-thinking reactions that we have made. I began with writing what is now Volume 3--examining a number of individual and  social problems from the points of view of the three basic assumptions, then applying evidence to each that could make each have value (be moral) or not have value (be immoral). Then I realized that I needed to provide much more information on how our basic assumptions develop. Philosophers usually assume, or at least hope, that we think our way into our beliefs. However, my background in psychology, and my studies of genetics and epigenetics, have enlarged my philosophic comprehension and interest. Consequently, it became obvious that two more volumes would be needed to clarify the structure of Volume 3. Volume I (Our Human Values-- How They Develop) examines each basic assumption along with its possible origins from self-centered (genetic, epigenetic, intra-uterine, infancy through maturity--including both conscious and unconscious factors), through God-based assumptions (philosophy of religion and comparative theologies), to society-based assumptions (obstacles to utopia, liberty versus equality, and various concerns with modern democracies). Volume II (Our Human Values--Values, Identities and Society) surveys the various sources of evidence one might use in validating one's ideas. It briefly touches logic, logical fallacies, and spends some time on identities and how often, especially today, people use faulty evidence to construct their identities or how their identities seek out, and only believe, evidence that validates what they hope is true. Volume III briefly analyzes a number of individual and social problems such as: abortion, capital punishment, Black Lives Matter, eugenics, and human rights--and shows how each can have value, or not have value, when using each of the basic assumptions, depending on which evidence is selected to validate the assumption.

      WHY THIS SERIES? The original idea was to make people aware of the underlying assumptions and varying reasons that we use to make the value decisions that we do. We usually think that we have very good reasons for what we believe and do. People's thinking and actions will always begin with a non-provable basic assumption, as primary: one's self, one's God, or one's idea of a better society. Next, it will depend on the evidence that we use to validate our assumptions. However, often the reasons we give are rationalizations for non-thinking reactions that we have made. I began with writing what is now Volume 3--examining a number of individual and  social problems from the points of view of the three basic assumptions, then applying evidence to each that could make each have value (be moral) or not have value (be immoral). Then I realized that I needed to provide much more information on how our basic assumptions develop. Philosophers usually assume, or at least hope, that we think our way into our beliefs. However, my background in psychology, and my studies of genetics and epigenetics, have enlarged my philosophic comprehension and interest. Consequently, it became obvious that two more volumes would be needed to clarify the structure of Volume 3. Volume I (Our Human Values-- How They Develop) examines each basic assumption along with its possible origins from self-centered (genetic, epigenetic, intra-uterine, infancy through maturity--including both conscious and unconscious factors), through God-based assumptions (philosophy of religion and comparative theologies), to society-based assumptions (obstacles to utopia, liberty versus equality, and various concerns with modern democracies). Volume II (Our Human Values--Values, Identities and Society) surveys the various sources of evidence one might use in validating one's ideas. It briefly touches logic, logical fallacies, and spends some time on identities and how often, especially today, people use faulty evidence to construct their identities or how their identities seek out, and only believe, evidence that validates what they hope is true. Volume III briefly analyzes a number of individual and social problems such as: abortion, capital punishment, Black Lives Matter, eugenics, and human rights--and shows how each can have value, or not have value, when using each of the basic assumptions, depending on which evidence is selected to validate the assumption.

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      Who Am I--How Did I Choose My Identity: Our Human Values, #2
      Who Am I--How Did I Choose My Identity: Our Human Values, #2

      Who Am I--How Did I Choose My Identity: Our Human Values, #2

      Dr. Bob O'Connor
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      This volume explores how we, and others, develop our identities--our self-concepts. People develop their identities in various ways--sometimes thinking them through, sometimes accepting our ideas from authority _like parents or preachers--, sometimes using verifiable evidence, and sometimes from our mental illnesses. To understand how we think and how to solve the world's problems. While Volume I dealt with exploring the basic assumptions or how and why we think, this volume adds the reality of how we think about ourselves and how others think. The next volume will discuss a number of national and international problems and questions. The discussion of these problems cannot be thoroughly understood without understanding the various assumptions and identities of the participants of a discussion. Did your evidence come from QAnon, the Pope, or a scientist who is an authority on the subject? To think clearly, one must understand the most basic levels of human thinking. It's convenient to believe whatever sounds simple or popular with your friends. It's intelligent to base your thinking on the most verifiable facts. Should we really think--or just fake it?

      This volume explores how we, and others, develop our identities--our self-concepts. People develop their identities in various ways--sometimes thinking them through, sometimes accepting our ideas from authority _like parents or preachers--, sometimes using verifiable evidence, and sometimes from our mental illnesses. To understand how we think and how to solve the world's problems. While Volume I dealt with exploring the basic assumptions or how and why we think, this volume adds the reality of how we think about ourselves and how others think. The next volume will discuss a number of national and international problems and questions. The discussion of these problems cannot be thoroughly understood without understanding the various assumptions and identities of the participants of a discussion. Did your evidence come from QAnon, the Pope, or a scientist who is an authority on the subject? To think clearly, one must understand the most basic levels of human thinking. It's convenient to believe whatever sounds simple or popular with your friends. It's intelligent to base your thinking on the most verifiable facts. Should we really think--or just fake it?

    Author

    Dr. Bob O'Connor

       Dr. O'Connor is a native of Los Angeles--having grown up in the "ghetto" of South-Central LA. His parents had eighth grade educations. His father died when the author was eight years old. This forced the family onto the welfare rolls while his mother went to school to learn clerical skills.    Dr. O'Connor's university education was at UCLA where he earned a BS and Master's degree and did two years of doctoral level work. He then changed his major and his university, gaining his doctorate at the University of Southern California--in philosophical and social foundations of education.    His interest in travel led to living and teaching in New Zealand, India, Canada and the Netherlands, culminating in a twenty year residence in Norway.    His experience in various cultures has prompted many of the ideas and questions he presents in the book.

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