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Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy
Religions, 2022 Every life has a beginning and an end. Natality and mortality are both profound existential fundaments of life that may lead us to question meaning in life as well as to find meaning.
Joanna Wojtkowiak, Carmen Schuhmann
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The Writer and Existentialism: Fiction as a means of expressing existential ideas
Филология: научные исследования, 2022 The article examines the existential paradigm in fiction through the prism of the literary theory of the French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre. The author explores the relationship between the writer and the reader in their social context. It is argued that the task of a literary critic is mainly to study the writer's technique.
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Finding an existential place to rest: enabling well-being in young adults
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2022 What enables well-being when experiencing existential concerns as a young adult is an under-explored area of research. In order to address young adults’ existential concerns and provide caring support that builds their resilience to meet life challenges,
Maria Lundvall +4 more
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An Empiricist Criterion of Meaning [PDF]
, 2011 The meaning of scientific propositions is not always expressible in terms of observable phenomena. Such propositions involve generalizations, and also terms that are theoretical constructs.
Yann Benétreau-Dupin +1 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2015 When faced with a significant threat to life people tend to reflect more intensely upon existential issues, such as the meaning and purpose of one’s life. Brain tumor poses a serious threat to a person’s life, functioning and personhood.
Tamara eOwnsworth, Kimberley eNash
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A blast from the past: the terror management function of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2008 According to terror management theory, people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality. Recent theory and research suggest that nostalgia is a meaning-providing resource and thus may serve such an ...
Arndt, A. +3 more
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Corona Disease Anxiety in Teachers: The Role of Existential Thinking and Meaning in Life
Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics, 2022 Background and Objectives: he unprecedented Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has outstandingly challenged all aspects of individual lives, especially their sources of a meaningful life and spiritual well-being.
Borzoo Amirpour, Arsalan Moradi
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Religions, 2022 The concept of ‘existential’, used frequently in Scandinavian healthcare journals, is associated with various, often unclear, meanings, highlighting the need for a more accurate understanding of the concept.
Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard +4 more
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The hardness of the iconic must: Can Peirce’s existential graphs assist modal epistemology? [PDF]
, 2011 Charles Peirce’s diagrammatic logic - the Existential Graphs - is presented as a tool for illuminating how we know necessity, in answer to Benacerraf’s famous challenge that most “semantics for mathematics” do not “fit an acceptable epistemology”.
Legg, Catherine, C. Legg
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In Search of the Meaning of Life: A Psychoanalytical Analysis of the Protagonist in the Novel "Little Death" Based on Irvin Yalom's Existential Psychology Theory [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربیThe primary tenet of existentialism "revolves around the human individual as a conscious subject: the sense of meaninglessness and the absurdity of human existence, and the anxiety and dread that permeate the individual" .
Leila Sadegh Naghdeali +3 more
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