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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"human condition"”.
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Art and the contemporary human condition
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 H45
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Art and the contemporary human condition
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 H45
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The image of human condition: Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue
… the Philippists, peculiarly open to the ideas of humanist scholarship, Sidney draws his philosophical precepts from an eclectic mix of sources. These various strands of philosophical, political and theological thought are accommodated within the New Arcadia, which conforms to the kind of …
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William Faulkner's public and poetic voices: A discussion of the "human condition"
William Faulkner claimed that his fiction "failed" to show that "man will prevail," the standard that he set for literature in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. However, this statement and others by Faulkner can be misleading without an understanding of Faulkner's terms. A study of his speeches, …
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Heredity and the Human Condition: A Study of 20th Century Genetic Accounts of Alcoholism
… understanding of the complex interplay of human biological and cultural systems by extending the approach known as Developmental Systems Theory. In the conclusion, I explore these options and their potential ramifications for our understanding of alcoholism in hereditary and human contexts.
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Art and the Human Condition: Incorporating Visual Analysis of Artworks into a Undergraduate Pre-Medicine Curriculum
… a sample class session for the course, "The Human Condition: An Arts Perpective" (ARTH 361), which will be a part of the optional Medical Humanities minor for the pre-medicine students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Dr. Margaret Lindauer, Associate Professor of Art History at VCU …
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Investigations of ephrin ligands during development / by Paul Tosch.
… of ephrin B-1 as a causative gene in the human condition Aicardi's syndrome.
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Pangs of Exile
… is a timeless and continuous element of the human condition. Understanding of this complex literary theme is to be arrived at, not through terminology and definitions, but through historical and ideological perspectives.
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The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
… stage and accounts for more instances of humans’ paradoxical condition. Chapter 1 demonstrates the need for this study. Even though Pascal’s method appears to be a formidable tool for Christian apologists in a postmodern culture, it has received surprisingly little attention and clarity in …
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Elderly housing, orphanage, and community center
… attention, but rather must respond to the entire human condition. I chose to design a project that would allow me to consider architecturally the span between birth and death, with both segregated and interactive spaces for the various age groups. The site echoes the human condition in …
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A Machine for Imagination
… became a speculation and commentary on the human condition. But, more than that, this is a story that tells the evolution and outcome of a series of questions and inquiries into the relationship between Architecture, art and the mythopoetic-narrative realm.
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An analysis of thematics, poetics, and aesthetics in Ivan Bunin's prose narratives
"To underline significant aspects of the human condition in imaginative structures, Bunin contrives a properly suitable relationship between ""form"" and ""content"" without losing aesthetic effects. With this literary perspective, Bunin consistently attempts to pursue the most fundamental …
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King Lear, Heidegger, and the Encounter with Things and Nothing
… is essential to the play’s articulation of the human condition situated within a “strange” and “tough” world (IV.i.11-2, V.iii.313). The human condition is interrogated throughout the play—sometimes directly, sometimes through extended discourses on nature, society, and reason—and the extremity …
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The Fair Wind
… physical landscape and environment affect the human condition. The critical introduction cites much of the process and theory involved in the composition of these works, so that readers may come to a greater understanding of them and of the writer. Many of the poems are formal, following …
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Representing the Subject: An Interdisciplinary Study of Women's Autobiography, Self -Portraiture, and Autoethography in the Twentieth Century
… initiate a more penetrating analysis of the human condition and a more profound inquiry into the foundations of human suffering. Their examination of the origins and manifestations of unconscious desire results in a nuanced interrogation of identity and the markers directly related to them …
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated
… and could have been read as an allegory for the human condition. </p>
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Revealing The Unknown: Revelation Chapel
… and symbolic element, cannot only uplift the human condition but also evoke the spiritual. The result can cause one to know what is unknowable without the presence of light and make one aware of what was unknown to them, as well as, revealing what is greater than themselves. The objective is …
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The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics
… middle ground that reflects commonalities of the human condition can be explored in relation to the foundational principles of Orthodox Christian anthropology. To identify this middle ground the analysis discusses the core relation between hospitality, dignity, and vulnerability as a contribution …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
Transhumanism is a movement dedicated to radically changing the human condition through technology, including by extending lifespan in one of three ways: (1) a biological approach that focuses on reducing the effects of aging, (2) a cybernetic approach that focuses on replacing the body with …
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Loving Lo: The Dialectic of Self-Transcendence and Self-Assertion as Illuminated by the Literary Art of Nabokov's Lolita
… and self-transcending needs within the human condition using Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Lolita, for illustrative purposes. I argue that the human quest for meaning and fuller humanity hinges on finding a balance between our need for autonomous selfhood and our need to be part of a larger …
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