How to know a person: Ch2

Chapter 2

• combust: comsumed by fire, 연소하다

• proclivity: a tendency to choose or do something regulary.

  • But most of us have all sorts of inborn proclivities that prevent us from perceiving others accurately.

• Persona: 개인이 사회생활 속에서 사람들로부터 비난받지 않기 위해 겉으로 드러내는, 자신의 본성과는 다른 태도나 성격. 사회의 규범과 관습을 내면화한 것임.

  • Mourning Papa became her profession, her identity, her persona

• Mesmerizing: 매혹적인 hold the attention of someone to the exlusion of all else

  • Vivian spent her adult years trying to win some measure of inependence from this dominating, difficult, and throughly mesmerizing mother.

  • She was uncannily smart and empathetic, with a mesmerizing wild streak.

Give a deep understanding of human nautre, or each human being.

• Brief summary of ch 2: don't be a diminisher who don't really care about other people's feeling, thought or exsistence.

Chapter 3

• Wart:사마귀

• tenderness: 다정함

  • Tenderness is deep emotional concern about another being.

  • He gave her a tender look.

  • She was tender and loving with her new child.

• biblical: related to bible

  • In the biblical world, "knowing" is also a whole body expereicne.

• stingy: 구두쇠인

  • He is stingy

• A holistic attitude:: see them as a whole

• espitemology: 지식에 대한 제반 사항을 다루는 철학의 한 분야로서 지식의 본질, 신념의 합리성과 정당성 등을 연구한다. 고대 그리스어의 episteme(지식 또는 인식)와 logos(이론)을 합친 데에서 비롯하였다. what do people know, how do we know what we know?

• hedonist: pleasant seeker lol