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- 2531: The Stoics And Socrates
- ... Why should it be different for the eternal existence of our soul? Though we may always have goals to work towards, basing ones life on the condition of afterlife is self defeating. Life must be lived from day to day with actions that further ones own immediate goals, whether they are to bring joy to others or to live quietly in peace. To have the thought of eternal salvation looming overhead ...
- 2532: Sigumand Freud And Nietzsche: Personalities And The Mind
- ... a quality of the pyschial, which may be present (Freud, The Ego and the ID, 3). "...that what we call our ego behaves essentially passively in life, and that, as he expresses it, we are 'lived' by unknown and uncontrollable forces," (Groddeck, quoted from Gay, 635). Many, if not all of us have had impressions of the same, even though they may not have overwhelmed us to the isolation of all ...
- 2533: Nature Vs. Nurture
- ... concluded that adopted children resemble their biological mothers more than they resemble the adoptive parents who reared them from birth. In an extensive study dealing with the mental growth of foster children after they had lived in their new homes found that on the whole, they improved their mental status, the extent of improvement being contingent upon the quality of the foster home, the length of residence there, and the age ...
- 2534: John Locke: Property Rights
- ... natural right to property and the impact this has on the sovereign, as well as the extent of this impact. Locke was a micro based ideologist. He believed that humans were autonomous individuals who, although lived in a social setting, could not be articulated as a herd or social animal. Locke believed person to stand for, “... a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as ...
- 2535: The Existence Of God
- ... in God's kingdom. The opposite possibility is that a person could believe in God all their lives and turn out to be wrong. This would mean no reward, but he theorized that if they lived their life according to God they probably enjoyed it anyway, and that was their reward. Another possibility is that someone might not believe in God and find out their wrong, thereby being doomed to a ...
- 2536: Existentialist Themes Of Anxiety And Absurdity
- ... a gear or dread which is not directed to any specific object. It is the claim that anguish streams of thought in Judaism and Christianity which see human existence as fallen, and human life as lived in suffering and sin, guild and anxiety. This dark and forbidding picture of human life leads existentialists to reject ideas such as happiness, enlightenment optimism, a sense of well-being, since these can only reflect ...
- 2537: Existentialists: I Am Me, And You Are You
- ... that every person is an individual, not a copy from a predetermined mold. Jean-Paul Sartre also portrays his characters as individuals, not carbon copies of each other. Garcin, a soldier who went AWOL, certainly lived a different life than the baby- killer Estelle. These individualistic qualities lead to us by Tarzan's statement, now guide us to the existential belief of existence before essence. This idea consists of the belief ...
- 2538: Transcendentalism And A Belief In A "Higher Power"
- ... arguments is that there is not one bit of concrete evidence to support either claim. Every time we have tested so-called articles of religious miracle, such as the Shroud of Turin, they have not lived up to their claim. We also cannot prove through any scientific method that anyone has ever been touched by a transcendental force. These near-death experiences are probably a simple lack of blood to the ...
- 2539: Theseus
- ... helped him kill the Minitor by giving him a sword which he killed the Minitor with and a ball of thread to help him find his way out of the labyrinth in which the Minitor lived. Theseus then left Create with Ariadne but dumped her on the way back to Athens. On his return from Create to Athens, however, in his hurry to get home, he forgot to hoist a white ...
- 2540: Vampires
- have been seen and documented throughout history. The history of goes further back in time than most people realize. The chaldeans, who lived near the Euphrates river in the southwestern part of Asia more than five hundred years before the time of Christ , feared vampire or creatures similar to vampires enough so that they created charms to protect ...
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