Definitions from Wiktionary (philocaly)

▸ noun:  The love of beauty.
▸ noun:  Meaning in use: focused on things that should be loved. For example, philocaly is the virtue of prioritizing profoundly important things over lush, hedonistic things (i.e., "Participant chose the safety of a child over the immediate satisfaction of a chocolate bar."
▸ noun:  Concept often seen in Relational Frame Theory/Training/Therapy (RFT) to mean putting longterm goals ahead of short-term goals, as a demonstration of an organism's capacity to do rule-governed behavior.
▸ noun:  Concept often seen in Radical Behaviorism to refer to putting community needs ahead of direct needs. Usage example, "A Skinnerian explanation of an adult facing danger to save a child or people going to war rather than tolerating tyranny, is a mixture of natural endowments and a history of verbal reinforcement of contingencies that put remote reinforcers ahead of direct personal safety, resulting in valuing biological mechanisms capable of overriding innate personal-survival mechanisms."




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