Date of Award
1959
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
American Academy of Asian Studies
First Advisor
Haridas Chaudhuri
First Committee Member
Kazumitsu Kato
Second Committee Member
Lloyd Saxtor
Third Committee Member
Frederic Spiegelberg
Fourth Committee Member
Ved Vrat
Abstract
What is the psychosocial condition of Western man? What has happened to Apollonian man, characterized by order, harmony and leisure? Why has the ideal or Apollonian man (so well described by Nietzsche and Spengler) given way to Dionysian man ... Faustian man? Whence has gone the Apollonian safeguard, essential to measure, constraint, health and love?
How really sick is Western man? Why is he not at peace with himself, his family, his associates, people in other countries who may have political philosophies different from his own ... nay, with God? An inventory of the concrete condition of Western man may perhaps be appreciated by surveying some of the high points in his current psychosocial predicament. Some of the more critical areas in the human condition of Faustian man in the latter half of the twentieth century are briefly explored in the present chapter, prior to a consideration of some salutary ways to mental health ... both West and East.
Pages
185
Recommended Citation
Melody, George F.. (1959). Ways to Mental Health: West and East. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3863
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