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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"philosophy of life"”.
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Heidegger and the philosophy of life : Kantian and post-Kantian thinking in the work of the early Heidegger as the foundation for a new Lebensphilosophie
The publication of Sein und Zeit in 1927 by the very young Martin Heidegger, a mere thirty-eight at the time, radically changed philosophy in a fashion that made returning to the ways of doing philosophy prior to Sein und Zeit impossible. Heidegger's new way of understanding Being was through …
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Does Faith-Based Worldview Predict Confidence in College Major: A Quantitative Longitudinal Study at the University of Michigan
… their confidence in choosing a major, philosophy of life, and participation in community service. Results indicated direct effects from choosing a major and being involved in community service. The study also showed direct effects of choosing a major and developing a meaningful …
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Masks and transformations
… to the metaphors which best represent my philosophy of life. Inspired by my studies of Ancient American (Mayan and Anasazi) art and archaeology, I use the jaguar, the bird, the snake and man in metaphoric allegory to parallel the four stages of life. All ideas and expressions in my artwork …
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Human Theatre
Human Theatre III's photography series of juxtaposition of space is a confluence of ideas and a group of loose practices. It does not have a single point of origin, a clear meaning, or a linear narrative: Instead, it uses a series of fragmented metaphors and metonymy phrases to solve the problem of …
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John G. Neihardt as an Epic Poet
This study of John G. Neihardt as an epic writer has been undertaken with the purpose of discovering the influences social, economic and literary, that caused the poet to turn exclusively to this form of literary art, when he was already on the road to success in another channel, namely, the short …
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A study of Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus
It is the intention and purpose of this thesis to study the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles. Since there is a real need for an investigation of the Coloneus as a work of art and not as a philosophical treatise or a theological tract, the limitations of my study are strictly defined. I shall direct my …
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Greek Influence is Shelley
… is deeply Indebted to Greece for his theory of art and philosophy of life. | As light, speeding from a distant planet, was once intercepted by a sufficiently delicate instrument and made to illuminate one of earth's cities, so the brilliancy of Greek culture, gleaming through the ages was …
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Critical Life: Bergson, Canguilhem and the Critical Investigation of Life and the Living
The objective of my research is to offer a critical investigation of life and the living according to Bergson and Canguilhem. The ‘critical’ perspective in this investigation refers to the exploration of the difficulty, controversy and significance of the problematic concept of life in these two …
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Saint Augustine, The Teacher
… successful endeavor is carried on in the light of some guiding theory or philosophy. Each organization is found to have an outline of its purposes and to set its goals. It has a decided sphere of action and determines the methods and processes that are to he employed to bring about, directly and …
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The Conditions of Emergence: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of The Origins of Life
<p>This dissertation explores the limits of feminist theory in terms of what questions it can address, and does this by reimagining the relation feminist theory and late nineteenth and twentieth-century continental thought can have with scientific research concerning the origins of life. I argue …
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A phenomenological study of the professional support requirements and grief interventions to parents bereaved by an unexplained death at different time periods in the grief process
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the support needs and grief interventions professionals and bereaved parents believed were helpful during different time periods in the grief process and the lived experience of providing or receiving those support needs. Ten …
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Thoreau's Confucianism in The Dial, Walden, and Civil Disobedience.
… American critics have overlooked the influence of Confucianism on Henry David Thoreau. In fact, Thoreau's long-time study of Confucius greatly enriched his thought and contributed to his spiritual and intellectual growth. Prior to Thoreau's study of Confucius, Thoreau did not publish any of his …
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Rural Homes and Secondary School Integration
After twenty years of experience in Catholic rural institutions of learning the writer has concluded that a false philosophy has been taught in the rural secondary schools. The ideas that labor is "degrading and disgraceful" and that money is the end of education have been the bane of educators. It …
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The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, the Expression of Pope's Ideal of the Gentleman
… 1 was I born for nothing but to write? Has life no joys for me? or (to be grave)</em></p> <p><em>Have I no friend to serve, no soul to save?</em></p> <p>Ep. to Arbuthnot. 11. 272-274.</p> <p>These lines from the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot contain Pone's philosophy of life, a philosophy in …
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Garden of the mind
Life is an ongoing process. My philosophy of life is based on a feeling of temporary presence. I don't seek immortality; instead, I desire a life of rural simplicity. For the past three years, I have experienced the unique life situation of living far away from my motherland of Taiwan. Exploring …
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"A question of relationship": the flower of consciousness in the fiction of D.H. Lawrence
… sensitivity to nature and an exceptional power of transforming that sensitivity into artistic expression are among the most frequently remarked traits of D.H. Lawrence's genius. But few critics have examined the individual phenomena so transformed. This study makes an effort to correct that …
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A Sensory Tour of Cape Cod: Thoreau's Transcendental Journey to Spiritual Renewal
… Cod depicts Henry David Thoreau's interpretation of life as a struggle for survival and a search for salvation in a stark New England setting. Representing Thoreau's greatest test of the goodness of God and nature, the book illustrates the centrality of the subject of death to Thoreau's philosophy …
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Generation Z in London in times of social crisis: a phenomenological exploration of the experience of joy of living during national lockdown
This research project explored the experience of joy of living during the times of the COVID-19 Pandemic for eight young adults of Generation Z living in London. The exploration also covered the young adult’s generational self-identity and their views about the world of today. Generation Z or Gen Z …
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Dynamics of self-discovery in Hermann Hesse’s novels (1919–43): an analysis of the influence of Jung, Freud and Nietzsche on Hesse
… place more emphasis on the ongoing process of personal self-discovery than any other works by Hermann Hesse. I examine the influence of Jungian and Freudian psychoanalytical patterns of thought on the specific narrative composition of Hesse’s novels and also how Nietzsche’s psychology of …
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Quo Vadis: An Integrated Direction for Catholic Media Technology Engagement
… years, the Catholic Church has explored issues of media technology and how it relates to education. At the same time, a number of profound, modern Catholic thinkers have wrestled with the nature of media technology and how it affects the human condition. These two threads have been independent …
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