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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Self-Love"”.
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Love's Liberation: The Science of Whole Self-Love
Self-love is a prevalent topic in philosophical and academic literature, as well as contemporary culture. Some view self-love as a beneficial and necessary component to self-actualization, well-being and loving others. However, many in the scientific community associate self-love with narcissism …
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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved
… twenty-five years after the publication of Beloved with A Mercy in 2008. With these two texts, Morrison offers her readers one story that shows the descent into slavery and one that shows progression towards freedom. The purpose of this thesis is to place Morrison’s two neo-slave narratives, …
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The General Will and the Problem of Self-Love: An Analysis of Rousseau's Theory of Citizenship
… will informed by his treatment of the problem of self-love. The central claim of the dissertation is that standard accounts of the general will have neglected both the role and the problematic character of Rousseau's conception of self-love and its relationship to his theory of the general will. …
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Genuine Bonds: Investigating the Ethical Dimensions of Authenticity in Love and Friendship
… aspects of identity. The second chapter, “On Self-Destruction, Authentic Expression, and Love,” explores the classic conflict between well-being and respect for autonomy, focusing on self-destructive behavior in intimate relationships. I argue that we can respect our loved one’s authentic …
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Human Rights in Turkey: A Comparative Perpsective on Violation and Resolution
… natural law, a theoretical framework of economic self-interest and an emotional 'social imagination' is constructed. Being a contemporary variation on Adam Smith's understanding of self-love and sympathy, this theory develops a ‘world economy’ based view of ‘cosmopolitan responsibility’ for the …
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Plato’s Lysis and Aristotle’s Notion of Friendship
… four central questions: who is the friend—the lover or the beloved? Are friends alike or unlike? Are friends good or bad people? And what is the deep ground of loving friends? Although Socrates leaves each of these issues in aporia, Aristotle’s account of friendship offers systematic and …
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Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?
… of life for Black women to emulate, focused on self-care and self-love. I write about its popularity and meaning, with parallels to my own life and mental health in order to define if this term is actually an attainable state of being or is more of an aspiration. I also paralleled the marriage …
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Cry Wolf
… IX report about this dilemma, and Red cloaks herself in the wolf’s skin. The final portion of the collection, entitled “Red’s Home,” gives the audience a view of the speaker's self-love as they maintain it through trauma. This section also introduces another, more welcome, significant other who …
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Patches: The EP and Text
Self-reflection can aid in unpacking the complex layers of navigating the intersectionalities of identities. By exploring these layers, we gain a deeper understanding of the societal structures that influence our lives and find ways to navigate them. This creative project, created imperfectly over …
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A phenomenological enquiry into the experience of western women who found a significant other after a course of psychotherapy
… transcripts, with fifteen associated themes: 1. Self-Love and four associated themes. The results point towards marked and varied changes in feelings towards oneself. 2. Self-Awareness and four associated themes. The results show a new understanding of the participants’ worldview. 3. Sense of …
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"Loving me and My Butterfly Wings:" A Study of Hip-Hop Songs Written by Adolescents in Music Therapy
… Songs of Abandonment, and Songs of Faith and Love. Each category reflects a different stage of developmental growth for the songwriters. Employing Fowler's (1981/1995) stages of faith development, a music-centered developmental model of therapeutic songwriting with adolescents is proposed in …
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John Donne'S Misogyny
… in this thesis: "The Broken Heart," "Confined Love," "Love's Alchemy," "Lovers' Infiniteness," "The Paradox," "Self-Love," "Song [Go and Catch a Falling Star]," "To His Mistress, Going to Bed," "The Triple Fool," "Twicknam Garden," and "Woman's Constancy." These lyrics have been chosen because …
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Natural teleology and Kant’s duties to oneself as an animal being
… claim that there is a category of duties to oneself, known as the duties to oneself as animal beings, that is based in the natural teleology of the natural appetites (self-love, the desire for sex, and the desire for food). Commentators, rightly puzzled by these claims, have said that any appeal …
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LEVITY
… where language, ends (within the depths of ink itself—into the heartbeat drum of an unconscious poet as she hurls herself back into being), <em>Levity</em> represents a revelatory poetic response to the gravity of tragedy, making beauty out of coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and …
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Vera o falsa riga dantesca del pensiero poetico leopardiano verso il termine dello Zibaldone
… his poetry as the activity of a penman to whom Love dictates. While assumed as a cornerstone of Leopardi's conception of poetry, the Dantean apophthegm – «I' mi son un che quando Amor mi spira noto» (One am I, who, whenever Love doth inspire me, note) – is deliberately and significantly altered, …
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The garden house
The Garden House is a collection of poems on love, loss, and toads. Three main sections explore the primary speaker’s journey through “The Real World,” “Frog Fortunes + Toad Tellings,” and “Garden House.” “The Real World” acts as an introduction to the speaker’s family and experiences. It …
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Geography of Heart: Home and Belonging in the light of Adult and Community Education
… community education. Being an adult educator myself, it made sense to use adult education as the setting for my research; however, firstly, adult education is concerned with issues of belonging – particularly regarding community education which offers an opportunity to look at claims of whether …
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Will-Independent Mereological Trinity Monotheism: A Defense of the Logical Coherence of, A Priori Motivation for, and a Particular Model Concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity
… argument for the Trinity based on the concept of love. If God is the Greatest Conceivable Being, it is argued that God must possess the great-making property of love to a maximal degree. It is argued that only a being who efficiently and essentially engages in all four aspects of love—self-love, …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… the law must be painful from the perspective of self-love, but pleasurable from the perspective of practical reason, Kant is able to show how our desires can acquire normative direction. On my reading, then, the theory of moral sensibility we find in the second Critique addresses a rather …
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