..., and remind my older colleagues, of the importance of keeping this perspective as they go forward. I have tried to weave this message together with justification for motivation. difficulties as challenges mentorship selfless public service serendipity social responsibility My educational experiences...

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...This chapter demonstrates how meditative training of attentiveness can effect a shift toward selfless manifestations of consciousness for the practitioners, and develops an assumption that the meditative training of attention results in a combination of events occurring in the thalamus region...

... of "entrepreneurship of the self" where old ideals of paternal selflessness are replaced by new ideals of individualism, ambition, and pleasure seeking. As these men reject the traditional modes of masculinity modeled by their fathers, they explicitly seek new types of affective relationships with "selfish" women who...

.... Such social business companies are designed for the people. Humans are multidimensional—so they are not entirely driven by the individual profit motive. Humans can also be selfless and hence can establish social business firms that benefit the poor. social Grameen Bank Hossain Kamal micro credit self...

... a “golden generation” under the guidance of “selfless volunteers” who constitute a twenty-first-century “army of light” of hizmet insanları, along with his rationalization of a composite of vertical, horizontal, diagonal patterns of authority via an articulated system of “applied Sufism...

... systems elaborating on fundamental insights. There is considerable variety within the label “Buddhist Philosophy”. Central to any Buddhist view of reality is the insight that all phenomena are impermanent, without essence (or selfless), and interdependent. While Buddhists generally understand insight...

...This chapter examines the contributions of volunteers in alleviating the wartime sufferings of Union soldiers. It highlights women volunteers' selfless devotion to soldiers and describes how they lifted the moral and spirits of these soldiers by extending “golden cords of love” to the war zone...

...This chapter places emphasis on the continuity of identity of the one who died for the sins of humanity. It discusses the reference to Jesus of Nazareth that is integral tothe theology of resurrection. In the chapter, the selfless love and self-giving of Jesus is brought into. For the Christian...

...There are three central components to the phenomenon of selfless assertion: first, a subject, for purely non-epistemic reasons, does not believe that p; second, despite this lack of belief, the subject is aware that p is very well supported by all of the available evidence; and, third, because...

...Chapter 1 outlines the modern opposition between selfless love and human flourishing. It argues that this has either construed selfless love as promoting powerlessness and oppression, or rejected the modern concern with the needs and desires of the human individual as antithetical to Christianity...

...Chapter 7 argues that Iris Murdoch’s understanding of the self leads her to call the human individual to engage in a process of unselfing through selfless love of the o/Other. Mediating between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone Weil, Murdoch understands love in terms of a combination of eros...

... as pointing to its relational and fallen nature. Their anthropologies imply that the full development of a person’s self, and hence, human flourishing, depends on a selfless kind of love. A discussion of the merits of Tillich’s and Murdoch’s accounts vis-à-vis Kierkegaard and his successors is followed...

...In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, ‘selfless love’ often appears as a threat to the lover’s personal well-being. Such a perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it. It therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation...

...This book, which contributes to the history and theory of scientific knowledge, explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. How, the author asks, did this idea of selfless knowledge come to be established...

.... The central interest of the novel is the development of Sriram: from sloth to selfless action, through the mediation and ministration of his beloved, a spirited girl, a favourite disciple of the Mahatma, aptly named Bharati (‘Bharat’ being India). The Bachelor of Arts Narayan gunas sattva rajas tamas...

...This chapter investigates stories of philanthropic activities that litter biographies and journalistic accounts of nearly every prominent nineteenth-century prima donna. These reports describe numerous selfless acts that prima donnas committed, such as donating some (or all) of their money...

... patriarchy and paternalism that was hallmark of earlier generations. As the book evocatively shows, the quest for sexual freedom and an escape frpm patriarchal constructions of selfless femininity and protective masculinity promise both personal transformations and profound sexual guilt and anxiety...

...In his late 1920s and early 1930s, Mahatma Gandhi embarked on a religious quest in South Africa. This radically transformed his life. From the Hindu scripture, the Gita, he had imbibed two ideals: ‘non-possession’ and ‘selfless action’. The first set him on the road to voluntary...

.... A generous individual sees clearly that there is no persisting self through time, so rather than holding on to these things lets them go easily. Meanwhile, selfless giving is strongly emphasized in a practice associated with Japanese Buddhism where the individual helps others secretly, without anyone knowing...