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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Asian philosophy"”.
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
… phenomenology; and his relationship to Asian philosophy. Howe utilized existential phenomenology and Asian philosophy to elucidate the nature of his ambivalence as well as to critique the doctrinaire approach of many analytically oriented psychotherapists of his day. Moreover, Howe took …
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A Performance Guide to Etüden für Flöte(n) solo by Isang Yun
… musical language that synthesized Far East Asian philosophy, especially Chinese Taoism, with Western techniques and Korean traditional instrumental idioms. Isang Yun left more that 100 works, including twelve works that feature the flute. This essay will discuss Yun’s five Etüden für …
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Placing nothingness: An investigation of cross-cultural philosophical encounters centred on the architecture of courtyards
Nothingness or void is a key concept in East Asian philosophy. For the ancient Chinese it permeated every aspect of culture and was integral with senses of being rather than a quality antithetical to being as such. Key in this study is the manner through which traditional Chinese courtyard …
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The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian
… a medical vernacular to the larger objectives of philosophy. And, in a parallel context, the Zhuangzi offers its philosophical musings by drawing on a well-instituted tradition of self-cultivation that itself emerges from the intersections of medical and philosophical texts. My dissertation takes …
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Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being
Film Here Now investigates the relationship between filmmaking and well-being with two specific aims: to illuminate how and why the process of making films inflicts stress on the filmmaker, and to determine what can be done within this process to prioritize the filmmaker’s well-being. My empirical …
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Speech and Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Traditional Chinese Scholarship
An authentic introduction to the scholarship of traditional China must proceed through an uprooting of the ideological obstacles or peculiarly modern biases ordinarily preventing us from understanding writers of the pre-modern past as they understood themselves. As the upshot of the unfolding of …
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Balancing Multiple Worlds: The Multiverse and the Fractured Asian American Experience in <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em> (2022)
… typical story about a multi-generational Asian American family. This thesis argues that the film uses its characters as vehicles to not only illustrate the multilayered nature of Asian American realities through the allegory of “auto verse-jumping” across the multiverse, but also to …