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Jean-Paul Sartre: Mystical Atheist or Mystical Antipathist? [PDF]
, 2013 Jean-Paul Sartre is rarely discussed in the philosophy of religion. In 2009, however, Jerome Gellman broke the silence, publishing an article in which he argued that the source of Sartre’s atheism was neither philosophical nor existential, but mystical ...
Kirkpatrick, Kate
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2017 If truth hurts, this is no doubt because it is often enough forced on us. And the question as to whether the reception of “nice,” “easy” truths is similarly an outcome of coercion negates itself in its very formulation—we do not ask “why are things the ...
Jeffrey Bernstein
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The Freedom of Commitment: The Role of the Writer in Sartre’s What is Literature?
Critical Literary Studies, 2020 The commitment of literature stirred up controversy in the face of European cataclysm of the post-war period. The significance of literature in political spheres fell under suspicion.
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L’imaginaire and the Sartrean discovery
Estudios de Filosofía, 2022 From the first books published by Jean-Paul Sartre, it is possible to observe the criticism that the French author makes to the Western metaphysical tradition, directed specifically at philosophers of modernity.
Arturo Alberto Cardozo Beltran
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Existentialism and Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre [PDF]
, 2006 This essay utilizes the work of the comedy group, Monty Python, as a means of introducing basic concepts in Existentialism, especially as it pertains to the writings of Nietzsche, Sartre, and ...
Slowik, Edward
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2020 This paper is an attempt to identify the sources of contemporary culture. The author argues that at its bottom we can find a form of antihuman thinking.
Sylwester Warzyński
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Existentialism and My ‘Postwolf’ Dachshund: Authenticity in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human genetic engineering has the potential to profoundly alter the traits of future generations, raising critical ethical questions about authenticity and identity. Essentialist perspectives reject genetic engineering, claiming it inherently compromises authenticity by deviating from a species‐typical genome.
Donrich Thaldar
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Sartre on Embodiment, Touch, and the “Double Sensation” [PDF]
, 2010 The chapter titled “The Body” in Being and Nothingness offers a groundbreaking, if somewhat neglected, philosophical analysis of embodiment. As part of his “es- say on phenomenological ontology,” he is proposing a new multi-dimensional ontological ...
Moran, Dermot
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