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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"contemplation"”.
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Silence as politics : witness and resistance in contemplation.
… vita contemplativa and the vita activa, in which contemplation is understood as a spiritual practice with effects upon our political realities. In this view, contemplation and, more particularly, contemplative silence are relational, embodied acts deeply entangled with the socio-political reality …
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Aesthetics of Diagrammatic Contemplation: Abhinavagupta's and Martin Heidegger's Views on Being as Such and How It Can Be Disclosed Through Aesthetic Contemplation
… of subject/object perception through aesthetic contemplation. Heidegger's post-aesthetic approach aims to overcome the subject-object duality to uncover two hidden onto-epistemological dimensions: the mode of practical engagement and Being as such, also referred to by other terms including ‘the …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
At the proceedings of the Second Vatican Council from 1963 to 1965, landmark decisions called for the inculturation of the Roman Catholic faith - an attempt to have the faith made more accessible within the context of culture and society. This has led to changes in monastic life for the individual …
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How Architecture can influence private contemplation and public negotiation
… services. How can Architecture influence private contemplation and public negotiation? This thesis attempts to investigate the effect of our built environment on how individuals work together. To explore this question, a conflict resolution center becomes the vehicle to study the physical, social, …
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Dalí's Religious Models: the Iconography of Martyrdom and its Contemplation
… the perceptual and cognitive mechanics of the contemplation of death – that foreground the problem of the sexual and mortal self. Part I examines the period 1925-7, when Dalí developed an aesthetic outlook in dialogue with Lorca, formulated in his text, 'Sant Sebastià'. Representations of …
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Contemplation and Immersion: Exploring the Five Elements and Australian Landscape
This practice-led research project investigates how Tibetan Buddhist concepts of the Five Elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space - as the substance of all things and processes, can be integrated into a contemporary painting practice. I develop my studio practice as an effective and original …
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Contemplation and Immersion: Exploring the Five Elements and Australian Landscape
This practice-led research project investigates how Tibetan Buddhist concepts of the Five Elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space - as the substance of all things and processes, can be integrated into a contemporary painting practice. I develop my studio practice as an effective and original …
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Perceiving landscape: designing for the contemplation of material culture through time
… site to form the new public landscape, impels a contemplation of the layers of material that we leave behind over time, and how this defines us to future generations. A design language derived from the language of geology (erosion, deposition) and archaeology (trace, excavation) informs the …
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Contemplation and the Human Animal in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
… for ordinary (i.e., not mystical) human contemplation, and for the acquisition of knowledge which precedes contemplation.</p><p>The sensitive soul is the soul possessed by all sentient beings, that is, animals, and thus, in examining the role of the sensitive soul in human contemplation …
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Toward a contemplative cyberspace: a transdisciplinary inquiry into contemplation, social media and peace-building
… seeks to address is how sharing the effect of contemplation in cyberspace can initiate and change the formation of new cyber networks for peacebuilding. Through experimental study, this thesis combines a transdisciplinary approach with action research. Utilising an integrated methodology, it …
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The Contemplation of the Transcendent Heart: Tracing the ἡγεμονικόν from the Stoics to Origen
Origen incorporates the Stoic concept of the ἡγεμονικόν, ‘governing faculty’, into his psychology and ethics as the transcendent heart. Origen, who stands at the watershed between ‘middle’ and ‘neo’ Platonism, provides us with a distinctive perspective on how late antique thinkers were able to …
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A space to complement an accelerating species : a space of slower time, optimism, and contemplation
… We need spaces of slower time, optimism, and contemplation. We can create these types of spaces through a deep understanding of Earth Rhythms, the infinitely changing variables that interact to create our constantly modulating experience of Planet Earth. The architect can be thought of an …
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Intercultural Competence Development: Exploring International Graduate Student Leaders' Journeys through Contemplation and Mindfulness-Based Inquiry
… Buddhism, the study scaffolded an innovative contemplation and mindfulness-based inquiry and developed the Lotus theoretical framework combining Mezirow’s (1978) transformative learning theory and Drake’s (2010) story model to explore participants’ lived experiences. Eight international …
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The Work of Contemplation Then and Now: The Cloud of Unknowing and Present-Day Christian Mystical Practice
… discusses what its author calls the “work” of contemplation. In the late twentieth century, the Cloud became an important resource for two Christian contemplative movements that go by the names of “Centering Prayer” and “Christian Meditation.” This dissertation addresses a number of issues …
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An Artificial Life Model of Engineering Attrition Contemplation: Why do Federally Employed Civilian Engineers Think of Quitting?
<p>The research objective is, using engineer turnover, to develop an Artificial Life (A-Life) model and simulation methodology useful for studying behavioral variables of individuals in an organization.</p> <p>One consequence of work stress is burnout, and its extreme expression is quitting or …
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The Quest for Transcendence: The Contemplation of Death in The Lyric Poems of Novalis, Keats, and Shelley
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T22:35:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7414594.pdf: 15019970 bytes, checksum: 10947b95db1981e289f2f8f74bd8c244 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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The Doctrine on Contemplation of St. Gregory the Great as Found in Three of His Sermons on Ezekiel
… for higher prayer, St. Gregory's doctrine on contemplation is set forth. This research has been restricted to three of the twenty-two homilies which he delivered on Ezekiel: the third of the first book and the second and fifth of the second book. This doctrine of prayer was given to a group of …
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