what is an intellectual experience? is it something mental or is it something that u did and u reflect on it?

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I have to write a essay and it is asking me to tell them about an intellectual experience that has mattered most to you...what does this even mean....my thoughts about something or an experience from class???

Are they talking about mental experience or a physical one, or something that causes thought because of an event or something like that...please help me out this is confusing

Answer 1

Like any other experience, it is about personal growth -- a "Eureka!" moment, or a project -- after which your view of the universe expanded or your insight on a subject changed.

Answer 2

Intellectual Experience

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what is an intellectual experience? is it something mental or is it something that u did and u reflect on it?
I have to write a essay and it is asking me to tell them about an intellectual experience that has mattered most to you...what does this even mean....my thoughts about something or an experience from class???

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People sometimes consider me to be negative. And in areas where I feel there is a lot of injustice I am very negative. I am negative because injustice makes me angry. Other times I am seen as negative because I talk very matter-of-fact-ly about things that other people talk about very delicately. If I say for example that telling your children that god is reading their thoughts and judging them badly whenever they have thoughts he doesn't like is child abuse I'm seen as negative. If I say that murdering a person is immoral and evil people just take that as just saying it as it is. When people talk about the future and technology and kids and economics I can be very positive. Being that most of the topics raised on this site and others are negative or controversial the answers will reflect that. Being an intellectual I think is beside the point. I know optimistic intellectuals. Although I do see how there could be a correlation. Many psychologists see humanity as being disconnected from their emotions and when they do come to identify with their emotions they experience depression. There are steps after that toward a healthy life filled with genuine optimism and that's what I'm working to get to myself. Point being that if intellectualism could be equated to mental health becoming depressed is one step above the masses. Generally I consider the term "intellectual" to have a negative connotation. I think of how big words and over complicating an issue are often used as an emotional defense. My therapist is very sensitive to people intellectualizing as an emotional defense and something I grew up with which gives me the idea to ask her if she notices any of that in me or any other emotional defenses. I'm surprised I never asked her that before. Sometimes I'm negative because of things in my past. For example when people bring up the law of attraction it reminds me of things within my family that caused me to be treated with condescension and projection. I feel angry just thinking about it. Sometimes I mention that as a contributing factor to the passion that arises, but long answers can be annoying so I try not to be too long. Speaking of which

Answer 5

I haven't seen the exact assignment - but an intellectual experience, as I understand it - is anything that has stimulated contemplation, thought, on a subject.

So of course there is the mental element - but what stimulated that mental/intellectual process. Contemplation? Conversation? a Physical experience? Class?

Anything can constitute an intellectual experience... and I do mean anything - from reading Nietsche to having sex, a conversation, to taking a dump...

Just my .01

-dh

Answer 6

I would say the exercise of working out a problem, solving a puzzle, even playing a game of chess, are all intellectual experiences. Anything that requires attention to detail, analysis, intellect to the subjection of emotional responses. That is, you must put aside the influence of emotion in order to have an intellectual experience. The responses you know you would have in a given situation may be data for a decision-making process, but the process must be in the mind, fore-brain, intellect.