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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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From pain to pleasure: The troping of elegy in the renaissance Italian madrigal [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2017 In the Renaissance period, melancholia emerged as a dramatic cultural phenomenon among the intellectual and artistic elites, with a locus in elegy it gave form to the Renaissance poetics of loss, pain and shedding of tears, expressing ...
Medić Milena
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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli +2 more
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E-REA, 2017 Plath’s work has often been described as an auto/biographical account of her death wish, and for some, her 1963 suicide was the evidence confirming her obsession for the morbid.
Nicolas Pierre BOILEAU
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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Slow‐wave sleep (SWS; stage N3) is often reported as reduced in depression, yet variability across depressive phenotypes remains poorly characterised. This study aimed to determine whether N3 architecture—proportion, duration, and latency—identifies clinically distinct profiles in major depressive episode (MDE).
Antoine Salmeron +8 more
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Freud, Orzeszkowa i zimowe epifanie
Teksty Drugie, 2016 Review: Melancholia i poznanie: ‘Autobiografie’ Elizy Orzeszkowej [Melancholia and Understanding: Eliza Orzeszkowa’s ‘Autobiographies’], ed.
Małgorzata Czermińska
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 1999 Este artigo revê o conceito de depressão e a nosologia contemporânea dos estados depressivos e seus diferentes subtipos. São discutidos aspectos relativos ao curso (formas agudas vs crônicas da doença, padrão sazonal), características fenomenológicas ...
José Alberto Del Porto
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin
Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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