| Belief System |
Examples |
Major
Works |
Human
Nature |
Our Dilemma |
Solution |
| Theism |
Christianity |
The Bible |
Created in God's Image- animal and spiritual being. |
Sin-Man's disobedience has caused a fallen world and
separation from God. |
Accepting God's provision for sin, Jesus Christ, and
receiving forgiveness. |
| Behaviorism |
B.F. Skinner |
Walden Two; Beyond Freedom and Dignity |
Evolved- animal totally conditioned by environment |
Man is not free to act but will not admit it. |
Allow planners to construct perfect society. |
| Collectivism |
Karl Marx |
Communist Manifesto;
Das Kapital |
Evolved- animal conditioned by environment |
Capitalism and its resulting alienation. |
Replace capitalism with socialism and eventually communism. |
| Existentialism |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
Being and Nothingness |
Evolved- animal without essence. |
Man is a prisoner of his total freedom in the face of
an absurd existence. |
Make authentic choices in the face of meaninglessness. |
| Humanistic Psychology |
Abraham Maslow |
Toward a Psychology of Being |
Evolved - animal who can become self-actualized |
Society holds people back from becoming self-actualized |
Re-arrange society to enable self-actualization |
| Trans-personal Psychology |
Gerald G. Jampolsky |
Teach Only Love |
Evolved-both in a physical sense and a spiritual sense |
We have forgotten our oneness with the Self of the universe. |
Go through a transformational process via meditation
or some other method. |
| Sociobiology |
Edward O. Wilson |
On Human Nature |
Evolved-animal completely controlled by genetic make-up |
We cling to ideas that fit a previous era (Ice-age hunter
gatherers) in our evolutionary journey |
Social policy needs to take into account the genetic
roots of behavior and begin to design our future genetic foundations. |
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