Tag: Psychology
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Lamentation (prayer) in the spiritual sense is to surrender to a higher being, and lament (pity) in the physical world is to give up.
A complaint is a gripe, pointing out a fault in our estimation, an expression of anger or concern. A lament releases an emotion of mourning that is heard beyond human ears. A complaint often turns into an outburst. A lament is a sorrowful prayer. A lament is a prayer to God. But here are seven strategies you […]
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Tragedy potential for both towering achievement and terrifying descent into the abyss
7Rediscovering Tragedy What chained Greece so tightly together? What drew the people so unresistingly to their theater?” asked the German playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller in the early nineteenth century. “Nothing else but the national content of the plays, the Greek spirit, and the great overwhelming interest of the state and of a better humanity.”1 […]
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Nervous systems enable both complex movements and, eventually, the beginning of a real novelty: minds.
The stages of being, feeling, and knowing correspond to separable anatomical and functional systems that coexist inside each of us humans and are engaged as needed in adult life.1 (Pg.25) It is not possible to make sense of what consciousness is and of how it developed without first addressing a number of important questions in […]
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Closely connected to preservation on a spiritual level Amber is also a metaphysical gem
Amber a hard, transparent, yellowish-brown substance that was formed in ancient times from resin (= a substance produced by trees) and is used in jewelry: a honey-yellow color typical of amber. “her eyes were green flecked with amber.” a yellow light used as a cautionary signal between green for “go” and red for “stop.” plural noun: ambers “the lights were at amber.” He has a collection of prehistoric insects preserved in amber. Greek philosophers discovered that lightweight objects will stick […]
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It could be as simple as getting your hair cut or changing your glasses, but it could be much bigger.
What change means? 1 : to become different some things never change. 2 : to undergo transformation, transition, or substitution winter changed to spring. 3 : exchange, switch neither liked his seat so they changed with each other. 4 : to put on different clothes need a few minutes to change for dinner. What does change mean […]
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Free will is the capacity to choose between different possible courses of action, unimpeded.
Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. [1][2] Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, culpability, sin, and other judgments that apply only to freely chosen actions. It is also connected with the ideas of advice, persuasion, deliberation, and prohibition. Traditionally, only freely willed actions are seen as deserving credit or blame. Whether free will […]
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in some cases deliberately creating, some common features in the populations
From the Preface HUMANKIND IS SPECIAL IN MANY WAYS, as the result of its evolutionary history. Among other unique features, humans are special in that they build complex and apparently very different societies. Recent developments in different sciences are now converging to provide explanations for many aspects of these societies, for the particular ways in […]
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Ask implies no more than the putting of a question but what’s questioning?
What does it mean to ask a question, and what is questioning? Ask (Verb), question, interrogate, query, and inquire, means to address a person to gain information. Ask implies no more than the putting of a question. For example, asking for directions usually suggests asking a series of questions. Is questioning someone the same as asking […]
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Because of a lacuna in her work history, the former stay-at-home mom had difficulty finding a job.
What do lacunae mean? A blank space Definition of lacuna A blank space or a missing part: gap. The evident lacunae in his story — Shirley Hazzard 1: Also: deficiency sense. Despite all these lacunae, those reforms were a vast improvement in — New Republic. 2: a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical […]
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affection is a mode of being of a particular “body” when another “body” is present.
Experience is the discursive flow of affections, and co-affections, through which self unfolds. (Pg.145) From my reading of Spinoza (1677/1994), affection is a mode of being of a particular “body” when another “body” is present. (Pg.145) The desire for self-continuity, then, is the referent in relation to which both affects and ideas occur. When self-perseveration […]
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the virtue of self-sacrifice has limited normative power for women
Chapter Two “I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be” The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice and Self-Preservation in Jessica Jones Taylor J. Ott While the classic superheroes of comics’ golden age—for instance, Superman, Captain America, Wonder Woman—functioned as predictably salvific Christ-figures in their stories, the title character of the Netflix series Jessica Jones […]
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“It is the god who supposedly demands the victims”
Girard would say that the one child has learned that the toy is desirable by observing the other child’s interest in it. As in this example with the children, mimetic desire often brings us into conflict with others, eventually culminating in an act of violence, and the original object of the conflict ceases to matter. […]
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