Transcendence

The culture of expressive individualism was sparked in the 1950’s as a contrast to the collective conformity of that era. Highly regulated and individually constraining individual sports forms were weakened for some people by the individualized nature of contemporary society. The 1960’s and 70’s produced a large amount of youth based alternative sports cultures that wanted to provide alternatives to traditional, highly regulated achievement based sports forms. In 1978 Bourdieu described…

nothingness, we may advance a description of Sartre’s concept of bad faith as a lie to ourselves in which we attempt to construct our Being into a “little God” (Sartre, 1984, pp. 81) by asserting our essence in the Being in-itself while maintaining our transcendence. This comes as a desire to assuage the anguish brought upon by the nothingness characterizing the inalienable freedom deriving from the transcendent nature of the Being for-itself. Sartre likens bad faith to deceiving oneself in…

I thought the world was a dark chasm which we all drifted towards and could never escape. I thought to live was pointless, an existence we were all damned to. We were all destined to be tainted. I was pessimistic. I took pride in it. I figured it was because I knew too much; I read too often. I believed that the world could not change, or that perhaps it was always changing I just simply did not possess any influence in its doing. Too often I grew frustrated over the repeated errors of humanity…

If I think of an image of God, my first causal thought is a visual image of God the Father. I would picture that God is someone like a Moses or Noah type figure. I do not believe that God is human like in appearance but that is my initial thought. There are times I imagine God is like a cloud but this cloud covers the entire earth. It is as if my view of God is he must have eyes like us in order to know what is going on with everyone. I believe he is all knowing and all-powerful yet I still…

they were playing with the mind. The Hindu belief on beauty is based on emotional and volitional processes. The Hindus are not scientific with their emotional take and view on beauty. It comes from the heart and deep within, using passion and transcendence to another level that cannot be defined by science. Beauty can evoke an out-of-body experience in a Hindu that would make Kant very…

securely met and the individual experiences a sense of fulfilment. These five stages are the original works of Maslow 's hierarchy, he later adapted his model and now includes a further three stage of cognitive, aesthetic, transcendence needs, the newly adapted model now puts transcendence also referred to as the spiritual needs at the top of the…

William Blake’s five-stanza poem “The fly” tries to see humanity in a fly. It narrates the poet’s act of thoughtlessness in brushing away a fly which leads to the contemplation of the act and its implications, which further reveals the essence of life as “thought is life” and the lack of it, death. As the stanzas proceed from observation，contemplation, and conclusion to revelation and liberation, I get an understanding of Blake’s philosophical system. In my essay, I will argue that Blake uses a…

he has returned again to the humdrum of life and its harsh realities. Recollecting the pieces of his soul enables him to fully transcend beyond his current circumstances. Wordsworth’s poetry also often wavers, jumping from one idea of bliss or transcendence to another,…

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GEROTRANSCENDENCE AND DISENGAGEMENT THEORY SIMILARITIES Wadensten (2003, p. 15) observes that although the disengagement theories and gerotranscendence theory seems to be very different, both theories shared similarities in meta-theoretical framework which indicate that this framework is the common positivist one. It viewed the individual as an object directed by internal and external forces when the researcher is mainly interested in the behavior of the…

conform and wears her A as a badge of her individuality, and simultaneously Hawthorne elevates her above the populace of the town by placing her on a scaffold. In this way, Hawthorne insinuates that her assertion of individuality leads to her transcendence, both literally and figuratively, to a station above that of the rest of…