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Self-Sacrifice and the Transformation of the Hero

Akademisk Kvarter, 2020
The literary notion of a hero is often steeped in great deeds, such as vanquishing the monster, completing Herculean tasks, or protecting the innocent from harm.
Dr Craig Smith
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Suicide and self-sacrifice in the Hosshinshū

Шаги, 2022
The question regarding suicide in Japanese Buddhist thought does not have a clear answer. A person should cherish his life in the world of people, where conditions are very favorable for asceticism, for moving towards liberation; however, determination ...
N. N. Trubnikova
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The Promotion of the Culture of Self-Sacrifice and Martyrdom through Elementary School Curriculum [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2012
The main question of the present article is, how can the culture of self-sacrifice and martyrdom (isar and shahadah) be promoted through elementary school curriculum?
Nematollah Mousapour
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Sacrifice as a plot device

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2015
It is considered the plot device “sacrifice” as a meaningful component of the narrative. It sets a minimum of substantive meaning of this formation (the idea of getting something over the loss of something).
Ashikhmanova Natalya Alexandrovna
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Beyond a sacrificial spirituality: Enhancing flourishing pastoral ministers

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
This contribution explains the value of self-giving and critically questions the discourse on self-sacrifice in relation to ministerial spirituality.
Annemie Dillen
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Self-sacrifice [PDF]

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010
The paper discusses the problem of self-sacrifice as posed by Derrida in Foi et Savior and by Schiller in the Theosophie des Julius. Whereas Derrida understands self-sacrifice as an act of violence against oneself in order not to subject others to violence, Schiller rightly insists that one must distinguish between egotistical and altruistic self ...
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sacrificing sacrifice to self-sacrifice [PDF]

, 2017
: Karl Jaspers describes The Axial Period (800-200 BCE) as a world-historical turning point in the spiritual evolution of the human species, characterized by the rise of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Pythagoreanism, and the Hebrew ...
Eric, D. Meyer
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Caring for Oneself or for Others? How Consistent and Inconsistent Profiles of Health-Oriented Leadership Are Related to Follower Strain and Health

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Health-oriented leadership consists of three dimensions that contribute to employee health: staff care, i.e., health-specific follower-directed leadership, as well as both leaders’ and followers’ self care, i.e., health-specific self-leadership.
Katharina Klug, Jörg Felfe, Annika Krick   +2 more
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Sacrificio: questioni, interpretazioni, comparazioni. Una introduzione

Storicamente, 2022
This introduction aims to explain the lines of research of a group of scholars, brought together in a joint project on the history of sacrifice from the late Middle Ages to the modern world.
Vincenzo Lavenia, Sabina Pavone
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Ethical Reflections on Self-Sacrifice in Russian Monasticism

Quaestio Rossica, 2021
Автор анализирует проблематику самопожертвования как высшей формы любви с акцентом на византийском восприятии этических принципов самопожертвования, пришедшем в пространство русской культуры через переводы ниптической (аскетической) литературы ...
Ján Zozuľak
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