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A Case of Tragic Optimism: Volunteer Counsellors' Experience of Meaning
Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012This study applied concepts from logotherapy to construct the meaning that volunteer crisis counsellors experienced by working with victims of crime. Data were collected from seven participants who delivered services at community-driven crisis centre using a qualitative approach. The data were analysed thematically.
Henry D. Mason, Juan A. Nel
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Tragic Optimism, Lethal Innocence, and Illusions in After the Fall
The Arthur Miller Journal, 2022abstract Arthur Miller’s discourse on universal guilt and tragedy manifests in numerous aspects of his autobiographical play After the Fall. This article incorporates a moral paradigm according to Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl: reality is tragic due to pain, guilt, and death.
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Tragic optimism in Half of a Yellow Sun and Beyond the Horizon
Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 2018Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon are similar in many ways. They both focus on characters whose everyday peaceful lives are overturned by tragic events: in Half of a Yellow Sun, these include brutal war and its antecedent starvation, sickness, loss of properties, beloved family members and friends, squalor ...
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Greece and Rome, 1942
An ἀγών between the dignity and aspiration of man and the apparently overwhelming power of the gods or of circumstance recurs frequently as a theme in the Greek tragedies. The solution proposed by the Greek writers was always positive and encouraging to man. The same theme is found in the Aeneid, and the answer is not dissimilar to the solution offered
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An ἀγών between the dignity and aspiration of man and the apparently overwhelming power of the gods or of circumstance recurs frequently as a theme in the Greek tragedies. The solution proposed by the Greek writers was always positive and encouraging to man. The same theme is found in the Aeneid, and the answer is not dissimilar to the solution offered
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‘Her Heritage Was that Tragic Optimism’: Edwardian Pastoral
2017George Orwell suggested that proletarian literature began before the First World War when Ford Madox Ford, the editor of the English Review, met D.H. Lawrence and saw in him the portent of a new class finding expression in literature. Chapter one of this book explores the extent to which Ford was already anticipating the ideas of William Empson in his ...
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Pedagogical IMAGE
Introduction. The subject of the study is the concept of “tragic optimism” by F.V. Nietzsche. The author identifi es the anthropological and humanistic aspects of the phenomena accompanying optimism, among which are the man as a measure of being; the life-affirming philosophy of will in the aspect of humility with what cannot be changed; the will as a ...
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Introduction. The subject of the study is the concept of “tragic optimism” by F.V. Nietzsche. The author identifi es the anthropological and humanistic aspects of the phenomena accompanying optimism, among which are the man as a measure of being; the life-affirming philosophy of will in the aspect of humility with what cannot be changed; the will as a ...
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THE TRAGIC OPTIMISM OF PHILOSOPHY
2019The universality of pain, which is one of the human phenomena,necessitates addressing pain not only as psychological or physical but also as avital phenomenon. The universality of pain leads us to philosophicalanthropology, which at the same time examines the phenomena common to allhumans and tries to explain human existence.
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When terror hits home: A case for tragic optimism
From: Wong, P. T. P. (2001, September). When terror hits home: A case for tragic optimism. Positive Living Newsletter. https://www.meaning.ca/article/when-terror-hits-home-a-case-for-tragic-optimism/openaire +1 more source
Social consolidation and social reproduction of modern russian society: resources, problems and prospects
Based on the analysis, philosophical reconstruction and the author's pedagogical interpretation of F. Nietzsche's ideas with his approach: “aesthetics of existence”, the author identifies the pedagogical aspects of his philosophy of tragic optimism, accompanied by techniques of humility and struggle with tragic manifestations of life.
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Based on the analysis, philosophical reconstruction and the author's pedagogical interpretation of F. Nietzsche's ideas with his approach: “aesthetics of existence”, the author identifies the pedagogical aspects of his philosophy of tragic optimism, accompanied by techniques of humility and struggle with tragic manifestations of life.
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