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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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The main sacrifice: Sacrificing own children in Slavic folk literature [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004 This paper discusses the work of M. Dragomanov "Slavs fables about sacrificing own children." These fables are divided into three groups whereas the second group is discussed here.
Đapović Lasta S.
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Święty Jan od Krzyża, Wojtyła i Grotowski: Ku sztuce numinotycznej
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2021 This article posits that in Karol Wojtyła’s and Jerzy Grotowski’s thinking about art, it is possible to identify commonalities by which their aesthetic and ethical concepts can be associated with the work of John of the Cross.
Marlena Krupa
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NLO evolution kernels: Monte Carlo versus MSbar
, 2011 We investigate the differences between the NLO evolution kernels in the Curci-Furmanski-Petronzio (CFP) and Monte Carlo (MC) factorization schemes for the non-singlet case. We show the origin of these differences and present them explicitly.
Jadach, S. +3 more
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Being Wrong About Personal Transformation
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Transformative experiences are thought to change us in different ways. Some transform us epistemically by providing genuinely new, previously unimaginable experiences, while others bring about personal transformation by altering our values. Recent debates on transformative experiences have explored the challenges these experiences pose for ...
Adrian Kind
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From Oh to Aha: Characteristics and Types of Environmental Epiphany Experiences
Human Ecology Review, 2018 Despite the anecdotal evidence of experiences that shift the self–nature relationship, which we identify as Environmental Epiphanies, little is known about the characteristics and patterns of such experiences.
Melinda Storie, Joanne Vining
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Making Sure you Solve the Right Problem
Ecology and Society, 2009 Macleod et al. have given us an admirable case study and argued that "... there is an urgent need to create stronger and more transparent, integrated, and adaptive linkages between opening-up and closing down mechanisms at the science-policy interface ...
Kim Cartledge +3 more
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Existentialism, Epiphany, and Polyphony in Dostoevsky’s Post-Siberian Novels
Religions, 2019 Dostoevsky can be meaningfully read as a defender of Russian Orthodoxy; a psychologist; a polemicizing anti-nihilist ideologue; a Schillerian romantic; a Solovyovian believer in love, goodness, and beauty; a prophet.
Bilal Siddiqi
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