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Alienation in Capitalism: Rediscovering Fulfillment [PDF]

, 2014
Many Americans are pessimistic about their country\u27s medium or long-term economic outlook. A century ago, Big Business was born as an economic force, but it has powerfully infiltrated the realm of politics now.
Carter, Gregory Lee
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Reading Auden as a Resource for Existential Reflection in a Society with Technocratic and Hedonistic Tendencies

Communications, 2017
The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of a remarkable writer, Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973), who was strongly influenced by the philosophy and thinking of the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, especially by his works Either - Or ...
Martina Pavlikova
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Criminals or Patients? Towards a Tragic Conception of Moral and Legal Responsibility \ud [PDF]

, 2010
There is a gap between, on the one hand, the tragic character of human action and, on the other hand, our moral and legal conceptions of responsibility that focus on individual agency and absolute guilt.
Coeckelbergh, Mark
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Kierkegaard’s Descriptive Philosophy of Religion: The Imagination Poised between Possibility and Actuality

Philosophies
Rethinking the powers of the imagination, Søren Kierkegaard both anticipates and challenges contemporary approaches to a descriptive philosophy of religion. In contrast to the reigning approaches to religion in his day, Kierkegaard reconceives philosophy
David J. Gouwens
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The Doctrines of Sin and Atonement in Reinhold Niebuhr\u27s Theology: An Analysis and a Proposed Corrective [PDF]

, 1997
Lecture presented at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, Fall ...
Beish, Clayton E.
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A Kierkegaardian guide to reading scripture [PDF]

, 2018
Kierkegaard is well known for being critical of a scholarly reading of the bible. It is generally understood that his primary concern was that “objective” biblical scholarship was undermining the possibility of a reader’s subjective life being affected ...
Torrance, Andrew Bartholomew
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Fortvilelse, et positivt aspekt ved mennesket? : fortvilelse i lys av Kierkegaard, Sartre og Beauvoir [PDF]

, 2010
Fortvilelse, et positivt aspekt ved mennesket? I lys av Kierkegaard, Sartre og Beauvoir. Kierkegaard skriver at fortvilelsen både er en fordel og en mangel (Sygdommen til døden, 2003, s. 174), og jeg ønsker å ta utgangspunkt i dette utdraget når jeg tar
Ørnholt, Tonje
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The Religious Significance of Kant’s Ethics [PDF]

, 2001
This paper provides analysis of Kant's Categorical Imperative and its relevance to religion. I discuss what the concept of a categorical imperative implies about self-transcendence, and what this understanding of self-transcendence indicates about the ...
Mariña, Jacqueline
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Kierkegaard’s reconceptualisation of divine immutability

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
In Søren Kierkegaard’s works, the relationship between the immutability of God and the concepts of time and motion emerges as a central theme. This paper examines how Kierkegaard reconciles the idea of an immutable God with the dynamic process of ‘coming
Peiyi Yang
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Living with obesity — existential experiences

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2019
Aims and objectives: The aim was to gain in-depth understanding about individuals’ existential experiences of living with obesity. Background: People living with obesity face great vulnerability and existential challenges.
Venke Ueland, Bodil Furnes, Elin Dysvik, Kristine Rørtveit   +3 more
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