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Aging: Learning to Live a Finite Life
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Jan Baars
The Gerontologist, Volume 57, Issue 5, October 2017, Pages 969–976, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw089
Published: 22 June 2016
... given many examples of the interconnection between limitations and openings as she interprets being born as a limited but unique being as a promise of unforeseen possibilities. In her work, the human condition is characterized not by death, but by “natality”: we are not in the world to die...
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Some Pitfalls in the Philosophical Foundations of Nanoethics
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Jean-Pierre Dupuy
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237–261, https://doi.org/10.1080/03605310701396992
Published: 01 January 2007
...Jean-Pierre Dupuy artificial nature human condition knowledge and know-how moral philosophy nanoethics Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 32:237–261, 2007
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ISSN: 0360-5310 print/1744-5019 online
DOI: 10.1080/03605310701396992
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Péter Forgács: An Interview
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Scott Macdonald
Published: 02 December 2011
... and places not available in official histories of this momentous era. While home movies and amateur films exemplify general historical developments or the human condition, Forgács does considerable research into the particular films he works with so he can provide specific information about nonprofessional...
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Seeking Truth
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Paul Stoller
Published: 15 December 2008
..., this promised to give us a better understanding of the processes of human cognition and, by extension, a deeper comprehension of the human condition. Dewey John Georgetown University Jefferson Gail Lévi Strauss Claude Chomsky A Noam Douglas Mary Fasold Ralph Goffman Erving Labov William Republic...
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What Philosophy Is For
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Michael Hampe
Published online: 20 September 2018
Published in print: 01 February 2018
... on the human condition....
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Conclusion: singularity and doubleness
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Hilary Hinds
Published: 31 August 2011
..., as in more orthodox reformed interpretations, but, for Quakers, in a different configuration. Quakerism announced the reality of a single spiritual condition: the universally present inward light, available to all. The sharply bifurcated doubleness of the human condition (those who turned to, and those who...
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Introduction: We Feed Them Milk: Theological Anthropology as a Labor of Love
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Jeannine Hill Fletcher
Published: 09 August 2013
... men's Genesis human condition language Pauline Epistles person as theological category philosophy Rahner Karl self motherhood and formation of the sin Judaism Philadelphia Area Multifaith Dialogue Group freedom gender as basis of bias privilege relationality as constitutive of the human...
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Hannah Arendt: Place, World, and Earthly Nature
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Peter F. Cannavò
Published: 26 January 2015
... Human Condition Arendt Place Agriculture Artifice human Growth Labor Nature Sustainability Freedom Locke John Chapman Anne Founding of places Villa Dana Collectives and collectivity Identity Preservation Objectivity Ott Paul Alienation Honig Bonnie Modernity Green politics Hannah...
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Loneliness
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Janne Flora
Published: 25 March 2019
...Of relatedness and loneliness, it is mostly relatedness that has caught the imagination of anthropologists. Loneliness generally belongs to the realm of philosophy where it is thought of as the human condition: an inescapable fact of the human existence and intimately part of what makes us human...
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James Kudelka: Love, Sex, and Death
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Amy Bowring and Tanya Evidente
Published: 14 April 2021
... of the human condition through ballet. ballet Kudelka James modern dance postmodernism Russian classics waltz form in Kudelka duets Canada Canada Council for the Arts Canadian Ballet Festivals dance festivals Franca Celia Les Grands Ballets Canadiens National Ballet of Canada NBC Royal Commission...
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Published: 11 July 2002
... one another, but the main difference is that Freudianism believes in “human nature” whereas existentialism is concerned with the human situation or the “human condition.” This chapter thus introduces the psychological and the existential understandings of Waiting for Godot ...
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Fact and Fiction
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John Parrington
Published: 22 April 2021
... explorations of the human condition that we find in novelistic literature can greatly add to our scientific understanding by concretizing that condition in its diverse forms. The chapter also explores a related question: how much do novels draw on new insights about the nature of consciousness, so increasing...
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Constitutional Theory, the Unitary Executive, and the Rule of Law
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Sotirios A. Barber and James E. Fleming
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and institutional norms like democracy and the rule of law. Another is a substantive context, directed to constitutional goods or ends to which constitutional institutions are committed. A third is a philosophical context, the view of the human good and the human condition that is believed to justify...
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The Raw Material of Ritual
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Michael Jackson
Published: 10 October 2017
... of the human condition. Crossing the threshold from childhood to adulthood is one of the most universal and vexed transitions anyone makes in his or her life. Nevertheless, this Oedipal Project cannot be reduced either to libidinal conflicts or to a process of socialization whereby one generation imposes its...
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Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 16 May 2011
... works — The Origins of Totalitarianism , The Human Condition and On Revolution — alongside her less-well-known and posthumously published writing; shows how Arendt framed problems with respect to specific concerns in the modern polity and democratic...
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Care and Concern: Arendt with Winnicott
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Bonnie Honig
Published: 01 March 2017
...This chapter examines “things” in Hannah Arendt's work in relation to D. W. Winnicott's object relations. Hoping to generate a lexicon for a political theory of public things, it analyzes Arendt's The Human Condition together with Winnicott's work. It notes the convergence...
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The Bounds of Utopia
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John Foster
Published: 17 February 2022
... be defeasible as a necessary corollary of realism. Transformative aspirations can easily betray us if they are not ongoingly adjusted by experience – but counter-empirical hope cannot of its nature be subject to that kind of check. Recognition of the human condition as tragic must serve...
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Published: 01 September 2015
... vehicle for thinking anew about the human condition. References Aron, L. , & Starr, K. ( 2013 ). A psychotherapy for the people: Toward a progressive psychoanalysis . New York, NY: Routledge. Aronowicz, A. ( 1994 ). Translator’s introduction. In E. Levinas...
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Psychology and the Other
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David Goodman (ed.) and Mark Freeman (ed.)
Published online: 19 November 2015
Published in print: 01 September 2015
...—and reconceptualizing—classic psychological and philosophical issues, ranging from identity and purpose to human frailty and suffering? In what ways can the idea of the Other serve to reorient inquiry toward aspects of the human condition? How do psychology, philosophy, theology, and religious studies speak about...
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Published online: 16 April 2014
Published in print: 18 December 2013
...This book provides a radical reorientation of our most basic ways of making sense of the human condition. Contemporary psychology – as well as our own ordinary understanding of experience – remains largely ego-centric in focus, seeing the self as the primary source of meaning and value. Working...
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