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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Good Life"”.
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Cynicism and narcissism: masking the good life?
<p>"Gratitude is a virtue capable of conferring a constellation of benefits. Research on gratitude has mostly focused on these benefits, but in understanding the construct fully an examination of moderating factors and inhibitors is important. A recent study, utilizing a prospective design, …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
<p>This dissertation examines the relationship between architecture and democratic politics in late-modernity. It identifies the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures of 20th century High Modernism and the scant attention that the …
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The Good Life: Weakness in the Survival Years
… “Leftish” writers was bereft of the creative, life-building activity that had marked the revolutionary realisms of the past decades. It was underwritten with anguish about the perceived foreclosure of unity between political and aesthetic action from within the total entanglement of both World …
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Laboring Lesbians at Gas Stations: Pumping the "Good Life"
<p>This dissertation project is an interdisciplinary exploration of laboring lesbian bodies within the context of U.S. gas stations. I begin with an investigation of the history of gas stations in connection with the oil industry and the company for which they work. In addition, I examine how …
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Conceptualizing a vision of the good life among mid-career faculty.
… how mid-career faculty defined and pursued the good life and what they perceived as helping or hindering that quest. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory within a critical realist ontology, the research sought to uncover the conceptual structures and generative mechanisms that shaped …
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Toward a Good Life in Later Life: Perspectives, Problems, and Responses
… population. What will the experiences of later life be like for this group of people? In order to answer this question, one must consider different perspectives on what it means to age <i>well</i>. One influential definition of aging well is Rowe and Kahn's concept of "successful aging," …
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Dispassion and the Good Life: A Study of Stoicism and Zhuangism
<p>Although the notion of dispassion has played an important role in many different traditions, such as Stoicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and eastern Christianity, it does not seem to hold much appeal to people today. To the modern ear, dispassion is often associated with apathy, which refers to a lack …
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Conceptualizing a vision of the good life among mid-career faculty.
… how mid-career faculty defined and pursued the good life and what they perceived as helping or hindering that quest. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory within a critical realist ontology, the research sought to uncover the conceptual structures and generative mechanisms that shaped …
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Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Good Life: On the Very Possibility of Autistic Thriving
Autism is typically framed as stemming from empathy deficits as well as more general cognitive and sensory issues. In turn it is further associated with other purported harms: ranging from psychological suffering to diminished moral agency. Given such associations, in the philosophical literature, …
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The Audacity of Happiness: The Good Life for People in Recovery from Opiate Addiction
This dissertation focuses on what the good life means to help-seekers and workers at an NGO in Northern Nevada that has served the community for more than two decades, which I will name Life. At Life, nurses, counselors, psychologists, medical doctors and former substance users work together …
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Eudaimonia: Utilizing Aristotle's Good Life to Inform Organizational Communication to Reimagine Human Resources Management
… Aristotle’s concept of eudaimonia, or the good life, as a means to inform organizational communication in order to reimagine human resource management. The project begins by laying bare the current paradigm of egoism/altruism as the inappropriately accepted method to interpret …
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Feeling Time Differently: Autistic Temporality, Self-Care Technologies & Social Imaginaries of the Good Life
… by conceptualising autism as a form of life that Ian Hacking describes, wherein autistic temporality represents an alternative mode of being – one shaped by a misalignment between the autistic body’s rhythms, embodiment, and intersubjective connectedness within a predominantly …
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The Structure of Cultural Orientations to the Good Life and their Expression in Personal Narratives
… are trying to live. The narrative visions of a good life that are dominant in a society thus represent an important aspect of cultural orientation. To gain insight into the form and function of these visions, two studies were conducted. In Study 1, the various criteria by which people judge …
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Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Good Life: From the Fall to Human Perfectibility
This thesis is a comparative exploration of the good life from the perspectives of Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas.<br/>By sketching a broadly characterized Aristotelian view of the good life and noting the common structure that their accounts share with their ancient philosophical forebear, we …
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Emigrating to the good life: A qualitative study of gender and ethnic diversity of graduate women
This research addressed three major questions regarding the perceptions and interpretations of the lived experiences of 13 graduate women in master's and doctoral programs at a major midwestern research university: (a) How do these graduate women perceive and interpret their epiphanal experiences …
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The Unknown Life of the Philosopher: The Significance of Biography for the Pursuit of the Good Life
… philosophers of ethics – How can one pursue the good and well lived life? A life which is fully satisfying, but not forced and restricting. With many theories and philosophical schools being established all trying to create theories which will guide others on how they can pursue a good life. The …
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Generating and Maintaining Confianza: Living a "Good" Life Amidst Violence, Insecurity, and Mistrust in Rural El Salvador
… Robbins (2013a) calls the Anthropology of the Good, I suggest that through careful analysis of emic considerations of modern-day violence, the ways in which Salvadorans strive to relate to one another and live ethical lives amidst violence can become foregrounded in the wider anthropological …
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"Life is good. Life is what you make it" The significance of a third place: an ethnography of Masters swimming.
… the meeting point or “Third place”, active lifestyles, ageing, serious leisure and exercising to excess. The key message emerging from the data highlighted the complexities of a relatively small locale. The findings concluded that older swimmers benefitted from being part of a social world, …
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Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
This is a cross-national qualitative study with the purpose of obtaining perspectives held by people with quadriplegia and leading figures in disability movements in the Netherlands and Australia on the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS). A disability voice is not prominent …
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The pursuit of a good life in a developing place: a human-centred study among vulnerable migrants in São Paulo-Brazil
This thesis deals with the perceptions of migrants facing vulnerability about the changes in their lives after migrating to a developing context, especially in terms of their agency, fundamental rights and cultural liberty. It emphasises the need to focus more on the impacts of migration on the …
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