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Smith, Michael. "Existential talks." Lancet 350, no. 9088 (1997): 1408–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)65197-5.
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Barhoum, Khalil. "The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks." American Journal of Islam and Society 19, no. 2 (2002): 109–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v19i2.1944.
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According to Uri Savir, one of the two Israeli chief negotiators who ledtheir country's team to the Israeli-Syrian talks in Washington, DC, in the1990s, "there was a sense among both delegations that, if necessary, wecould go on living without peace." This sense of a fallback position,engendered mainly by the absence of any urgent existential need to reacha final settlement, is what distinguishes these talks from the IsraeliPalestiniannegotiations whose failure is fraught with many risks andunforeseen consequences.Cobban's book draws on research she conducted for her 1991 book,The Super-Powers and the Syrian-Israeli Conflict, and her 1997 monograph,Syria and the Peace: A Good Chance Missed Published and partlyfunded by the United States Institute of Peace, a federal institution createdby Congress in 1984 to promote research on the peaceful managementand resolution of international conflicts, the volume consists ofeight chapters, supplemented with a forward by the president of theInstitute, Richard Solomon, and a thirty-page section devoted to notes.The book contains no illustrations, photographs, appendices, or bibliographicinformation; however, it does offer a small map of Syria andIsrael at the beginning of the book and an eight-page index section at theend.Although somewhat overshadowed by the off-again-on-again IsraeliPalestiniantalks during the 1990s, the Israeli-Syrian negotiations (propelled initially by the 1991 Madrid Peace conference) lasted a period of 52months and, to varying degrees of enthusiasm and success, engaged threesuccessive Israeli governments. The author offers a fascinating account of ...
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Melsom, Blair. "Artificial Intelligence: Creating Post-Human Beings." ITNOW 62, no. 2 (2020): 62–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwaa058.
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Abstract What does it mean to be human? That’s the existential question award-winning artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm has lately been using machine learning technologies to explore. Here, she talks to Blair Melsom AMBCS about how art, science fiction and algorithms converge to provoke thoughts on the ethics of future humanised technology.
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Mikkola, Elisa. "Angel Spirituality in the World’s Happiest Country: The Attraction of Lorna Byrne among Finnish Women." Journal of Religion in Europe 13, no. 3-4 (2021): 351–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-20211482.
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Abstract This article discusses how women in Finland, the happiest country in the world in 2019, use new spiritual services and angels to cope with everyday life. Should not the high living standard and level of happiness decrease spirituality, as Norris and Inglehart suggest? The research material was collected using questionnaires in talks given by Irish mystic Lorna Byrne in Helsinki in 2011 and 2015. For the women studied, angels offer support and bring enchantment to their lives in a way institutionalized religion does not. While the high level of existential security decreases their religiousness, it opens these women up to other alternatives for new spirituality.
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Tomaszewska, Grażyna B. "Męka dwuznaczności i egzorcyzmy." Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio N – Educatio Nova, no. 5 (December 31, 2020): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/en.2020.5.283-298.
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The topic of the study is one of the last poetry volumes by Czesław Miłosz entitled <em>The Second Space</em> (Pol. <em>Druga przestrzeń</em>), through which the author of the article looks at the complications of Miłosz’s ambiguous religiousness. It is full of tension and contradictions to which the poet tries to address with various results. Miłosz avoids easy solutions, typical for common faith. The article talks about Miłosz’s longing for the explicitness as a form of protest against evil and terror of this world, a form of protest against its ambiguous dimension, which forces the acceptance of passing, suffering, decay, death. It shows various forms of transgression of the antinomy created by the coexistence of beauty and the cruelty of life (i.a. experience of epiphany) and juxtaposes its specific character of his existential axiology.
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Song, Junying. "Woman as the Other—Interpretations of the Gender Wars in “A Woman on a Roof” from the Perspective of Existential Feminism." English Language and Literature Studies 11, no. 1 (2021): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v11n1p63.
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Doris Lessing is one of the Nobel Prize winners and &ldquo;A Woman on a Roof&rdquo; is such a famous short story of hers. In the patriarchal society, women are in the lower status, but the woman in the story struggles bravely to fight against the male power. During her fighting, the woman has doubts and hesitation, but she finally forces the three males to put off their prejudice. This paper focuses on how the woman strives for her own rights, and talks from the perspective of Existential Feminism, taking the main male and female characters in &ldquo;A Woman on a Roof&rdquo; as examples, so as to explore women&rsquo;s self-survival in the dualistic society. Through studying her feminist thinking in the short story, the paper points out that the woman finally transforms her role from the Other to the Subject and then she is in an equal position with the three males. Though the two genders does not reconcile with each other as it seems to be with the purification of rainwater in &ldquo;A Woman on a Roof&rdquo;, the woman has made a big progress in the pursuit of her own transcendence.
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Kletowski, Piotr. "Filmowe powidoki Andrzeja Wajdy." Studia Filmoznawcze 39 (July 17, 2018): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-116x.39.10.
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ANDRZEJ WAJDA'S AFTERIMAGESThe text: Andrzej Wajda’s Afterimages is an analysis of the last film made by the creator of Ashes and Diamonds. This motion picture is a film vision of the last years of Władysław Strzemiński’s life. Strzemiński was an outstanding Polish, avant-garde artist, destroyed by the communist authorities in the 1950s. The situation of the artist in the trap of enslavement is transferred by Wajda into his film, and into the figure of Strzemiński himself — created by Bogusław Linda — who becomes a “medium” throughout Wajda talks about himself — both as a human and as an artist. Thanks to this specific autobiographical perspective, Wajda’s film becomes a deeply original statement, in which we find not only Wajda’s way of seeing human being, the world and the art, but also a description of his tragic situation from the very beginning of his artist’s life and work. Situation which had been projecting on his future existential choices and artistic decisions. Not only Strzemiński’s character, but also his theoretical work — famous, unfinished book The Art of Vision becomes close to Wajda, who adopted the painting theory of the creator of unism for his own film practice. And this “theorethical” practice is also evident in the Afterimages.]]>
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Kupisch, Tanja, Alyona Belikova, Öner Özçelik, Ilse Stangen, and Lydia White. "Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7, no. 1 (2016): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.13031.kup.
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Abstract This paper reports on a study investigating restrictions on definiteness (the Definiteness Effect) in existential constructions in the two languages of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany. Turkish and German differ in how the Definiteness Effect plays out. Definite expressions in German may not occur in affirmative or negative existentials, whereas in Turkish the restriction applies only to affirmative existentials. Participants were adults and fell into two groups: simultaneous bilinguals (2L1) who acquired German before age 3 and early sequential bilinguals (2L1) who acquired German after age 4; there were also monolingual controls. The tasks involved acceptability judgments. Subjects were presented with contexts, each followed by a sentence to be judged, including grammatical and ungrammatical existentials. Results show that the bilinguals, regardless of age of acquisition, make judgments appropriate for each language. They reject definite expressions in negative existentials in German and accept them in Turkish, suggesting distinct grammars.
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Steinberg, Gerald. "Realism, Politics and Culture in Middle East Arms Control Negotiations." International Negotiation 10, no. 3 (2005): 487–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157180605776087534.
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AbstractThe history of arms control efforts in the Middle East consists of numerous initiatives, but very limited results. From the first efforts to negotiate WMD limits and non-proliferation arrangements in the 1960s, through various regional initiatives, frameworks, proposals, discussions, and negotiations, the obstacles to agreement on mutual limitations remained dominant. Frequent discussions in the UN of a Middle East Nuclear Free Zone (MENWFZ), the multi-lateral Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) talks initiated during the 1991 Middle East Peace Conference, and the regional dimensions of global frameworks such as the NPT, CWC, and CTBT have all failed to produce results.Detailed analysis of these efforts highlights the impact of realist security-based factors, the structure and process of the interactions, as well as the cultural and domestic political dimensions. The existential conflicts, reflected in protracted territorial disputes and denials of legitimacy and compounded by a fundamental asymmetry, created a zero-sum framework in the region. The region is characterized by a great deal of instability and competition; this situation, in turn, contributed to the efforts to acquire WMD. In terms of domestic politics, the regional cooperation required for arms limitation is often inconsistent with the dominant articulated political interests and regime perspectives. In addition, misunderstandings and misperceptions frequently occur due to the complexities of cross-cultural communications in the Middle East. Numerous dialogues have not narrowed the gaps or transformed the zero-sum frameworks into cooperative ones. Hopes for the creation of successful regional mechanisms for limiting arms depend on overcoming the obstacles encountered in past efforts.
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Smythe, Shannon Nicole. "The Way of Divine and Human Handing-over: Pauline Apocalyptic, Centering Prayer, and Vulnerable Solidarity." Theology Today 75, no. 1 (2018): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040573618763576.
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The premise of this article is that in order for apocalyptic theology to be a valid form of God-talk, it must be explicit in its existential orientation by articulating the role of apocalyptic Christian practices. Following Barth’s exegetical insights, I first propose that the existential orientation for apocalyptic theology center on the divine handing-over ( paradidōmi) of Jesus in the incarnation and crucifixion, which has its positive human correlate in the apostolic handing-over of the tradition ( paradosis) by disciples like Paul. The confrontation by the apocalypse of the divine handing-over is therefore always existentially oriented. As Jesus hands over the Spirit to us (John 19:30), we are given the power to correspond existentially through the Spirit’s non-identical repetition of the death of Christ in us, to the divine prototype of handing-over through the vocation of witnessing to Jesus. Centering prayer is a Christian practice that functions within such an apocalyptic framework. Through centering prayer’s embodied practice of spiritual kenosis, the Spirit can form us, more and more, in the apostolic way of handing-over Jesus as we come daily into open situations of proclamation in which we are called to give embodied witness to the powerless power of God in the world.
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Liefbroer, Anke I., and Erik Olsman. "Spiritual Talk: Addressing Existential Themes in Interfaith Encounters." International Journal of Practical Theology 24, no. 2 (2020): 252–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2019-0021.
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AbstractSpiritual caregivers increasingly care for clients with other religious/spiritual (R/S) orientations than their own. To date, the ways in which spiritual caregivers deal with these differences have hardly been explored. Based on an analysis of audio records of 34 spiritual caregiver-patient interactions, this paper describes communication techniques used by spiritual caregivers to address existential themes in conversations with patients with various R/S orientations. The model presented describes these techniques regarding the extent to which spiritual caregivers comply with the patient’s R/S orientation and disclose their own R/S orientation. This model can be used to analyze how spiritual caregivers interact with their clients.
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Linden, George W. "The Fourth and Fifth Life Tasks as Existential Challenges." Journal of Individual Psychology 76, no. 1 (2020): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jip.2020.0017.
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DuBose, Todd. "When COVID-19 Meets Pandemic Hope: Existential Care of, and in, the Impossible." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 60, no. 5 (2020): 564–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167820944645.
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This article is an adaptation of a talk given to the International Institute for Existential-Humanistic Psychology in Beijing, China, March 14, 2020. I describe the existential concerns embedded in the biological discourse related to COVID-19, and offer the proposal that hope is as pandemic as COVID-19, if not more so, and invite us to think of the category, ”pandemic,” in existential terms. Shortly after this talk was given, I found out that I tested positive with COVID-19, thus adding a lived existentiality to what was written.
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Westman, Alida S. "Existential Anxiety as Related to Conceptualization of Self and of Death, Denial of Death, and Religiosity." Psychological Reports 71, no. 3_suppl (1992): 1064–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.71.3f.1064.
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82 students completed a questionnaire which measured their existential anxiety as described by Yalom, conceptualization of self and of death, denial of death, and religiosity. For these students, scores on existential anxiety correlated with identity confusion, feeling responsible toward others but fearing emotional closeness with them, seeing people as fundamentally different and not seeing oneself as living on in one's tasks or projects. Their existential anxiety scores were not related to a particular concept of death, but death was more likely to be seen as cold and denied. Their existential anxiety seemed symptomatic of adjustment problems for which religiosity was not helpful. Specific suggestions for further research are made.
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Sari, Risnovita, Ikhwanuddin Nasution, Eddy Setia, and Mulyadi Mulyadi. "President Indonesia’s Speeches: The Talk Meets Action in Functional Analysis." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) : Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (2020): 112–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v3i1.713.
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This study discusses the experiential function in Jokowi’s speeches. The experiential function deals with the processes found in the speeches. There are six processes in the experiential function such as material, mental, verbal, behavioural, relational, and existential process. The study is aimed to identify the processes and find out the dominant process in the speeches. The speeches consist of 325 clauses, and the dominant process is material process with 124 clauses or 38,15%, followed by relational process with 79 process or 24,3%, mental process with 51 clauses or 15,7%, existential process 33 clauses or 10,1%, behavioural process 20 clauses or 6,1%, and the least is verbal process 18 clauses or 5,5%. It shows that Jokowi’s speeches are the reflection of his slogan; ‘work, work, and work’. Jokowi has done a lot of work and he explained it in his speeches.
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Čechová, Mariana. "Iconization of the deathly affliction in Andersen’s Fairytales1." Ars Aeterna 10, no. 1 (2018): 60–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0006.
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Abstract The contribution focuses on a thematological interpretation of the existentials of misery and extinction, using a corpus of selected fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. In explaining the specificity of Andersen’s concept and presenting life’s givenness (the parameters of being-in-the-world) he verifies the relevance of several existentials which were explained by Heidegger in connection with the use of factual existence (Dasein). The use of existentials as real facts in describing a textual model of the world is justified by the thematic concept as a proposition of modes of existence by Ricouer.
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Fall, Kevin A., Gail K. Roaten, and Stephanie E. Eberts. "An Existential Approach to Adoptive Identity Development in Adulthood." Family Journal 20, no. 4 (2012): 441–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480712451250.
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As adoption in our society continues to increase, mental health professionals are faced with working with the coexisting intrapersonal, familial, and social issues. The formation of an adoptive identity is one of the more critical and complicated tasks facing adoptees. Existentialism is a counseling theory that is well suited to address the issues related to adoptive identity formation in adulthood. An overview of the philosophy of existentialism as well as a detailed exploration of how to use the givens of existence along with the authentic relationship is provided as a framework for helping adults explore and develop a healthy self in context.
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Cohen, Chaim Charles, Gail Auslander, Yossi Freier Dror, and Gabriel S. Breuer. "Functional and Existential Tasks of Family Caregiving for End-of-Life, Hospitalized Older Adults." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 42, no. 7 (2016): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20160406-04.
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Barska, Katarzyna. "Theory of the Whole and the Part – Ontological Perspective (E. Husserl, R. Ingarden)." Studia Humana 4, no. 1 (2015): 12–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sh-2015-0007.
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Abstract The purpose of the paper is demonstrate the thesis that Ingarden's ontological system allows a better understanding of the “part-whole” problem then previous theories. Especially, if we take into account the existential ontology of Ingarden, which refers to Husserl “part-whole” theory, we can see that development of terms made by Ingarden sheds new light on old problems. In this context, particularly important is to distinguish between two existential moments: contingancy/inseparatness, because thanks to them we can talk about many different types of relationships and hence many types of objects.
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Rusevich, Tatiana, and Alina Tsys. "AN EXISTENTIAL APPROACH TO INTERIOR DESIGN." Current problems of architecture and urban planning, no. 58 (November 30, 2020): 272–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2077-3455.2020.58.272-282.
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The article discusses an integrated approach to interior design, taking into account the factors of perception of space, shape, color in accordance with the type of activity, emotional, personal characteristics of the user. Issues concerning the existence of a person in the environment, in the surrounding space, are touched upon today by a number of sciences, these are architectural ecology, ecopsychology, psycho-design, psychology of perception. At the same time, it is important to understand and evaluate the levels of spatial structures that provide a person with safe living in an artificially created environment. When assessing the architectural environment, the geometric and existential approaches are distinguished, which are inseparable in programming the results of human perception of spatial structures and, above all, the interior space. Geometry, shape, light and color are those components that can realize not only the functional component of the interior, but also program and correct the emotional state of a person, depending on his personal characteristics.
 The psychophysical effect of color is one of the conditions for normal human life. Among the components of emotionality of color perception is the concept of association. Just as the sun and fire carry an associative impression of warmth, so yellow and red colors evoke warm feelings and invigorate. A person is able to actively respond to color visual images, among which the harmony of colors belongs to the first place. It is proved that the harmony of the material environment of the interior is a natural and constant human need.
 The ability to evoke an aesthetic reaction to what you see, aesthetic pleasure, the joy of meeting beauty is a prerequisite for harmony. The depth and strength of such experiences is a person's personal property, his spiritual wealth.
 Different attitudes towards colors appear in certain age groups. Due to the color symbols, you can create a certain mood that is necessary for a given interior. The overall color scheme in light tones also contributes to increased lighting.
 The combination of cold and warm colors in the room creates a working mood.
 Thus, we can talk about the equipment of the professions of an architect and designer with knowledge and methods of designing spatial structures from the point of view of taking into account the physiological, physical and psychological needs of a person living in an artificially created environment.
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Tepic, Jugoslav. "Ethical and ontological dimension of Kierkegaard’s perception of freedom." Filozofija i drustvo 30, no. 4 (2019): 610–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1904610t.
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Starting with the point of freedom being one of unavoidable ideas of existential philosophy, as well as philosophy in general, we shall consider ethical and ontological aspects of contemplation of freedom in Kierkegaard?s philosophy. We deem that existential philosophy, ?contemplated? in all its variations, represents the very horizon or manner of philosophical comprehension of freedom phenomena, where freedom is integrally observed, thus allowing us to talk about unique bliss of ontological and ethical dimension, both of those appearing to be equally important. Therefore, freedom dominates the Kierkegaard?s determination of individual, co-determines all its leap stages but also continually makes possible the sense of human existence.
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Kępiński, Marcin. "The wall of silence surrounding literature and remembrance: Varlam Shalamov’s “Artificial Limbs”, Etc. as a metaphor of the soviet empire." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 57, no. 2 (2020): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.57.01.
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Literature of an autobiographical character acquires a special significance in the world of the bloody tragic events of the 20th century, i.e. the Holocaust, the Second World War, the realities of the Nazi and Soviet totalitarianisms, death camps, and forced labour. Those are the recollections of experienced trauma which shatters identity, and of existential experiences of a borderline nature, of which Shalamov, a witness to the epoch, felt an obligation to talk. An anthropological analysis of Varlam Shalamov’s short story titled Artificial Limbs, Etc. enables one to grasp the role of memory and autobiographical testimony as a kind of cultural and literary antidote to silence and memory distorted by the Soviet totalitarianism. The author of Kolyma Tales offered a faithful description of a world outside the‘human’ world, one which was almost impossible to describe due to its inherent moral void, level of violence, and fear of the authorities who made people forget about the crimes, victims, and oppressors.
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Dumitru, Mircea, and Frederick Kroon. "What to Say When There Is Nothing to Talk about." Crítica (México D. F. En línea) 40, no. 120 (2008): 97–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2008.1002.
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In Reference without Referents, Mark Sainsbury aims to provide an account of reference that honours the common-sense view that sentences containing empty names like “Vulcan” and “Santa Claus” are entirely intelligible, and that many such sentences —“Vulcan doesn’t exist”, “Many children believe that Santa Claus will give them presents at Christmas”, etc.— are literally true. Sainsbury’s account endorses the Davidsonian program in the theory of meaning, and combines this with a commitment to Negative Free Logic, which holds that all simple sentences containing empty names are false. In this critical review, we pose a number of problems for this account. In particular, we question the ability of Negative Free Logic to make appropriate sense of the truth of familiar sentences containing empty names, including negative existential claims like “Vulcan doesn’t exist”.
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Bálint, Péter. "Dialogues of judgement and dream interpretation in folk tales." Boletín de Literatura Oral 11 (July 19, 2021): 117–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17561/blo.v11.6041.
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Some of the kings in the narrative actually follow Kantian orientation in their judgment and allow the right of necessity to enter into their thinking: they listen to others or (the good sense of) the truthful heart because of their limited or deficient knowledge. Others, delighted with their self-belief and mania for power, throw scorn on the law, on mercy, pardon, and forgiveness, and let themselves be led by anger, stupidity, complacency, stigma and desire for exclusion. In the tale narratives, they are further represented as scholars/wisemen, fortune-tellers, the ‘foresighted’, ancient old men, old women, wizards, taltoses (in the words of folklorist Ilona Nagy “mysterious people of fate”), doubles/doppelgangers, or animals with extraordinary abilities (the ability to speak human languages, or to transfigure themselves), prestigious kings from another country, ministers, advisors, witches who deceive the king (not uncommonly Gypsy women), depending on whether the intention is to link the giver of advice and the meaning of what he says to the sacred (biblical) or the profane (sometimes mythical), as it illuminates his/her existential character.
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Parham, William D. "Personal and Professional Issues for Counseling Center Psychologists." Counseling Psychologist 20, no. 1 (1992): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000092201005.
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Three key experiences that confront counseling center psychologists 7-10 years postdoctorate include burnout, feeling overwhelmed by commitments, and aging. These experiences prompt counseling center psychologists to reevaluate their career and life goals and to search for a satisfactory resolution to their existential concerns. Factors such as race, gender, and personality, as well as other life circumstances, influence the way in which the reevaluation and action tasks are approached.
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Серафимова, В., and V. Serafimova. "“Moscow Fairy Tales” of A.A. Kabakov in the Context of his Prose. Poetics. Concept of Person." Scientific Research and Development. Modern Communication Studies 6, no. 4 (2017): 74–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5976f843642321.36848626.
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The article considers the transformation of folk stories in cycle “Moscow fairy tales” of A. Kabakov. The existential questions of human existence — life, death, love, children, relationships between the characters, are revealed with a detailed analysis of the poetics of works, analysis of the language, expressive means, metaphors, folklore motifs of fear, road, choice. Metaphors “not a polluted life”, “elusive existence”, “vanishing time” will be decisive in revealing the basic thoughts of the writer’s prose. The concept of man in the prose of the writer is defined. Man, according to Kabakov, “is not an object, but the subject of one’s destiny.” “Religion does not make a difference.”
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KARIMI, ARASH, HENG ZHANG, and JIA-HUAI YOU. "Restricted Chase Termination for Existential Rules: A Hierarchical Approach and Experimentation." Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 21, no. 1 (2020): 4–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1471068420000101.
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AbstractThe chase procedure for existential rules is an indispensable tool for several database applications, where its termination guarantees the decidability of these tasks. Most previous studies have focused on the skolem chase variant and its termination analysis. It is known that the restricted chase variant is a more powerful tool in termination analysis provided a database is given. But all-instance termination presents a challenge since the critical database and similar techniques do not work. In this paper, we develop a novel technique to characterize the activeness of all possible cycles of a certain length for the restricted chase, which leads to the formulation of a framework of parameterized classes of the finite restricted chase, called $k$-$\mathsf{safe}(\Phi)$ rule sets. This approach applies to any class of finite skolem chase identified with a condition of acyclicity. More generally, we show that the approach can be applied to the hierarchy of bounded rule sets previously only defined for the skolem chase. Experiments on a collection of ontologies from the web show the applicability of the proposed methods on real-world ontologies.
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Arndt, Jamie, and Matthew Vess. "Tales from Existential Oceans: Terror Management Theory and How the Awareness of Our Mortality Affects Us All." Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2, no. 2 (2008): 909–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00079.x.
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Ruiz-Moral, Roger. "Person-Centered Medicine: An Existential Outline beyond the Biopsychosocial Model." International Journal of Person Centered Medicine 6, no. 3 (2016): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v6i3.594.
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Starting from the idea that “medical problems” are always “problems of living” that reflect the existence of a “vital dimension” that is different from the biological, psychological and sociocultural dimensions, this article describes central features of this dimension. From this viewpoint, its inescapable importance in the clinical act is highlighted, an importance that shapes the tasks that are inherent to it – diagnosis and decision making – but also the very process of the doctor-patient relationship. It is argued that “the subjective truth” implicit in the “vital dimension” (in the “existential self”) can only be approached through reflection and interpretation in the context of a dialogue between the professional and the patient/family with the objective of deciding on the action(s) that can better lead to reaching some concrete wishes or desires (values), that in turn require the participants to take on obligations and responsibilities. This relational perspective defines the “person centered” clinical approach as a practice based on dialogue, importantly involving deliberation and collaboration (“collaborative deliberation”). In this dialogue, the emotions, integral elements of the life dimension of its protagonists, play a decisive role both in attaining clinical effectiveness and in building and maintaining the relational process (encouraging or reducing trust) that is indispensable in a clinical activity that is an eminently moral act. Finally, the main challenges that doctors face when implementing this clinical focus and the educational challenges it entails are outlined.
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ALVIANO, MARIO, WOLFGANG FABER, NICOLA LEONE, and MARCO MANNA. "Disjunctive datalog with existential quantifiers: Semantics, decidability, and complexity issues." Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 12, no. 4-5 (2012): 701–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1471068412000257.
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AbstractDatalog is one of the best-known rule-based languages, and extensions of it are used in a wide context of applications. An important Datalog extension is Disjunctive Datalog, which significantly increases the expressivity of the basic language. Disjunctive Datalog is useful in a wide range of applications, ranging from Databases (e.g., Data Integration) to Artificial Intelligence (e.g., diagnosis and planning under incomplete knowledge). However, in recent years an important shortcoming of Datalog-based languages became evident, e.g. in the context of data-integration (consistent query-answering, ontology-based data access) and Semantic Web applications: The language does not permit any generation of and reasoning with unnamed individuals in an obvious way. In general, it is weak in supporting many cases of existential quantification. To overcome this problem, Datalog∃ has recently been proposed, which extends traditional Datalog by existential quantification in rule heads. In this work, we propose a natural extension of Disjunctive Datalog and Datalog∃, called Datalog∃,˅, which allows both disjunctions and existential quantification in rule heads and is therefore an attractive language for knowledge representation and reasoning, especially in domains where ontology-based reasoning is needed. We formally define syntax and semantics of the language Datalog∃,˅, and provide a notion of instantiation, which we prove to be adequate for Datalog∃,˅. A main issue of Datalog∃ and hence also of Datalog∃,˅ is that decidability is no longer guaranteed for typical reasoning tasks. In order to address this issue, we identify many decidable fragments of the language, which extend, in a natural way, analog classes defined in the non-disjunctive case. Moreover, we carry out an in-depth complexity analysis, deriving interesting results which range from Logarithmic Space to Exponential Time.
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Krieger, Pauline, Markus Kattenbeck, Bernd Ludwig, Johannes Helmbrecht, and Ioannis Giannopoulos. "Hey You! Let’s Talk. Dialogue-Initiatives Revisited for Wayfinding Instructions." AGILE: GIScience Series 1 (July 15, 2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-1-11-2020.
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Abstract. This paper presents Human-Computer Interaction design guidelines for interactive wayfinding assistance systems which provide on-line route instructions. These design suggestions are based on a corpus of human-to-human, on-line, landmark-based route instructions in German language which were gathered by means of an in-situ study involving pairs of participants. Based on the description of this collection, which is made publicly available, an in-depth analysis of the corpus is presented: This analysis reveals the importance of establishing Common Ground through existential-presentative constructions which have, up until now, not been taken into account in presenting route instructions to users of pedestrian navigation systems. These syntactical constructs provide the empirical ground for two important design suggestions: Systems should, first, ask for explicit feedback whether a salient object is recognised by users before referring to this object in a route instruction. Second, a mode of negotiating Common Ground once it was lost should be implemented, which can be initiated by the user. The results reveal the importance of the state-tracking capabilities of wayfinding assistance systems.
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Gusev, Maxim A. "PETER VAN INWAGEN’S FIVE THESES OF BEING AND HIS CONTROVERSY WITH THE EXISTENTIALPHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION." Вестник Пермского университета. Философия. Психология. Социология, no. 2 (2019): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2019-2-180-193.
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The article considers P. van Inwagen’s theses about being, including the thesis «being is not an activity». In formulating that Inwagen argues with the existential-phenomenological tradition. The article aims to investigate the causes of the misunderstanding between Inwagen and the existential-phenomenological tradition. It is shown that Inwagen treats this tradition as if it were an «objectivist» approach, just like the analytic tradition but presenting another answer to Inwagen’s meta-ontological question. Ignoring the radical difference between the existential-phenomenological approach and the analytical, «objectivistic» approach leads Inwagen to misunderstanding of Heidegger’s statements about being. From the «objectivist» analytical standpoint, the question of existence has nothing to do with the course of our experience, with fact something has been given to us, or with giving meaning to something, etc. That is why Inwagen wonders how existence can be associated with an «activity» at all. For the same reason, Inwagen does not understand why the existential-phenomenological tradition’s adherents talk about some differences in such «activities». From Inwagen’s point of view, all the differences lie in the «nature» of things, not in being. From the «objectivist» point of view, it seems exactly like that, because it is impossible to understand «from the outside», for example, the convergence of awareness and being-in-the-world. Within Inwagen’s objectivist position, Heidegger’s philosophy can only be comprehended as anthropology or psychology, which are studies limited to the topic of human beings or their inner world. The article concludes that although one can deny the phenomenological approach in general, but it is possible to show from the inside of that approach that what Heidegger says in his philosophy is, firstly, meaningful and, secondly, relates to ontology and not to anthropology or psychology.
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Poluliashina, Daria I. "REPRESENTATION OF IDENTITY CRISIS IN KSENIYA BUKSHA’S BOOK «OPENS INWARD»." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 2 (2020): 198–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-198-203.
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This article is devoted to analyses of representation of identity crisis disconnection between personality and character, consciousness diffusion, existential search of my own self) in Kseniya Buksha’s book «Opens inward». Firstly, we analyse complicated structural subject organisation of the text (diegetic and extradiegetic narrator, focalisators), which coexist in one statement. Secondly, it is investigated how diegetic space correlates with internal world of heroes. We come to conclusion 18 tales of this book are the narrative of subject of speech. He narrates about his traumatic experience by the voices of the heroes who can be interpreted as refl ections of fragmentary, non-intact consciousness. Invariant plot of trying to restore a defi cit of identity is constructed by unit cumulative scheme. Final disaster leads subject either to gaining his identity or to fi nal catastrophe. Analysing of the scheme of the plot, composition, subject system, system of cross-cutting personages and details allows to make a conclusion about structural unity based on invariant sense. It is the idea of overcoming of existential inertia.
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Kunitsyna, E. Yu, and R. I. Pegov. "Hybridization as a Form of Media “Extension”: Stand-up Technologies in Infotainment Discourse (A Case Study of the Jim Jefferies Late Night Talk Show)." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 18, no. 6 (2019): 150–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2019-18-6-150-165.
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Purpose. The article addresses the issue of media discourse hybridization, the latter being the result of discourse-and-genre transgression and the source of new discursive practices, particularly, infotainment. The growing demands of society for information and the increasing worldwide popularity of humorous programs (especially stand-up comedies) have triggered the emergence of a unique media product – The Jim Jefferies Show. The salient feature of the talk show is that its host and producer is a famous stand-up comedian. Jim Jefferies’ versatile, controversial, belief-challenging and thought-provoking satirical comedy has won him admiration and respect across the USA and abroad. Results. Adopting an interdisciplinary, integrated approach, we explore the problem of media discourse technologization and game-ization. The research is based on the premises of theory of discourse, pragma- and sociolinguistic discourse studies, critical discourse analysis, philosophy of discourse and philosophy of play and games. We argue that incorporating stand-up technologies, also referred to as attractions, into informational discourse brings about a powerful discursive shift and comprehensive hybridization manifested in multiple interdiscursivity (with a variety of types and kinds of discourse involved: informational and entertaining, institutional [status bound] and personal [personality bound], existential and habitual; critical, political, comical; simulative), multiple destination (along with information-offering [news] and entertainment [fun], opinion, critique, subversion, shock) and multiple functions (informational, orientational, that of solidarity vs. agonistic, actional, axiological and “ludenic”). Conclusion. The new discursive practice as an extension of media and man, homo ludens, meets demands and values of the consumer society, agrees with the postmodernist Zeitgeist and reveals a carnivalesque mediachronotope.
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Shults, F. LeRon. "Dis-integrating Psychology and Theology." Journal of Psychology and Theology 40, no. 1 (2012): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164711204000104.
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This essay explores the dis-integrative dynamics within the ongoing process of relating the disciplines of psychology and theology suggesting that such dissolutive forces can play an important and valuable role in the dialogue. Healthy development requires that we sometimes let things fall apart. The main sections of the article point to the potentially generative power of dis-integrating psychology theology selves and gods. The conclusion addresses the existential fear and desire that often characterize human attempts to hold it all together, i.e., the tasks of “integration” in all its forms.
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Langle, A. "Existential Analysis of Freedom. On the Practical and Psychotherapeutic Substantiation of Personal Freedom (Part 2)." Консультативная психология и психотерапия 27, no. 1 (2019): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2019270108.
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Human freedom requires the ability to release oneself. Responsible shaping of the process of will requires consistency (internal and external) in the dialogue (internal and external). The second part of the paper (the first was published in issue 4, 2018) attempts to methodically approach the source of freedom — the place where the inner “speaking” is revealed in us. The more a person relates to this inner “talk to him/herself”, the freer he/she is, and, at the same time, more responsible. Practical work to achieve freedom in psychotherapy is demonstrated by the example at the end of the article.
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Belarev, Alexander. "Scientific tales by Kurd Lasswitz: between literature, science and philosophy." Children's Readings: Studies in Children's Literature 19, no. 1 (2021): 152–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/2304-5817-2021-1-19-152-167.
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The article deals with the works of German science fiction writer Kurd Lasswitz (1848–1910). The article provides a brief description of the main themes and directions of the writer’s work. Lasswitz was the creator of the scientific tale genre (das wissenschaftliche Märchen), in which he had set the task of building new relationships between science and literature, nature and man, the animate particle and the cosmic whole. In accordance with the spirit of the fin de siècle era the scientific tale represented a new, post-positivist ideal of knowledge. The key theme of Lasswitz’s fiction was the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.Mars became for Lasswitz a place where the intelligent extraterrestrial beings have realized an ideal society in which ethics and technology are NOT in conflict. Lasswitz was not a neo-Kantian philosopher only, he was also an active popularizer of Kant’s philosophy. He was striving to create a Kantian utopia in literature. For Lasswitz Mars became the realization of this utopia. Also Lasswitz sought to give literary embodiment to the ideas of another philosopher, Gustav Theodor Fechner. Following his philosophy, Lasswitz develops environmental and existential issues of the coexistence of intelligent plants with humans. In Lasswitz’ story for children “The Escaped Flower” (1910), one can trace how in Lasswitz’ science fiction (scientific tale) the themes of the habitability of space (Mars), science and technology of the future interact with the ideas of Kant and Fechner.
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Nørreklit, Hanne. "Managing individuality: myths versus art." Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism 1, no. 2 (2011): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/propracon.v1i2.16664.
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The purpose of this article is to establish the symbolic forms that are presently used in selected mainstream management models and to assess whether the connection between leadership and individual human reality would be improved if the management models were fundamentally inspired by those used by a successful manager and artist.The theoretical starting point of this article is Cassirer’s (Cassirer 1999) philosophy of symbolic forms. A symbolic form is “a way of having a life world” (own translation) (Cassirer 1999). In a symbolic form, a person discovers and unfolds an ability to build his own universe as an ideal universe which enables the person to “understand and interpret, to articulate and organize, synthesize and universalize his human experience” (Cassirer 1962: 221). Symbolic forms such as art, science, myth and religion thus have common features and structures in their basic function of creating common human existence. When the symbolic form is science, ideals of objectivity and precision in the description of phenomena and their relations dominate man’s formation of his universe. In art, man unfolds an ability to be subjective and create empathetic insight into matters and their diversity (Cassirer 1962). Where science as symbolic form conceptualizes objects, art teaches us empathetic insight. The symbolic forms of art and science perceive a phenomenon differently. For example, science will perhaps see a constellation as a trigonometric function, whereas it may be considered by art as a “Hogarthian shape of beauty” (own translation) (Cassirer 1999: 62). Like the symbolic form of art, the symbolic form of myth builds on emotional sympathy, but differs by believing in the existence of the constellation. It is used to create a natural or magical unity of life. Monotheistic religions also include ideas of striving for a sense of unity, but here the idea is to achieve a universal, ethical sense of unity in an individualized society. Thus the symbolic form of religion helps the individual to choose between right and wrong.With this in mind, we examine the use of symbolic forms embedded in selected mainstream management models. Subsequently, we study the symbolic forms embedded in the management discourse as the concept is unfolded by the successful Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera, Kasper Holten, when he talks about management, with a view to determining the extent to which this practice differs from the symbolic forms embedded in the mainstream management models. The analysis shows that mainstream management models are primarily rooted in the symbolic form of science, although they tend to gradually include the symbolic form of religion or the symbolic form of myth. Generally speaking, the mainstream management models tend to exercise power over the individual’s emphatic insight and autonomous reflection and thereby constrain the scope for human creativity and individuality. Distinctively, Kasper Holten’s management discourse integrates the symbolic forms of art and science. With art as the dominant symbolic form, Kasper rejects new public management’s perception about opera and the management of art while at the same time – through discourses that bind to the individuality of the network of players – forming personal and social identities which come together to realize a world of existential ideas about operas in general as well as opera in particular.The article is relevant because it provides insight into the ways in which management models, through the use of myth and science as symbolic forms, exercise influence on human existence and interaction and thereby influence the scope for human freedom and exercise of power and also because it provides insight into the features and structures concerning human existence and co-existence from which mainstream management models cut themselves off by not using art as a form of consciousness. The constructive aspect is a parallel outline of features and structures in a new management discourse which are better suited for postmodern society.
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Huntington, Patricia. "Globalizing Feminism: Taking Refuge in the Liberated Mind." Hypatia 35, no. 2 (2020): 355–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.8.
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One of the most pressing and urgent academic tasks of the day is to dismantle the persistent Eurocentrism of philosophy. In the quest to remedy the white, middle-class, heteronormative, and European biases of philosophy's initial expressions, feminist theorizing has cultivated culturally and ethnically specific forms, intersectional analyses, and global articulations. Buddhism beyond Gender and Women and Buddhist Philosophy breathe new vitality into these pursuits. Both books underscore the immense potential of the core doctrines of Buddhist philosophy, such as the nonsubstantialist view of self, the nondualistic outlook, and the ontological premise of the interdependence of all beings (pratītyasamutpāda), for overcoming Western hierarchies, reified conceptions of identity, and pernicious dichotomies. The two women represented in these books—Rita Gross herself (1943–2015) and Kim Iryŏp, a Buddhist nun (1896–1971)—ground philosophy in a narrative, existential journey and in their personal practices as Buddhists. In contrast with Gross's second-wave methodology and revisionist aims, Park's contribution to comparative feminist scholarship underscores the originality of Iryŏp's attempt to rethink Buddhist ideas in a contemporary feminist context. Particularly compelling is that Park unequivocally defends existential narrative as a genre of philosophy largely through an analysis of the Buddhist nun's love letters.
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Chaudron, Craig, and Kate Parker. "Discourse Markedness and Structural Markedness." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 12, no. 1 (1990): 43–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100008731.
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This study investigates second language acquisition of English noun phrases in discourse, examining the effect of discourse markedness and structural markedness on the development of noun phrase use. English L2 noun phrase forms are examined within three universal discourse contexts: current, known, and new reference to topics. The targeted noun phrases forms include ø anaphora, pronouns and nouns with markers of definiteness and indefiniteness, including left dislocation and existential phrases. Based on expectedness within discourse, the least marked discourse context is reference to a current topic, and the most marked context is the introduction of a new referent as topic. Based on formal complexity, ø anaphora is the least marked structural form, and left-dislocated and existential noun phrases are the most marked. Free production and elicited imitation recall tasks, involving picture sequences that manipulated the three discourse contexts, were used to test Japanese learners' acquisition of noun phrase forms. They were evaluated by comparison with NS production. The results support predictions that L2 learners distinguish between discourse contexts, acquiring more targetlike forms in the least marked context first, and that they acquire the least marked structural forms earlier than the more marked ones.
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Holdier, A. G. "Kierkegaard’s Three Spheres and Cinematic Fairy Tale Pedagogy in Frozen, Moana, and Tangled." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 33, no. 2 (2021): 105–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.2018-0027.
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Although Disney films are sometimes denigrated as popular or “low” art forms, this article argues that they often engage deeply with, and thereby communicate, significant moral truths. The capitalistic enterprise of contemporary modern cinema demands that cinematic moral pedagogy be sublimated into non-partisan forms, often by substituting secular proxies for otherwise divine or spiritual components. By adapting Søren Kierkegaard’s tripartite existential anthropology of the self, I analyze the subjective experiences of the protagonists in three recent animated fairy tales—Disney’s Frozen, Moana, and Tangled—to demonstrate how these princess movies bridge the imaginative gap between the mundane and the divine.
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SILVA, Ellen Fernanda Gomes da, and Carmem BARRETO. "Angústia como Constitutiva da Existência: Ressonâncias para a Clínica Psicológica." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 26, no. 2 (2020): 220–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2020v26n2.9.
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This article aims to present the understanding of the anguish as constitutive of human existence, from the hermeneutic phenomenology. In this perspective, we intend to weave comprehensive possibilities that may present resonances to think the psychological clinic as a possible place of reception of the anguish. For this, we will talk with some dimensions of the thinking of Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Boss, in the search for subsidies that, because they present another possibility of understanding of anguish, not tied to theoretical-explanatory premises, make it possible to think of the clinical action linked to the original mode as the existential phenomena happen.
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Olshin, Benjamin B. "How to Talk about Physical Reality? Other Models, Other Questions." Journal of Philosophy and Culture 5, no. 1 (2014): 25–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jpc.v5i1.2.
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Investigating the nature of our apparent physical reality is a profound challenge. Our models from physics, while powerful, do not treat reality per se. The famous painter Paul Gaugin articulated the relevant existential questions famously in a grand painting - questions that also give the painting its title: D’où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous? People of religious faith, of course, assume that one can know the ultimate truth of reality, and, then, know the answers to these questions. But even in such a case, there is the issue of how a believer has obtained their faith, through a revelatory or other epistemological process. Joseph Campbell grasped the difficulty of framing the key questions, noting that, “the transcendent is unknowable and unknown. God is transcendent, finally, of anything like the name ‘God.’ God is beyond names and forms.” This metaphysical puzzle concern, in part, models. Physics uses models, and such models are powerful tools: they allow us to navigate through the physical reality we live in, and manipulate aspects of it. However, the models do not lead humanity closer to any ultimate truth, or even give us a clue that there might be an ultimate truth. The problem of using models and talking about reality can be viewed in a new way however, using certain structures in Chinese philosophy. The ancient Dao De Jing states: “The heavens and the earth are not partial to institutionalized morality”. We can extend that to say, “The universe is not partial to institutionalized models”.
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Kuzin, Vasiliy. "Art Education as a Model for Overcoming the Crisis in Higher Education." Ideas and Ideals 13, no. 1-1 (2021): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2021-13.1.1-42-51.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the existential crisis of the higher school teacher in modern Russia, diagnosed by professors P. A. Orekhovsky and V. I. Razumov in the article ‘Carnival Time: Russian Higher School and Science in the Postmodern Era’. Various aspects of the activity of a higher school teacher are considered: economic, social, and psychological. The author diagnoses the inflation of higher education in modern Russia. Due to inflation, there comes its obvious devaluation. At the same time, the development of digital technologies radically simplifies access to information and thereby deprives a teacher of the traditional status of a unique carrier of knowledge. Therefore, in modern conditions, a university teacher can not only be a polymath, transmitting knowledge. It is noted that the most important professional quality of a teacher is to be an expert in their field, to possess inalienable skills that cannot be translated into an objectified form. The presence of inalienable, non-objectifiable skills is the main condition for overcoming (or mitigating) the existential crisis of a higher school teacher. One of the main tasks of the teacher is to give a personal expert assessment of the student’s activities. Personal, non-formalized interaction between the teacher and the student is the basis of education in the art field, and it could be a model for higher education in general, become one of the possible ways out of the current crisis of higher education.
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Volodymyr Yatchenko, Oksana Oliinyk, Volodymyr Yatchenko, Oksana Oliinyk, and Volodymyr Yatchenko, Oksana Oliinyk Volodymyr Yatchenko, Oksana Oliinyk. "THE PROBLEM OF FINITENESS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN UKRAINIAN FOLKLORE." Almanac of Ukrainian Studies, no. 26 (2020): 100–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-2626/2020.26.15.
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The article analyzes the existential problems of life, death and immortality in Ukrainian folklore (based on Ukrainian fairy tales). In the corpus of Ukrainian folk tales there are widely used topics, which in European philosophy and literature are called "tragic foundations of human existence" - awareness of the inevitability of death in the earthly existence of man, the search for forms of individual immortality. In Ukrainian fairy tales there is a dual attitude of the individual to the inevitability of his own death. On the one hand, there is the motive of reconciliation with the fate of human destiny, and in order to relieve the painful feeling of one's own finitude, the instruction on the higher meaning of the existence of death is forced. Death is justified because it appears as the prevention of the absurdity of infinite human existence or as an obstacle to the debauchery of the whims and dangerous wishes of the individual, or ultimately as the punishment of people for violating the commandments of the Supreme Spiritual Creature. In other words, death appears in a number of fairy tales as the expression of the highest world justice. At the same time, death mostly appears in fairy tales as an objectified pagan idea of Death as a concrete living creature with its whims, sympathies and weaknesses. The problem of finding ways to achieve immortality is traced in Ukrainian fairy tales in two ways. Most often, this search unfolds in the plane of the victory of the hero of the fairy tale over death, or through the imprisonment of death, or through the marriage of the hero to a divine being. This is a very common motive in the tales around the world. Less common is the motive of achieving immortality through the moral self-improvement of the hero, his compliance to the moral commandments of God. This is already a reflection in fairy tales of the influence of Christianity on the spiritual world of the ancestors of modern Ukrainians.
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Lewis-Williams, J. D. "From Illustration to Social Intervention: Three Nineteenth-century | Xam Myths and their Implications for Understanding San Rock Art." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23, no. 2 (2013): 241–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774313000401.
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This article addresses the relationship between southern African San myth and rock art. Three nineteenth-century | Xam San narratives, recorded verbatim, are shown to contain specifiable entities of meaning, here dubbed ‘nuggets’, that are easily misunderstood or missed entirely. Each performance of a myth developed or abbreviated the significances of these ‘nuggets’ as the narrator tailored the story to suit the social, political and economic circumstances of the moment. Similarly, San rock art contains painted ‘nuggets’ that, for the San, situated the panels in one way or another at the interface between existential realms. Each in its own way, certain tales and images both played a social role by emphasizing the functions of ritual specialists who were believed to move between realms as they healed the community of physical, economic and social ills, especially tension between affines.
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Bolmsjö, Ingrid, and Göran Hermerén. "Conflicts of Interest: experiences of close relatives of patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis." Nursing Ethics 10, no. 2 (2003): 186–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0969733003ne593oa.
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It is well known that close relatives of terminally ill patients endure great emotional stress. Many factors, such as existential concerns, contribute to the distress of these relatives. In this study, interviews were conducted to explore experiences concerning life restrictions, emotional distress, and limited support, in a group of close relatives of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The purpose was to identify, illuminate and clarify ethical problems related to these experiences. The results indicate that close relatives of patients with ALS need someone to talk to, as well as more information about the disease and its process. Furthermore, the study illustrates how ethical problems are related to choices and conflicts, and that a process including shared decision making is often an ideal when trying to find a solution to ethical problems.
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Cervo, Guilia Roberta. "Outlines for a Phenomenology of Freedom." Phänomenologische Forschungen 2018, no. 1 (2018): 89–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/1000108078.
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The article deals with the question of phenomenological ethics, comparing Husserl’s and Fink’s ways of understanding the phenomenological reduction and thereby the pedagogical tasks of phenomenology, whose existential meaning lies in the “doctrine of freedom” (“Lehre von der Freiheit”), which is in turn closely linked with the problem of the beginning of philosophizing, since the phenomenological reduction presupposes itself. A comparison between Fink’s and Patocka’s views of freedom as transcendence (expressed by the concepts of hermitry and sacrifice), as well as a phenomenological reading of Nietzsche’s transvaluation of values in relation to the educational theme of the Idealbildung, will let us see how Fink’s cosmological philosophy, having its hermeneutic keystone in the phenomenon of play, still has phenomenological features and pedagogical implications, being describable as a phenomenology of freedom, whose idea of freedom as “experiment” or as man’s “self-production” presents interesting analogies with Arendt’s view of action.
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Murniati, Wahyuni. "EDUTAINMENT DALAM PENGEMBANGAN MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES TEORI HOWARD GARDNER PADA ANAK USIA DINI." ThufuLA: Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan Guru Raudhatul Athfal 6, no. 2 (2018): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/thufula.v6i2.4775.
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<p><em>There are nine intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner. Nine intelligences include: intelligence language, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, rhythmic-musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic and existential. When speaking of the intelligence then of course it's going to talk about a person's brain. In theory the brain, it is said that the brain will only absorb information if the brain is in a state of happy to get it. Then to condition it, teachers should make learning fun and humanizing learners. Appropriate learning models would improve intelligence learners. One model of learning that can be used to improve the intelligence of the learner is to use the model of edutainment. This article attempts to provide edutainment strategies in the use of the model to the increase of multiple intelligences of children.</em></p>
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Lid, Else Marie, Kari Kvigne, and Per Kristian Roghell. "Å gå med i pasienten si livsverd. Tankar omkring ei sjukepleieforteljing." Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning 12, no. 1 (2016): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/14.3775.
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Based on a nursing experience from a Norwegian local hospital, we reflect on the personal narrative in the story presented as well as on essential caring near the end of life. Important questions are: What will the challenging tasks be in nursing following a patient´s life world? How does such a practice and way of being in the world affect the relationship between nurse and patient? The focus of discussion is how a nurse possibly can be open, receiving and personal connected, and through such a practice be able to support patients to live their lives in spite of life threatening illness.The authors emphasize the existential dimensions of the relationship between a nurse and a patient. The nurse can support her patients to express themselves in many different ways, in her communication. For this to happen depends on the nurse´s ability to be open and personally present in her meeting with the patient.