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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"being-in-the-world"”.
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Authenticity as Compassionate Being in the World
<p>This paper will present a thesis on what it means to be authentic in the world and how a person can cultivate an authentic being. I will argue that being authentic leads to a healthier self that lives her life to its fullest potential and how being authentic will result in a more compassionate …
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Being in the world as if there's nothing from the first : a praxis-framework for emergence
Life is an ongoing process of unfolding within a continuum of matter-cognition-semiotics. Evolutionary dynamics and biophysical forces exhibit end-directed (teleonomic) behavior. They increase interconnection over time, integrating antecedent foundational emergent layers into new aggregations, with …
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Be(com)ing we: Pathways to sharing ways of being in the world to support an understanding of Autism
… traditionally been created by people who are not themselves Autistic. Autism is complex and hard to understand, particularly for people who are not Autistic, and dominant discourses tend to pathologise autism. Autistic-created knowledge is recognised as more relevant and less stigmatising. My …
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‘Being-in-the-world’ as a mother - hermeneutic-phenomenological exploration of lived experiences of eight new mothers’ transition to motherhood - within the theoretical frame of ‘four dimensions of existence’
Despite a raft of literature on the transition to motherhood, little research has focused on this as an ontological journey involving all Four Dimensions of Existence (van Deurzen, 1997). The aim of this study was therefore to phenomenologically explore, through semi-structured interviews, the …
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An ontological notion of tradition and education
… as opposed to a sociological one. It is argued in here that while the sociological notion of tradition is a theory regarding the nature of society, and more particularly a theory of social change, the ontological notion of tradition is a theory of man's-being-in-the-world. In other words …
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Shinto: An Experience of Being at Home in the World With Nature and With Others
<p>This study discloses Shinto’s experiential and existential significance and aims to articulate Shinto’s sacred objective. It shows that Shinto, by way of experience, communicates being in the world with nature and with others as a sacred objective. This suggests that Shinto, in communicating its …
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Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time
In the history of Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger is the only philosopher after Plato and Aristotle to have seriously investigated the question of being. Instead of dwelling on particulars as previous philosophers did, Heidegger probes the question of being by investigating the being of the …
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Voices from the Hinterland: lesbian women's experience of Irish health care
There is a lack of knowledge about lesbian women's lives and social experiences in Irish society. Lesbian women's invisibility is reinforced and permeated in all ocial institutions in society such as religion, education and the family. This thesis eals with the nature of being-in-the-world of …
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Therapy-in-the-world: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of accessible self-therapeutic modes of being
… study concerns four women and four men, untrained in psychotherapy, who integrated accessible, low-cost experiences into their lives in ways they described as ‘therapeutic’. These apparently simple experiences – including music, football, silence, long-distance cycling, paddleboarding, …
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Therapy-in-the-world: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of accessible self-therapeutic modes of being
… study concerns four women and four men, untrained in psychotherapy, who integrated accessible, low-cost experiences into their lives in ways they described as ‘therapeutic’. These apparently simple experiences – including music, football, silence, long-distance cycling, paddleboarding, …
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A reading of qi: being in a world of qi in contemporary Melbourne
This thesis begins with the author reflecting on his practice experience, as a traditional acupuncturist, through which the research question is posed. The research represents a kind of cross-cultural encounter whereby the interpenetration of cultures and ideas alerts us to new and different ways …
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Hospitality in Adventure Tourism:: Being, dwelling, guiding
This thesis, through narrating outdoor guiding as hospitality work, brings together two broad areas of academic inquiry – adventure tourism and hospitality studies. Building on existentialist propositions of dwelling as a way of being in the world, more-than-human sociology and a poststructuralist …
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Thrownness, Attunement, Attention: A Heideggerian Account of Responsibility
This thesis argues that Heidegger’s existential analytic of human existence challenges the traditional understanding of responsibility as lying in the power or mastery of the subject. In contrast to secondary literature that attempts to read Heidegger as showing that we take responsibility through …
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Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration of the Emergence of Learning
<p>In this dissertation, drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism (2007), I explore the learning ecology as a “specific material configuration” that produces learning, an emergent, “onto-epistemological” phenomenon of entangled being-knowing. I offer a new materialist approach to the …
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Gadamer's ontology: an examination of Hans-Georg Gadamer's concept of being in relation to Heidegger, Plato and Hegel
An examination of the ontological position on which Hans-Georg Gadamer’s views rely, and of its relationship to the views of Heidegger, Plato and Hegel. I argue that Gadamer’s notion of being appeals to a structure he uses repeatedly in other areas of his philosophy in which the communal …
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Feeling real in fiction : a study of the phenomenological mimesis of givenness in the novel.
In this project, I offer an answer to the deceptively simple-seeming question: how do novels feal real to us? I argue that what makes any novel, whether realistic or fantastic, feel real is the way in which the reader's unfolding of the novel from the text mimetically parallels fundamental aspects …
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Triptych 1
The goal of these three stories is to bear witness to American Christian life in the 21st century, to give weight and texture to the virtues and contradictions of what Cornel West called "the most absurd and alluring mode of being in the world." Borrowing from the traditions of psychological …
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Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed
In support of my thesis project and exhibition, Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed, this paper contextualizes Motherland, a 66” x 66” hand embroidery on Belgian linen that evolved from a growing body of vision drawings, small gouache and graphite compositions sketched …
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Drinking from the Wellspring: An Embodied Inquiry at the Confluence of Ecological Identity, Water, and Wellbeing
This autophenomenographic study was formed at the confluence of diverse sources: existing literature and poetry, and subjective being-in-the-world experiences of sitting, listening, and learning from the wisdom of Mission Creek, “speaking”. I explored how this kind of embodied inquiry might shape …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Sport and Fandom Through Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
<p>This project aims to uncover the phenomenological and communicative roots of sport fandom from the fan perspective, taking into account the many ways in which fans come to contact sport and integrate corresponding experiences into their own lives and sense of being in the world. Hans-Georg …
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