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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Self (Philosophy)"”.
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
<p>Philosophy of communication replaces modernity's metanarrative of progress with postmodernity's many works in progress. The metanarrative of postmodernity is fragmentation, the lack of a metanarrative. In postmodernity, progress sputters and stalls, then starts on new paths. Philosophy of …
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Anatomies of Affect: An Examination of Emotions as Processes
… half, implications of the process view for self-knowledge and evaluative attitudes are considered, the regulatory features of emotions are described, and conclusions are drawn regarding first- and third-person epistemic authority on emotional states. I examine how introspection can come in …
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The Experienced Self and Other Scale: A technique for assaying the experience of one's self in relation to the other
… tests the construct validity of the Experienced Self and Other Scale (E-SOS), which is a self report measure that assesses the experience of one's self in relation to others. Statistical analyses were conducted using Exploratory factor analysis with an orthogonal rotation, and Confirmatory factor …
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Poststructural Explorations into Relations among Self, Language, Reader Response Theories: (Im)possibilities of Autobiographical Inquiry
This dissertation explores relations between self and language in the light of Derrida's critique of the traditionally and historically constructed idea of writing and speaking as communication. Further, this dissertation inquires into relations between self and language among reader-response …
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Descartes' Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
… argue that Descartes arrives at his account of self-knowledge by grappling with skepticism about introspection. As I interpret him, Descartes has his meditator attempt to undermine introspection so that he can replace his former beliefs about his mind's nature and activities with an account of …
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The concept of eternity in Kierkegaard's philosophical anthropology.
… spiritual, embodied beings with the capacity for self-consciousness, a God relationship, freedom, everlasting life, and communal fellowship with other persons. Second, the eternal is present both ontologically and normatively in human beings, providing an unchanging criterion and telos of human …
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Kierkegaardian intersubjectivity and the question of ethics and responsibility
… By Kevin Krumrei. Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy are generally admitted and recognized as valuable in the history of Western philosophy, both as one of the great anti-Hegelians, as the founder (arguably) of existentialism, and as a religious thinker. However valid this may be, there is …
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Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte and Heidegger
Kant once said that the "whole field of philosophy" is guided by the fundamental question, "What is the human being?" Kant himself, and even more so his Idealist successors, addressed this question by offering transcendental theories of human subjectivity. My dissertation explores the philosophical …
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Toward an Anarchist Theory of Self: Wilderness, Actualization and Authority
… autonomous nature of an optimally functioning self. Utilizing Abraham Maslows hierarchy of needs model, Leonard Martins ID compensation theory, fundamental principles of anarchist theory and environmental feedback paradigms it has been shown that time spent during backpacking experiences in the …
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Iris Murdoch's genealogy of the modern self : retrieving consciousness beyond the linguistic turn.
In this dissertation I argue that Murdoch's philosophical-ethical project is best understood as an anti-Enlightenment genealogical narrative. I maintain that her work consistently displays four fundamental features that typify genealogical accounts: 1) liberation (i.e., subversion) from a dominant …
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The Search for the Self-Existent in the Poetry of Charles Olson
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