250 Search Results for Existentialism
Myth in a Work of Art
Albert Camus was born on the 7th of November 1913 in Algeria from a French father and a Spanish mother. His father died in the First World War (seriously wounded in the battle of the Marne, he died a month later), so that Camu Continue Reading...
Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato is one of the most highly acclaimed books of the 20th century by Spanish author Ernesto Sabato. The novel is grounded in existentialism and the story revolves around Juan Pablo Castel, the protagonist who in a very dark mome Continue Reading...
life of Karlk Rahner, German theologist and roman Catholic Philosopher. Looking and discussing on some of his views and philosophies and those that had an influence upon his life such as St. Thomas Aquinas and Kant.
Karl Rahner, 1904-1984
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Essay Topic Examples
1. The Use of Color as Symbolism in Film:
Explore how directors use color palettes to convey deeper meanings, emotions, or themes within their films, using examples from various genres.
2. Symbolism Thr Continue Reading...
Exploring the Complexity of Antiheroes in Literature
Introduction
Antiheroes have long fascinated readers with their moral ambiguity, flawed characteristics, and unconventional approaches to heroism. Unlike traditional heroes who embody virtues Continue Reading...
Qualitative Case Study AssignmentIntroductionThe qualitative case study serves as a research methodology that enables the exploration of a specific phenomenon within a particular context, utilizing various data sources. This approach examines the phe Continue Reading...
Personality Theories: How I Made a ChangeThe American Psychological Association (APA) defines personality as distinct, individual patterns of thinking and feeling (Personality, 2021). Although there are certain traits which all human beings share to Continue Reading...
Polonius: A Literature Review
As chief counselor to the king of Denmark, Polonius plays an important and nefarious role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet—yet his words are often quoted out of context and it is Polonius, the spying, lying, manipulat Continue Reading...
Preface –
Moral Leadership in an International Context
South Africa - Johannesburg and Cape Town December 2018 – January 2019
Wow! What an adventure! This trip/course to South Africa with my Candler School of Theology comrades was a ful Continue Reading...
When the term depression is used it may refer to the various existing types of depression depending on the factors that lead to that depression. Existential causes of depression occur when people question their life, its meaning, death. By questionin Continue Reading...
Yin and Stake Philosophical Worldviews
My perspective as a qualitative doctoral researcher more closely aligns with Yin’s worldview than with Stake’s. As Yazan (2015) notes, Yin’s approach to case study research was rather systemati Continue Reading...
Introduction
The development of the concept of evolution is, in essence, the story of the development of the scientific method. It begins with observation, continues through the development and testing of hypotheses, adds replication, and finally, af Continue Reading...
Although penologists disagree about how best to achieve the outcome, there is a general consensus that identifying optimal strategies that facilitate offender rehabilitation represents a valuable and timely enterprise at all levels of the criminal ju Continue Reading...
Kierkegaard
As a Person
Born on May 5, 1813 in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard was a famous philosopher and theologian. He claimed his physical frailty was an oppressive weight that dragged down his healthy spirit, which lon Continue Reading...
Grotesque
If one goes back to Plato and examines what the Greek philosopher had to say about beauty and truth, one discovers the foundation of the transcendental spirit in the West. The Greek philosophers -- Socrates, Plato, Aristotle -- more or le Continue Reading...
Teaching Philosophy and Educating Students
Traditionally, the focus of education has been the primary "3Rs" -- writing, reading, and arithmetic. But with ever-growing technological innovation driving universal change, educators need to reconsider wh Continue Reading...
Behavior of Two Main Characters From Two Different Books
There are both similarities and differences between the protagonists of the Novels 'Lord of the Flies" (Golding) and "Heart of Darkness" (Conrad). In each case we have the supposedly 'civiliz Continue Reading...
difficult, in retrospect, to point to an instance where I was ahead of everyone else, but I have been able to solve problems. I remember I was in need of a career change. Mostly, things just did not feel right in my career. I did not really know wha Continue Reading...
Freud and the existentialists are too pessimistic about human nature? Are humanistic psychologists closer to the truth, or too optimistic?
According to Freud, all desire is a form of displacement. First, the young boy desires his mother. However, u Continue Reading...
Philosophy?
When one attends a post-secondary institution, one of the most challenging things is to find your place, both scholarly and intellectually. That is, who am I supposed to be? What do I want to be? What is my passion in academia? Moreover Continue Reading...
Kafka's Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis: Transformations
The Metamorphosis as authored and offered by Franz Kafka in 1915 is often labeled as one of the more transforming, to use a pun, works in the history of literature of the last century or two, if Continue Reading...
Culture of Martyrdom," David Brooks calls suicide bombing " the crack cocaine of warfare," (1). As a drug-like substance, suicide bombing is addictive and therefore "transforms the culture of those who employ it," just as drug addiction changes one' Continue Reading...
Symbolism in the Road
There is a story for everyman in The Road, which is doubtless a primary reason that the book captured a Pulitzer Prize for Cormac McCarthy in 2007. The story is particularly poignant for readers who are parents as it manifests Continue Reading...
Counseling Models REVISED
CHART OF TYPES OF THERAPY
TYPE / / GOAL / / THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP / / TECHNIQUES
Psychoanalytic. / / "To Turn Neurosis into Ordinary Unhappiness" / / Silent, occasionally venturing an interpretation, therapist as "one Continue Reading...
Enlightenment worldview is the root of the "liberal social order," and is predicated on the belief in "the natural unfolding of human progress," (Kagan, 2012). Preceded by a Church-dominated orthodoxy, the Enlightenment directly threatened the politi Continue Reading...
education and the teacher-learner relationship from a Christian-informed philosophical perspective. It begins with an explanation of the author's personal worldview, and then explores the various philosophical schools of education. Combining the two Continue Reading...
Little is said about the relationship Julius has with his grandmother until mid-way through the book. The details of Julius' life are only sketchily filled out and are mainly illustrated through the stream-of-consciousness thoughts which transpire w Continue Reading...
drew you to the post to which you are responding -- a particular insight, way of writing, or question being asked.
Be generous and name what you find engaging about the post.
Ask questions that invite clarification or further discussion.
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sight, Through the Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik, seems a collection of blurred essays. As I read further the more these essays seemed to me to revolve around a certain theme. Existentialism. The fact that we are all unique, each having our own vie Continue Reading...
Children's Gate: Of a Home in New York by Gopnik (2008)
Of Maps
The work of Gopnik (2008) entitled "Through the Children's Gate: Of A Home In New York" relates a story about a man that worked for the city and during his employment took a set of ae Continue Reading...
Man's Ability To Treat Humans Like Animals
It is a vivid fact that the feelings of cruelty, discrimination and racial distribution are embedded well in to human nature since its very inception. This world depicts several cases where humans treat oth Continue Reading...
) (Stevenson, 1972). Certainly, in a world in which moral ambiguity is commonplace, a framework or reference for moral analysis is relevant and necessary -- particularly as we begin to include concepts from other societies.
Clearly, Sandel is more r Continue Reading...
Philosophy
In Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation), German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer presents his core philosophies. One of the themes in The World as Will and Representation is the function of the human wi Continue Reading...
value of life? Well, this is theoretical, very general question may actually depends on whose life it is that you are talking about and how you define 'value'. Then again, it may be a meaningless question that may be rhetorical and a red herring sin Continue Reading...
Genius Award
20th Century Genius Award: John Lennon
It is with great pleasure and honor that the Committee of Genius presents the 20th Century Genius Award for Excellence in the Age of Pluralism and the Age of Modernism to English artist, musician, Continue Reading...
Paranoia, Entrapment, And the Corruption of the American Dream
in Double Indemnity and Detour
Film noir can be described as "murder with a psychological twist" (Spicer 1). As a genre that flourished during the 1940s, film noir came to reflect the a Continue Reading...
Modernism, and how the literature that is considered to be Modernist literature is representative of the period. Then explain how contemporary world literature comes from Modernism
Discuss three Modernists and their work.
Then discuss two contempo Continue Reading...
Ethical Theory or System
Other names for theory
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Workplace example
Consequence-based ethics
This approach prioritizes the value attached to results of actions. Consequence based approach points at the results of one's action on Continue Reading...
God
Believe About God
Looking at the atheist worldview on believe about God as a myth that people have invented to make them feel better we tend to find out whether it is impossible to have a high moral character without belief in God.
As I was g Continue Reading...