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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"rational mind"”.
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Thomas Jefferson: Life lines
… fundamental components of Jefferson's being, the rational mind and the emotional heart, are musically portrayed in the introduction of the first movement. The music that follows in the first and all subsequent movements is derived from these two components. The first movement contains eight brief …
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A Ritual in Perspective: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Lakota Sundance At Hoosier National Forest
… the time of the Renaissance the supremacy of "rational" or "reasonable" modes of thinking has influenced the modern world. Many American Indian writers, shamans, and Sundance chiefs believe that an understanding of their approach to the Divine may never be apprehended without some sort of …
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Valuing flexibility in product platforms : an analytical framework
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Einstein. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe. It is only with …
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The Modernist Anti-Mental: Literary Life-Writing, Neurology and Medical Psychology, 1860-1939
… nervous system became the basis of the conscious mind and mentality. The central concern of the thesis is with what I call the modernist anti-mental. This manifests itself in three clear ways. Firstly, I use the anti-mental as a term to describe a non- Freudian (or perhaps ambiguously Freudian) …
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Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
… beyond the explanatory powers of logic and the rational mind. Rather, erotic desires represent a profound depth of psychic and affective life that, even in its resistance to sound propositional language, wants to be understood. The resurgence of interest in theories of logic in …
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Henry James and the moral will
… deliberate action; the faculty by which the rational mind makes choice of its end of action.” This is, indeed, the sense in which I use the term throughout my text. Yet in declaring that James opposes “will,” Barzun indicates that James does not concede people the right to direct their own …