Transcendence

AGEING AND SPIRITUALITY Every individual visiting the earth have to return eventually to where they have come. This journey from womb to tomb is commonly conceptualized as life. Different disciplines, man invented, looks at this ‘life’ phenomenon from varied perspectives. From a conventional perspective, man has a quest within themselves to identify the purpose of their life or the journey they undertake during their visit to earth. Of course, life experiences play a vital role in humanizing…

Transcendentalism was a movement in philosophy, literature and religion that emerged in the nineteenth century to have originated from New England. The popular movement flourished in America after the American and Industrial Revolution. The philosophical movement expressed and reformed a new way of ideas that changed the way man understood their beliefs, along with knowing where their place is in the world while the society was changing. Transcendental philosophy as well saw that nature…

In the film “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer it follows the main actor, Chris McCandless along his path to happiness, it inspects and even explores all the accomplishments and attainment he subdues. McCandless willpower, intent ,stout- heartedness, and the want to strive and search for happiness are all inspected. That is what gives him the willpower to leave his family and his home without any remorse or any regret. McCandless represents to us as the audience that he is not only bright and…

Andrew Wyeth’s most famous piece of art, Christina’s World, is renowned as being one of the most famous of American portraits for its realistic depiction of a classic New England setting and a steadfast mysterious female with a deep background. Along with Wyeth’s rise to prominence, Christina’s World was his introduction into the “evolution of his own private language of metaphor.” As positioned in the painting, Christina lays where the painter first recognized her steadfast ambition, explaining…

unnatural, yet this does not negate the reality: Capitalism holds a monotony over social identity, and therefore progress made is only progress in relation to traditional Capitalism. Subsequently, there will never be a moment of genuine social transcendence until a separation from Capitalism is…

Transcendence: You expect the best in the future, and you work to achieve it. You believe that the future is something that you can control. You have strong and coherent beliefs about the higher purpose and meaning of the universe. You know where you fit into…

a human construct, which is completely subjective, and not existent in the world outside of our minds. This idea is supported by Nagel when he states that a mouse is not absurd “because he lacks the capacities for self-consciousness and self-transcendence that would enable him to see that he is only a mouse” (295). This applies to every organism and every object outside of the human mind. Because meaning is not just a human experience, it is subjective (as Wolf states, golfing might be…

Uppsala acknowledged secular world as locus and context of mission, “to a humanity that cries passionately and articulately for a fully human life.” This shift of focus from individual conversion towards world foreshadowed the crisis in mission as found in Donald McGavran’s question “Will Uppsala Betray the Two Billion?” According to McGavran the document “Renewal in Mission” did not give an authentic proposal for personal proclamation of the gospel, necessity of faith, the unevangelized…

Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell explores philosophical issues between the body, soul, and technology. While an aesthetically pleasing product of the science fiction genre, the film remarkably blends technology with religion and spirituality. It follows Kusanagi, a cyborg assassin working for Section 9, who, along with her team, is on a hunt to track down an anonymous hacker known as the Puppet Master. He is able to implant false memories in human bodies and, as a result, Kusanagi struggles…

Transcendentalism in The Scarlet Letter People every day are given the bountiful task of having to discern the perfections or flaws of a person’s being. Variations of personalities chose to put more emphasis on one attribute over the other. Belief systems or religions follow the same guidelines. For example, Puritanism and Transcendentalism are diverse forms of one population’s viewpoints. Nathaniel Hawthorne was raised in a Puritan home but married and converted to Transcendentalism. Nathaniel…