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Showing 1 to 20 of 319 for “"Human being"”.
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Religious experience of the destined human being
… fitting the above description of "destined human beings" were studied as far as possible from their own work, i.e. writings, paintings, music, speeches, letters, etc. They were studied on two levels, that of their own metier, and then how they retained that holistic quality which enabled …
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One Is Concerned Because One Is A Human Being
I am a nomad. I have not had a place to call home in almost two decades. I wander around the world searching for a place to belong, only to discover the forgotten lives and silenced voices. I have come to realize that to find a "home," I need to first create a world in which to belong to. My recent …
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Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being
… about what it means to be a human person. The loss of self as it occurs in AD narratives functions most effectively in reasserting the presence of the human self, in contrast to an anonymous, inhuman nonself; as AD discourse details a loss of self, it necessarily follows that …
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The changing construction of the human being in medical discourse concerning melancholy
… the ways physicians envisioned the nature of the human being. In order to narrow the scope of this study, this thesis will focus on a particular ailment, melancholy. Melancholy was considered a disorder which affected all parts of a human being, however his or her components were subdivided. Thus, …
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Object, standpoint, and partial truth: Sartre, Heidegger, and Hegel on consciousness, human being, and the absolute
… acknowledge at the same time that the theories being rejected contain philosophically interesting truth about x (philosophers will typically say things like: “Theory θ gets things wrong about x, but there’s a grain of truth (about x) in it,” “Philosopher Φ is mistaken about x, but he’s on to …
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A visual and theoretical interpretation of sculpted paper as metaphor for the fragility and vulnerability of the human being
… for the fragility and vulnerability of the human being. This research focused on child abuse and gender inequality. Research on this theme is of topical value as it is a countrywide, as well as a worldwide phenomenon. This research was undertaken through a literature review, by analysis of …
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WITHIN THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: SARAH FARMER, HER LIFE, HER WORK, AND HER SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL TRUTH
<p>This dissertation considers Sarah Farmer (1847-1916), the founder of the Greenacre Summer Conferences. Beginning in 1894 and continuing through 1916, Sarah Farmer hosted a program of lectures and classes intended as a continuation of the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago the year …
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“There is a human being there”: A critical pedagogic approach to shift perceptions of patient worthiness in South Africa
… patients from the general population justify dehumanizing actions that harm socially marginalized patients, maintain social and institutional hierarchies, and preserve the unequal status quo. Shifting perceptions of socially marginalized people from stereotypic characters to dynamic individuals …
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‘It’s not just about lock and key, it’s about you as a human being': treating the person before the personality disorder in prison
There continues to be an over-representation of female offenders diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) within UK prisons (Sansone & Sansone, 2009). Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) has shown effectiveness in managing the symptomatology of BPD and has been adapted for a forensic …
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Toward a Holistic Interdisciplinary Model of Human Being: a Hebraic-Christian Perspective of the Human Observer and its Beneficial Impact on the Theology-and-Science Dialogue, Society, and the Environment
… ground in a Hebraic-Christian concept of human being for building fruitful theology-and-science dialogue that is sensitive to the physical (natural sciences), moral (philosophy and social sciences), and spiritual (theology) attributes of human being.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>To aid me in the …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
This essay is concerned with the position of theatre as cultural commerce in the postmodern milieu of electronic broadcast media. It is the partial fulfillment of an MA degree in Theatre Making as studied from a performer's perspective. The other part of my final project was comprised by the 2000 …
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Creation in the Image of God: Human Uniqueness From the Akan Religious Anthropology to the Renewal of Christian Anthropology
… belief, based on the bible, is that "God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them" (Gen. 1: 27). This dissertation explores the Akan understanding of the human person to shed further light on creation of human beings in the image of God …
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Wilhelm Reich e a bússola do pensamento funcional
… in states of disease or health. The living human being can function in energetic motility. The functional thinking is the human being in energetic motility thinking. It gathers intuition and logics of reasoning. Intuition consists in the coutact with sensoriality. The logic of reasoning of …
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Peeling the Body. How can art practice utilize the experience of medical events to consider the implications for the living human being of notions of the posthuman? How can this process affect an understanding of the positions of the subject / medical object within the western medical tradition and, in so doing, suggest a more empowered subject?
… this body in terms of the literal posthuman associated with Moravec, alongside the theoretical posthuman associated with Hayles where the 'defining characteristics involve the construction of subjectivity'. Using action research as the methodology and video installation as practice the …
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Oedipus Rex: metaphysics and the fundamental human struggle
<p>The fundamental human struggle is a spiritual struggle demonstrated by a metaphysical analysis of the drama <em>Oedipus Rex</em>. Drama presents a mimesis of human action and dramatic plots are comprised of these physical actions. This fundamental dramatic action consists of the embodied action …
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Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
… and art in Aristotle’s classic conception of the human being, and argues that the work of T.W. Adorno can be drawn upon to recover this conception’s neglected promise. By reading Aristotle’s oft-cited claim that ‘the human being is by nature a political animal’ in light of his works on biology and …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… (1525), his powerful polemic against the leading Humanist of his day, Erasmus, who had criticized Luther in his De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio / The Freedom of the Will (1524). Luther’s The Bondage of the Will is regarded as a work representing the organic unity of his entire …
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Chalcedonian Anthropology: A Proposal for the Extension of Christ’s Person-Nature Constitution
… dissertation presents a person-nature model of humanity. Chapter 1 introduces and analyzes the current debate in anthropology between models grounded in a dualist versus a physicalist understanding of the human soul and body. The debate, and its identification of person with the soul or human …
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