Asceticism

Bill Cunningham, who grew to become fashion photography into his own branch of cultural anthropology on the streets of new York, chronicling an technology’s ever-altering social scene for the brand new York instances by way of training his busily observant lens on what individuals wore — stylishly, flamboyantly or just plain sensibly — died on Saturday in long island. He was once 87. His dying used to be demonstrated with the aid of The times. He had been hospitalized recently after having a…

According to Maimonides, a "physician of the soul" is when therapy and ethics meet to prescribe "a temporary ethic to enable the patient to acquire moral virtue" (299). These "wise men," who are "physicians of the soul" are there to balance the extreme character traits of the soul that are sick. When a person shows bad actions they must be cured by the soul doctor "to acquire moral virtue" (298). It is like when goes to a "physician of the body" with an infection, the doctor must prescribe…

Yet, both his mother and father urged him to combine modern secular studies with his devotion to Talmud and Kabbalah. Of his mother, he says, "Her dream was to make me into a doctor of philosophy; I should be both a Ph.D. and a rabbi." [7] And his father made him learn modern Hebrew, a skill with which he was later able to make his livelihood as a journalist for an Israeli newspaper. Wiesel remembers his father, an "emancipated," if religious Jew, saying to him, "Listen, if you want to study…

The Pakistani and Bangladeshi smokers are high in the United Kingdom (UK) and there are minimum amount of smoking cessation programs designed to address the concern. Consequently, a pilot program trial of an intervention designed to offer a culturally tailored, trained community smoking cessation worker model of care was enacted to test the impact of a smoking cessation program for the Pakistani and Bangladeshi men. The cluster randomized controlled trial pilot study was set to compare the…

To Edith Wharton this society which was laid out delicately like a museum, gave a culture which was an amalgamation of purity and snobbery. If no one soared above the conventions of this extravagant society, only the exceptional ones attempted to degrade them. There was neither any performance of heroic deeds nor the regret of its absence. The young Edith Wharton Jones unquestioningly accepted it from the first and admired its chivalry to the end. Its kindliness, its precision of taste, its…

cults, Gnostics, Jews who claim superiority over the church, and non-Christian cynics” (Sumney 10) One of the biggest threats that the church in Colossae faced is believed to be that of the Gnostics. The mystical cult believed in salvation through asceticism, which is not how salvation is found in Christian faith. There was a large amount of different views floating around the people of Colossae and many of the new Christians began to adopt these different ideas and then live out the different…

The novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, tells the spiritual journey of a boy named Siddhartha and how he ultimately achieves true enlightenment within himself. As the novel is structured primarily around Siddhartha’s inner spiritual struggle, the moment that he deters from his path physically by entering the alluring material world is a huge event within the novel as his pain and thoughts of hopelessness are not confined within the mind but rather dangerously externalized. This deviation itself…

on his journey for answers, it took him on the path of two extremes: the life experience he had gleaned from princehood and that of asceticism, the bare minimum of life in order to achieve a higher spiritual existence. When both of these methods failed him after giving each a fair trial, he decided on a Middle Path, a life avoiding the extremes of luxury and asceticism. Soon after realizing this, Siddhartha…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer explores the concept of Hidden Virtue. He writes of religious life having extraordinary character and that there is a hiddenness of this life one chooses to live. Applying this to Oscar Schindler, from Schindler’s List, a complex case is presented. Though in many instances throughout the movie, Schindler presents himself as a self-righteous individual with a pompous attitude, his revelation at the end of the movie compels a different perspective.…

Foucault’s technologies of self, Grace Ministries, and the Lazarus Project Since they seek to change people’s lives and focus less on the social conditions contributing to addictions, could the Lazarus Project be called an “oppressive” organization? The concepts “technology of self” and “governmentality” (introduced by Michael Foucault) have come in vogue in the social science literature, and have been applied to the role of various non-profits. According to Ghatak and Abel (2013, p. 220), in…