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"Love and Death" Self-Quiz
Dan Moller
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Empirical research in loss shows that . . .
People recover quicker from the loss of a loved one than is often presumed
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Most people dont even feel an initial sense of grief
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No generalizations can be made about how people respond to loss
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Most people never fully recover after losing a loved one
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Why might someone take our resilience to loss to indicate a lack of care, according to Moller?
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Because if you care about something, you think it is important
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Because were often right when we imagine the loss of something that matters will cause us prolonged suffering
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Because one indication that one cares about something is that one suffers deeply at its loss
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Which of the following best characterizes what Moller calls the extreme view?
The common view that one never recovers from the loss of a loved one
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The view that our resilience in the face of loss indicates things arent as important as they seem
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The view that we dont care about anything, because were resilient about the loss of everything
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The view that our resilience indicates that we dont actually care about our relationships
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What does Moller mean by importance?
Moller means it has infinite Kantian worth
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Moller means that something cant be replaced, and its absence makes a large difference
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Moller means that something is fungible
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Moller means that somethings loss is the kind of thing we cant recover from
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For Moller . . .
Emotions just get in our way
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Emotions are an important way we perceive value
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Emotions hinder us from seeing things clearly
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Emotions arent as important as theyve traditionally been thought to be
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Moller suggests that we are more resilient to loss than we often think.
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Moller holds that being resilient to loss means that we dont care about what we lost.
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Moller holds that we are unable to care about anything because of our emotional adaptability.
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