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Victor Frankl and Paul Ehrlich. Psychology and biology. Ecology of the mind and body. Frankl, sponsored by
the philosophy club, and Ehrlich, a graduate division guest, were speaking from divergent disciplines. Frankl
explored the need in man of purpose, orientation, logical direction. The benign indifference of the existentialist s
universe cultivates the feeling of absurdity; this existential uncertainty, Frankl feels, can damage or desensitize an
individual's feelings for directed behavior. It is when people have lost their behavioral orientation that they feel
most empty. The logical alternative isdiscovering each person's unique purpose, a product of his
unique past and present environment. The ecology of the mind.
Ehrlich spoke for the external viewpoint. If man is to be happy, he must be alive, and to be alive he must reduce
the population of the finite earth, save himself from his own consumption. The ecology of the body.
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