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Meaning and Being in Myth

Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039459
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Being in Myth written by Norman Austin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meanings imposed upon Being by culturally determined signifiers. The primary signifiers in myth (the gods), as projections of contradictory meanings, impel human consciousness in contradictory directions: toward heroic self-realization, on the one hand, and into the fear, guilt, and despair resulting from failure, on the other. The gods both reveal and occlude that which they signify--the signified; ultimately, Being itself. Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger, as examples of the power of mythical archetypes to reveal and occlude Being, even when the apparatus of gods has been excluded. Despite their pessimism, ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble. Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth, religion, and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness, consciousness realized in consciousness, and consciousness realized in the world.

Being and Meaning

Author : Sebastian Alackapally
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120818033
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Being and Meaning written by Sebastian Alackapally and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being and Meaning is a comparative study of the concepts of Being and Language in Bhartrhari and Martin Heidegger, emphasising the universality of their thinking. Language in Bhartrhari's vision is the medium of the self-expression for the Ultimate Reality (Sabdatattva). In Heidegger's thinking language is the Original Utterance (Sage) which Being speaks to man. Being expresses itself in language, and phenomena in the world occur simultaneously with the occurrence of language. Bhartrhari and Heidegger lead one to the belonging togetherness of Being and being beyond all conceptualizing, transcending the bounds of Orient and Occident.

The Way of Being

Author : Joseph Knecht
Publisher : Joseph Knecht
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Being written by Joseph Knecht and published by Joseph Knecht. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by true events, The Way of Being shows the journey of a young boy who goes into the world for the first time. In this narrative non-fiction novel, a young boy Joshua through dialogue with his father Elohim learns how to be and exist in the world. Joshua lives in a future dystopian reality where suffering permeates the nature of all beings. In the darkness, Joshua lives, but he is forever searching for the light. The light which is hidden in the most important questions of human nature. What is fear? How to act? Is there free will? What is love, reality, and death? Joshua will discover the answers to all of these questions. But in the end, Joshua will discover the answer to the most important question of being human, and that is the true meaning of life.

The Meaning of Being a Man

Author : Ole Bjerg
Publisher : Athos Books
ISBN 13 : 9788797245309
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Being a Man written by Ole Bjerg and published by Athos Books. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Being a Man is a philosophical alternative to conventional gender studies.

Becoming Human

Author : Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479890049
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human written by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. In so doing, Becoming Human demonstrates that the history of racialized gender and maternity, specifically antiblackness, is indispensable to future thought on matter, materiality, animality, and posthumanism. Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production alters the meaning of being human and engages in imaginative practices of world-building against a history of the bestialization and thingification of blackness—the process of imagining the black person as an empty vessel, a non-being, an ontological zero—and the violent imposition of colonial myths of racial hierarchy. She creatively responds to the animalization of blackness by generating alternative frameworks of thought and relationality that not only disrupt the racialization of the human/animal distinction found in Western science and philosophy but also challenge the epistemic and material terms under which the specter of animal life acquires its authority. What emerges is a radically unruly sense of a being, knowing, feeling existence: one that necessarily ruptures the foundations of "the human."

Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health

Author : Mike Slade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316839567
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health written by Mike Slade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two bodies of knowledge - wellbeing and recovery. Wellbeing and 'positive' approaches are increasingly influencing many areas of society. Recovery in mental illness has a growing empirical evidence base. For the first time, overlaps and cross-fertilisation opportunities between the two bodies of knowledge are identified. International experts present innovations taking place within the mental health system, which include wellbeing-informed new therapies, e-health approaches and peer-led recovery communities. State-of-the-art applications of wellbeing to the wider community are also described, across education, employment, parenting and city planning. This book will be of interest to anyone connected with the mental health system, especially people using and working in services, and clinical and administrators leaders, and those interested in using research from the mental health system in the wider community.

A Significant Life

Author : Todd May
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623570X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book A Significant Life written by Todd May and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tour de force. It is a thoughtful, subtle, beautifully written discussion of what it takes to live a meaningful life.” —Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice Throughout history most of us have looked to faith, relationships, or deeds to give our lives purpose. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilarating new way of thinking about meaning, one deeply attuned to life as it actually is: a work in progress, a journey—and often a narrative. Offering moving accounts of his own life alongside rich engagements with philosophers from Aristotle to Heidegger, he shows us where to find the significance of our lives: in the way we live them. May starts by looking at the fundamental fact that life unfolds over time, and as it does so, it begins to develop certain qualities, certain themes. Our lives can be marked by intensity, curiosity, perseverance, or many other qualities that become guiding narrative values. These values lend meanings to our lives that are distinct from—but also interact with—the universal values we are taught to cultivate, such as goodness or happiness. Offering a fascinating examination of a broad range of figures—from music icon Jimi Hendrix to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, from cyclist Lance Armstrong to The Portrait of a Lady’s Ralph Touchett to Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler—May shows that narrative values offer a rich variety of criteria by which to assess a life, specific to each of us and yet widely available. They offer us a way of reading ourselves, who we are, and who we might like to be.

What Is Meaning?

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156395
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book What Is Meaning? written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. Traditionally conceived, propositions are denizens of a "third realm" beyond mind and matter, "grasped" by mysterious Platonic intuition. As conceived here, they are cognitive-event types in which agents predicate properties and relations of things--in using language, in perception, and in nonlinguistic thought. Because of this, one's acquaintance with, and knowledge of, propositions is acquaintance with, and knowledge of, events of one's cognitive life. This view also solves the problem of "the unity of the proposition" by explaining how propositions can be genuinely representational, and therefore bearers of truth. The problem, in the traditional conception, is that sentences, utterances, and mental states are representational because of the relations they bear to inherently representational Platonic complexes of universals and particulars. Since we have no way of understanding how such structures can be representational, independent of interpretations placed on them by agents, the problem is unsolvable when so conceived. However, when propositions are taken to be cognitive-event types, the order of explanation is reversed and a natural solution emerges. Propositions are representational because they are constitutively related to inherently representational cognitive acts. Strikingly original, What Is Meaning? is a major advance.

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

Author : Susan Wolf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154503
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Meaning in Life and Why It Matters written by Susan Wolf and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love--and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. Wolf makes a compelling case that, along with happiness and morality, this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life. Written in a lively and engaging style, and full of provocative examples, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters is a profound and original reflection on a subject of permanent human concern.

The Meaning of Human Existence

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 087140480X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Human Existence written by Edward O. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence—from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.

Being Human

Author : John H. Morgan
Publisher : Lirio Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781929569168
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Being Human written by John H. Morgan and published by Lirio Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running the gamut from the analysis of Freud s pleasure principle to Teilhard de Chardin s ecological mysticism, this latest collection of John Morgan s philosophical anthropology addresses a wide range of conceptual frameworks for the understanding of what it means to be human. Perspectives on meaning and interpretation are presented from systematic probings into religion, culture, and personality using meaning itself as the hermeneutical instrument for investigation. Freud, Tillich, Geertz, Berger, Heschel, and Mannheim are among the systems of thought investigated within the context of both Heideggerian metaphysics and Franklian psychology informed by Hassidic mysticism.

Being Unfolded

Author : Thomas Gricoski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0813232589
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Being Unfolded written by Thomas Gricoski and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Edith Stein's comment that "being is the unfolding of meaning," the author contends that her understanding of the term is relational and thus resistant to both existentialism and essentialism. He tests his hypothesis against Stein's three modes of being (actual, essential, and mental) from both phenomenological and scholastic perspectives"--

The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena

Author : Dermot Moran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892827
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena written by Dermot Moran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a substantial contribution to the history of philosophy. Its subject, the ninth-century philosopher John Scottus Eriugena, developed a form of idealism that owed as much to the Greek Neoplatonic tradition as to the Latin fathers and anticipated the priority of the subject in its modern, most radical statement: German idealism. Moran has written the most comprehensive study yet of Eriugena's philosophy, tracing the sources of his thinking and analyzing his most important text, the Periphyseon. This volume will be of special interest to historians of mediaeval philosophy, history, and theology.

The Meaning of Being Lonely

Author : Matthew Bok
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312731591
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Being Lonely written by Matthew Bok and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two different stories about the genesis and the life-cycle of relationships. One is told from the female perspective, one from the male.

Diamond Heart: Inexhaustible Mystery

Author : A. H. Almaas
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834827476
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Heart: Inexhaustible Mystery written by A. H. Almaas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in A. H. Almaas' masterwork on the contemporary spiritual path known as the Diamond Approach From one perspective, we can see ourselves merely as human beings struggling in a crowded and chaotic world of suffering. Inexhaustible Mystery opens our eyes to a different reality, one that turns our familiar world inside out. We need only explore—with curiosity and love—our true potential as human beings in order to discover infinite depth and creativity in our lives as we act and interact in the world. When time and space expand their meaning, we come to know ourselves as having infinite dimensions of being and qualities of spirit, and uncover new mysteries about ourselves, one another, and the reality we live in. This is the last of the five-volume Diamond Heart series of transcribed and edited talks given by A. H. Almaas to inner-work groups in California and Colorado.

Finite and Eternal Being

Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 0935216324
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Finite and Eternal Being written by Edith Stein and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "this volume, "written by a beginner for beginners" bears the imprint of the extraordinary intellectual and spiritual journey of its author, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. born in Breslau into a practicing Jewish family in 1891, Edith Stein abandoned her faith as a teenager and later became a key figure among the early disciples of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. ........." [from back cover]

The Power of Meaning

Author : Emily Esfahani Smith
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 055344655X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Meaning written by Emily Esfahani Smith and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life. Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s secrets. The truth is, there are untapped sources of meaning all around us—right here, right now. To explore how we can craft lives of meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith synthesizes a kaleidoscopic array of sources—from psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists to figures in literature and history such as George Eliot, Viktor Frankl, Aristotle, and the Buddha. Drawing on this research, Smith shows us how cultivating connections to others, identifying and working toward a purpose, telling stories about our place in the world, and seeking out mystery can immeasurably deepen our lives. To bring what she calls the four pillars of meaning to life, Smith visits a tight-knit fishing village in the Chesapeake Bay, stargazes in West Texas, attends a dinner where young people gather to share their experiences of profound loss, and more. She also introduces us to compelling seekers of meaning—from the drug kingpin who finds his purpose in helping people get fit to the artist who draws on her Hindu upbringing to create arresting photographs. And she explores how we might begin to build a culture that leaves space for introspection and awe, cultivates a sense of community, and imbues our lives with meaning. Inspiring and story-driven, The Power of Meaning will strike a profound chord in anyone seeking a life that matters.