TY - GEN ID - cogprints384 UR - http://cogprints.org/384/ A1 - Valent, Paul Y1 - 1998/// N2 - The aim of this paper is to present a new synthetic perspective. The synthesis includes observations from a number of disciplines such as physiology, medicine psychiatry, and traumatology, underpinned by evolutionary biology. The framework, it is suggested, can help to reexamine and clarify important philosophical questions. They include old and new dichotomies such as those of mind-body, scientific-humanist, reductionist-whole, and linear-non-linear. Further, the framework affords perhaps for the first time, a logical basis for, and initial heuristic categorizations of specifically human qualities including emotions, morality, values, meanings and purpose. An innate language may parallel the logical base and categorizations. The perspective has practical clinical applications, but perhaps more importantly, it contributes to an overall view of humans. PB - Brunner/Mazel, Philadelphia KW - evolution KW - emotions KW - physiological responses KW - trauma KW - sociobiology KW - biopsychosocial KW - stress KW - illnesses KW - strain KW - fulfillment KW - happiness KW - unhappiness KW - ethics KW - morals KW - principles KW - meanings KW - wisdom KW - social responses KW - appraisals KW - survival survival strategies KW - strategies of survival KW - fight KW - flight KW - rescue KW - attachment KW - grief KW - loss KW - adaptation KW - competition KW - struggle KW - cooperation KW - love KW - murder KW - wickedness TI - A New Synthetic Framework; The Wholist Perspective SP - 1 AV - public EP - 205 ER -