Search results for "meaning of life"
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Understanding illnesses through a film festival: an observational study
2019
Abstract Audio-visual materials play a fundamental role in the context of education, care and clinical treatment, as they seem to have a high impact on public awareness. This study aims to describe what messages are perceived by the society at an International Festival of Short Films and Art on Diseases that may help to understand difficult topics, such as illness, dying and suffering. Through an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, using full participant observation and an open, self-administered questionnaire, 32 short films were analysed during a healthcare art festival. Categories were developed using inductive content analysis. The message perceived by the participants, a…
Schelling, esotericism and the meaning of life
2019
Abstract F.W.J. Schelling argues in his middle period work Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom that will should be understood as the most fundamental constitutive element of reality. Though it is often downplayed in recent scholarship, Schelling derived his most central ideas for this work more or less directly from the theosophy of Jacob Boehme. I will argue that far from peripheral and antiquated curiosity, Schelling´s esoteric influences constitute the very foundation of his middle period thought. Schelling´s affinity to esotericism enabled him to develop a form of pantheism, which is not tied to the familiar problematic aspects of traditional Christian and post-Chri…
Utopia and the meaning of life: ludic reason versus instrumental reason in Bernard Suits’ work
2019
In this paper, we explore the existential aspects of Bernard Suits’ Utopia. We first provide a philosophical analysis of the concept of ‘utopia.’ Then, we analyze two key distinctions in Suits’ wor...
Schelling’s pantheism and the problem of evil
2017
ABSTRACTAny religious worldview, understood in the sense that ‘life has a purpose’, has to face the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been particularly intensively discussed in the Aristotelian–Scholastic–Christian tradition. The most popular solution has been to deny that anything truly evil actually exists. It is hard to conceive why an omnipotent and perfectly good God would allow evil to appear. Yet, Western culture has been and still is full of imagery of absolute demonic evil. I suggest that this strained dialectic could be best approached by radically rethinking the nature of evil and the theological context in which it has traditionally been thought. In his middle period work…
Does Christian Spirituality Enhance Psychological Interventions on Forgiveness, Gratitude, and the Meaning of Life? A Quasi-Experimental Intervention…
2020
Scientific research has provided theoretical evidence on the implementation of religious/spiritual interventions (RSI) as a complementary health therapy, where spiritual improvements are also a factor to consider. Despite the above, there are few studies that have evaluated the clinical applicability of these findings. This study was an intervention with older and younger adults divided into two treatment groups and one control group. What is expected is that the two treatment groups will score better than the control group
Ratiovitalistic hermeneutics and sport in the perspective of Ortega y Gasset
2016
AbstractThis work aims to show, in the first place, that the ratiovitalism of Jose Ortega y Gasset is one of the possible lines of the hermeneutic transformation process of contemporary thinking. Nietzsche’s hermeneutical mark on the development of Ortega’s thinking is clear in some very relevant aspects, such as the importance of the body and the innovative notion of life, both of which are decisive issues to understand sport. Secondly, an attempt is made to tap into the rich reflections of Ortega y Gasset on sport, which have a considerable impact on the entire human life, based on the claim of a notion of living body (Leib) and of a new notion of life. Sport forms part of a vital horizon…
From the Editor in Chief: Humans and their technologies play the infinite game
2019
Тема старости в романе Гайто Газданова „Ночные дороги”
2017
A theme of old age in the novel Night Roads by Gaito Gazdanov In his literary works, Gaito Gazdanov — arepresentative of ayounger generation of the first wave of Russian emigre writers — has made frequent references to the theme of old age. Very often he analyzed the old age in the context of the meaning of life and death. His novel “Night Roads” is essential in this respect as the theme of old age and the attitude thereto is presented against the backdrop of the experiences of an owner of acafe, aprostitute Raldi and an elderly cab driver. The protagonists possess specific individual traits precisely described by the narrator. The theme of old age provides, first and foremost, an opportun…
From Tolstoy's religious meaning of life to Chekhov's melancholia
2015
Se compara Una historia aburrida de Antón Chéjov con La muerte de Iván Ilich de León Tolstói con el fin de dilucidar distintos modos de la crisis de sentido que se fragua a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. El relato de Tolstói prefigura la reconstrucción de un sentido de índole religiosa (una humanidad regida por los principios de fraternidad y de no resistencia violenta frente al mal, considerada como el reino de Dios entre nosotros), mientras que Chéjov aceptaría el dictum de Wittgenstein «Creer en un dios significa ver que la vida tiene un sentido» pero no cree que haya dios alguno en que creer. Por último, se pregunta qué moral puede derivarse de tal negación y se recurr…
From Tolstoy's religious meaning of life to Chekhov's melancholia
2015
Se compara Una historia aburrida de Antón Chéjov con La muerte de Iván Ilich de León Tolstói con el fin de dilucidar distintos modos de la crisis de sentido que se fragua a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. El relato de Tolstói prefigura la reconstrucción de un sentido de índole religiosa (una humanidad regida por los principios de fraternidad y de no resistencia violenta frente al mal, considerada como el reino de Dios entre nosotros), mientras que Chéjov aceptaría el dictum de Wittgenstein «Creer en un dios significa ver que la vida tiene un sentido» pero no cree que haya dios alguno en que creer. Por último, se pregunta qué moral puede derivarse de tal negación y se recurr…