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MERE LIFE, DAMAGED LIFE AND EPHEMERAL LIFE
Angelaki, 2014This paper analyses three concepts of life in Adorno's philosophy and considers the relationship between these concepts and the idea of a speculative materialism. The paper is concerned with Adorno's late concept of metaphysical experience and articulates a response to two key problems for the interpretation of this concept.
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2009
In Game As Life --- Life As Game (GALLAG), ubiquitous computing and personally-tailored game scenarios integrate activities across the virtual and physical domains to further extend emerging avant-garde "real-life games" that are coordinated by digital means to blur digital-physical-social barriers.
Winslow Burleson +4 more
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In Game As Life --- Life As Game (GALLAG), ubiquitous computing and personally-tailored game scenarios integrate activities across the virtual and physical domains to further extend emerging avant-garde "real-life games" that are coordinated by digital means to blur digital-physical-social barriers.
Winslow Burleson +4 more
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Journal of Gerontology, 1977
The present study investigates changes in personal satisfaction over the whole life course by means of life graphs and their determinants. The life graphs were administered within a 4-year interval to 371 individuals (age 45-70). A modified version of the Holmes and Rahe life events scale, administered in the second interview, was used to ascertain the
L B, Bourque, K W, Back
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The present study investigates changes in personal satisfaction over the whole life course by means of life graphs and their determinants. The life graphs were administered within a 4-year interval to 371 individuals (age 45-70). A modified version of the Holmes and Rahe life events scale, administered in the second interview, was used to ascertain the
L B, Bourque, K W, Back
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A matter of life and longer life
Journal of Aging Studies, 2019While the major scientific discoveries that would extend the length and health of human lives are not yet here, the research that could create them is already underway. As prospects for a world in which extended and improved lives inches closer into reality, the discourse about what to consider as we move forward grows richer, with corporate executives,
Kristin, Kostick +2 more
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2019
This essay provides a moment for readers to rethink the scholarly or disciplinary methodologies, as well as national ideologies, that shape black sexuality studies and examinations of sexual economies. As communities throughout the African Diaspora continue to work toward sexual decolonization, they do so in ways that highlight the tensions and ...
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This essay provides a moment for readers to rethink the scholarly or disciplinary methodologies, as well as national ideologies, that shape black sexuality studies and examinations of sexual economies. As communities throughout the African Diaspora continue to work toward sexual decolonization, they do so in ways that highlight the tensions and ...
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Life and life only: a radical alternative to life definitionism
Synthese, 2018To date, no definition of life has been unequivocally accepted by the scientific community. In frustration, some authors advocate alternatives to standard definitions. These include using a list of characteristic features, focusing on life’s effects, or categorizing biospheres rather than life itself; treating life as a fuzzy category, a process or a ...
Carlos Mariscal, W. Ford Doolittle
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Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 2008
Your client is talking about his or her life situation--the end of a relationship, aging and ill parents, loss of a job, or disappointments in life. As nurse psychotherapists, we are trained to assist clients in ventilating feelings, identifying the underlying conflict, lending perspective about the psychodynamics of the situation, guiding the ...
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Your client is talking about his or her life situation--the end of a relationship, aging and ill parents, loss of a job, or disappointments in life. As nurse psychotherapists, we are trained to assist clients in ventilating feelings, identifying the underlying conflict, lending perspective about the psychodynamics of the situation, guiding the ...
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Life and the scientific concept of life
Theoretical Medicine, 1987A premise which seems to be preponderate in the philosophy of medical practice developed by Pellegrino and Thomasma is the medical prescription to save life whenever possible. This premise is confronted with a polemical vitalism and examined in the light of some reading principles derived from G. Canguilhem's philosophy of the life-sciences.
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The Quality of Life, The Sanctity of Life
The Hastings Center Report, 1978The tragic case of Karen Ann Quinlan sent moral theologians and ethicists back to their traditions to reevaluate the formulations that attempted to spell out and mediate traditional value judgments in an increasingly complex world. Conceptualization has always been very important to moral theology. Because times, circumstances, and perspectives change,
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The Good Life and the Life Sciences
Politics and the Life Sciences, 1988Arnhart's “Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism” is both a valuable and yet at the same time a problematic study. Its value for political science lies in Arnhart's reminder that for many of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought their efforts to discover and articulate ...
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