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Aristotle's Account of the Passions
… seeks to demonstrate that the Aristotelian passions or pathç are the unity of two aspects or components, namely a physiological component called pleasure or pain and a cognitive component called krisis.</p> <p>Aristotle gives the definition of the passions in the second book of the Rhetoric …
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Elementary Teachers of Writing: Paths, Passions, and Practices
<p>This mixed-methods study examined the personal and professional experiences of early elementary teachers related to writing, seeking relationships between their experiences and instructional practices. Data included a survey of 61 kindergarten, first, and second-grade teachers and two focus …
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Platonic and Stoic Passions in Philo of Alexandria
… Alexandria forged his theory of the soul and its passions while<br/>expositing the meaning of Torah. Though writing as a Jewish teacher and disciple of Moses, his biblical reflections display a strong orientation toward Middle-Platonic philosophy. On the topic of the soul and its passions, …
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Ford Madox Ford: Two Passions, Writing and Provence
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L'influence des passions dans l'éducation morale
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At the Crossroads: John Fawcett, Anger, and the Shift From Passions to Emotions
… of anger in the affections rather than the passions, framing anger not as a disruptive force to be suppressed or pathologized, but as a morally formative response to be disciplined under the influence of Scripture, reason, and the Spirit.This thesis unfolds across seven chapters that …
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Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays
… mind; and the possibility of powerful rhetorical passions, generated in performance. The film assumes (true) love as an emotion that is rare, elusive and, crucially, authentic. But as a renaissance 'passion', love would have very different qualities. Such passions would be vital, dynamic forces, …
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Mens immobilis. Recherches sur le corpus latin des actes et passions d'Afrique romaine (IIe-VIe siècles)
… University of Liège, methods applied to three passions of Caesarean Mauretania.
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Joanna Baillie: The Theory in Her Plays on the Passions and an Analysis of Four Dramas Within that Series
… Which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind: Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy (the Plays on the Passions). It has become common among theatrical and literary scholars to condemn Baillie's work as either a dramatic failure or a literary oddity. …
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Treason, passion and power in England, 1660 – 1685.
… division and dissent. This thesis analyses the passions of the period, which, although hitherto underexplored by historians, played a key role in Restoration politics. Emotions not only defined individual and national identity, but also framed the bond between subject and sovereign. This study …
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The Philokalia and Mental Wellbeing
… of Pontus concerning the “eight thoughts” or passions. The concept of the passions represents a sophisticated phenomenology of the inner life which explains why people fail to adhere to the virtues that they espouse and make judgements which do not withstand the light of reason. It thus …
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American Catholoic Periodical Coverage of the Spanish Civil War
… for the first time and in this conflict the passions of the world were aroused.</p> <p>This internal struggle within the Spanish state reflected a political division within the Western World. This division had been developing since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles seventeen years …
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Asian black and minority ethnic principals in England’s further education colleges: an investigation into the dynamics of their leadership
… are driven by their deeply rooted principles, passions and values flowing from their direct experiences of disadvantage, disparities and racial discrimination. Their personal up-bringing, socialisation and heritage have not only inspired and encouraged them to come into education, but have also …
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The Eighth Deadly Sin: Dejection as Passion in The Wanderer
… version of the seven deadly sins--the deadly passions--as a new interpretive framework.
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Artistic Expression in Music and Poetry
This paper delineates meaningful relationships of passions, emotions, feelings, affections, nuances and aural perceptions of expressions and utterances, for understanding human artistic possibilities historically and contemporarily in the fraternal arts of music and poetry, with reference to …
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Gestalt Work For the Actor: A Documentary Video Production
… powerful emotions and then employ the conjured passions into performance. This documentary examines the Gestalt acting exercise and what benefits it affords actors. The accompanying production book explains the production processes: preproduction, production, and postproduction, as well as the …
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Il conflitto tra ragione e passioni nel pensiero morale, economico e politico di Bernard Mandeville
… is the conflicting relation between reason and passions, and the consequences that Mandeville’s view of this conflict has in the development of his theory of human nature which, I argue, is what grounds his moral, economic and, above all, political theory. According to Mandeville, reason is …
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Contemplation and the Human Animal in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
… orient us. The sensitive appetite is the seat of passions, and among them of love, desire and delight. Love, desire and delight guide and accompany our pursuit of knowledge. The passions of love and delight also accompany the act of contemplation.</p><p>The operations of the sensitive soul enter …
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