Search results for "existential"

Opintojen henkilökohtaistaminen aikuisoppijoiden kokemana : eksistentiaalis-fenomenologinen tutkimus näyttötutkintomestarikoulutuksen kontekstissa

2018

The aim of this empirical qualitative PhD study was to describe and understand the phenomenon of the personalisation of studies. The theoretical framework was the existential phenomenology with holistic conception of man. In this study, the phenomenological experience was broadly understood as the experiential relationship of man to his own situation. The research assignment was 1) to describe the essence of personalised studies as appear in the experiences of an adult learner and 2) to describe a general network of meanings connected with individual experiences. The context of this research was the development of a training programme for specialists in competence-based qualifications condu…

How Islamic are young Muslim people’s poems?

2019

In this article, I investigate poetry written by two young Muslim people during their spare time. Adopting Shahab Ahmed’s (2016) understanding of Islamic in its plenitude and complexity, I ask how Islamic their texts are. The participants, Neda and Mohammed (both pseudonyms), grew up in Islamic countries where they were socialised in faith literacy practices, including practices around sacred and devotional texts, before moving to Norway in their teens. The data used for this article were collected during two linguistic ethnographies and include poems written in and outside of school, fieldnotes from classroom observations and transcripts from multiple semi-structured interviews. The interv…

Antonio Bellingreri, La famiglia come esistenziale. Saggio di antropologia pedagogica, La Scuola, Brescia 2014, pp. 411

2014

famiglia, antropologia pedagogica, genitorialità, empatia, esistenziale

The orthodox liturgical year and its theological structure

2022

The concept of ‘liturgical year’ indicates a reference to the meaning of the measuring units of civil time, and especially to the cosmic entities that determine the general rhythm of time – the sun and the moon. Interestingly, the liturgical time depends both on the structure of civil time, and, on the two discrete systems of the solar and lunar cycles, which have always been underpinnings of time measuring. The special importance and influence that the cosmical rhythms exert on the entire human life are also felt in the structure and theology of the liturgical time, where it signals the attempt to merge and reconcile the cosmical solar and lunar cycles within the liturgical year. This lead…

Subjective financial situation and financial capability of young adults in Finland

2018

A key developmental task in young adulthood is acquiring financial capability (Serido, Shim, & Tang, 2013), meaning competent financial management skills and the responsibilities that these involve. This study extends previous research on the theoretical model of the development of financial capability, including financial confidence (or financial self-efficacy) and financial behavior as factors contributing to subjective and financial well-being. It is part of the Finnish Educational Transitions Studies (FinEdu) longitudinal research project. Participants were 418 young adults aged 24–25 at Time 1 and 26–27 at Time 2. Path and mediation models and Structural Equation Modeling followin…

Self in NARS, an AGI System

2018

This article describes and discusses the self-related mechanisms of a general-purpose intelligent system, NARS. This system is designed to be adaptive and to work with insufficient knowledge and resources. The system’s various cognitive functions are uniformly carried out by a central reasoning-learning process following a “non-axiomatic” logic. This logic captures the regularities of human empirical reasoning, where all beliefs are revisable according to evidence, and the meaning of concepts are grounded in the system’s experience. NARS perceives its internal environment basically in the same way as how it perceives its external environment although the sensors involved are completely diff…

Bóg i „śmierć Boga” w pisarstwie Tomasza Mertona

2018

Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk and religious writer, is the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, Seeds of Contemplation, The Ascent to Truth, the New Man and many other works in the field of spirituality. He is also an analytical thinker comparing scholastic philosophy with modern existentialism. In Conjectures of a guilty bystander he takes up a polemic with the Heideggerian concept of death. Merton examines this issue from the point of view of Christian axiology. The dogma of existentialism is something illogical to him: the idea of “the death of God”. His entire work is linked to a polemic with Thomas Altizer, an Anglican theologian inspired by the philosophy of Fryderyk Nietz…

Meaning in life in cancer patients: relationships with illness perception and global meaning changes

2017

BackgroundMeaning in life seems to play an important role at various stages of coping in cancer patients. It can influence the ways in which cancer patients perceive their illness and potential changes in beliefs and goals. The main aim of the current study is to examine how two dimensions – presence of and search for meaning – are related to illness perception and global meaning changes.Participants and procedureThe research was conducted among 231 cancer patients (136 women and 95 men), between 27 and 86 years of age (M = 56.73, SD = 12.64). They were diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer (stomach, colon, pancreas, liver, large intestine). The following research methods were used: the Me…

Peter E. Gordon: Adorno and Existence

2017

El concepto de motivación en la fenomenología hermenéutica del joven Heidegger

2018

El presente artículo elucida el papel metodológico que juega el término «motivación» en la transformación hermenéutica de la fenomenología llevada a cabo por el joven Heidegger. A tal efecto, comenzaré con el análisis del concepto de motivación en la fenomenología de Husserl para apreciar después su inflexión hermenéutica en la filosofía de Heidegger. En un segundo momento, prestaré una especial atención a la importancia que tiene la motivación en el surgimiento de las nociones metodológicas más importantes de la fenomenología hermenéutica, como son la «destrucción», la «indicación formal» y la «preconcepción». Todo ello me conducirá, finalmente, a reformular el problema fenomenológico sobr…