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- 561: Herman Hesses Demian
- ... finally meets the player, Pistorius, an extricated theologian, the son of a pastor, and talented organist. The two become friends, realizing their connection is that of Abraxas. Pistorius teaches Sinclair to meditate; he teaches him Philosophy; he becomes a mentor to Sinclair. The companionship is a blessing to Sinclair, and Pistorius teachings work to confirm all that Sinclair contemplated, dreamt about, or questioned during this journey towards himself. [Our conversations]Rarely ... his dreams, the one he had unconsciously painted. Sinclair spends his vacation in vain, plagued by anxiousness to find her, Demian s mother. In the fall, he begins university only to be disappointed by his Philosophy courses, which offer him no new knowledge or enlightenment. Then one night, as he strolls through the streets, which are filled with the sounds the many drunken fraternities in the bars and taverns, he comes ...
- 562: A Look At Lsd And The Counter Culture Movement
- ... a 5 of his friends (other Harvard Psych professors) decided to goto Mexico for a trip. There they met Gerhart Braun a anthropologist-historian of the University of Mexico. After a dinner and discussion of philosophy, Braun told them that within the hot, tropical jungles of Mexico grows a power hallucinogen known to the Ancient Aztecs as Teonanacatl, or flesh of the gods. These magic mushrooms of Mexico had a long ... became one of the forces governing in many peoples lives, and the race to make it ahead allowed for one to walk all over one another if it meant reaping in the rewards. This materialistic philosophy caused a lose of individual spirituality and the understanding of ones self. We were getting ahead financially but at what expense the lost of spirituality? The introduction of sacred mind-expanding drugs began to question ...
- 563: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... and oratory descriptions to make her text come alive. She tried to pull from all the areas of her personality to develop something on paper, the way she experienced it in life. She showed her philosophy on how a person should live their and get the most out of it. In her autobiography she wrote: I had stifled longing. I used to climb to the top of one of the huge ... trees, which Janie associates with young black men, like TeaCake, who are often seen 'picking' guitars" (Conjured into Being, 16). The wind is commonly associated with love, the soul, and femininity. She expresses her feminist philosophy with the description of women not as weak creatures needing to be cared for, but as strong capable peers. Bryan D. Bourn, with help of Dr. Laura Zlogar of the Wisconsin-River Falls University discusses ...
- 564: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... for bitter wrangling among the representatives of various Russian Marxist Factions, and ended in a deep split that was mainly caused by Lenin -- his personality, his drive for power in the movement, and his "hard" philosophy of the disciplined party organization. At the close of the congress Lenin commanded a temporary majority for his faction and seized upon the label "Bolshevik" (Russian for Majority), while his opponents who inclined to the ... reconcile itself to Lenin's stress on the party organization. Trotsky stayed with the Menshevik faction until he joined Lenin in 1917. From that point on, he acomidated himself in large measure to Lenin's philosophy of party dictatorship, but his reservations came to the surface again in the years after his fall from power (Stoessinger, 13). In the months after the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party Lenin lost ...
- 565: Psychology
- ... Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory, devoted to the analysis of conscious thought into its basic elements, structuralism. It is understood that 'structuralism' was founded by Wilhelm Wundt. What made this 'new' psychology different from philosophy was the emphasis on measurement and control. The application of some of the basic scientific method to the study of the mental process. For psychology to become a natural science, it must confine itself to ... to by early psychologists as 'mind' or mental processes, which has become cognition or the cognitive process. The cognitive psychologist sees the person as an information processor and cognitive psychology , along with artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and neuroscience now form part of cognitive science, which emerged in the late 1970s. How can we divide up the work that psychologists do? There is much more under the heading of 'psychology' than ...
- 566: Wilhelm Roentgen
- ... author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical School in Zurich, Switzerland. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy on June 22, 1869. While he was attending the Swiss Federal Technical School, he met the beautiful Anna Bertha Ludwig at the Zum Grunen Glas, a cafe owned by her father. Wilhelm married Bertha on June 19, 1872 and they would later adopt a daughter. After he received his Doctor of Philosophy, he went back to the Zum Grunen Glas, where he knew he would be congratulated by some of his friends. There, he met one of his old professors, Professor Kundt, who suggested he should work ...
- 567: Ancient Egyptian Religion As Seen In Art And Architecture
- ... fortune. It will be nearly fifty years before the people represented by these pieces of time are honored for their diverse culture. Once vast and thriving, the Ancient Egyptian culture was a center of commerce, philosophy, and religion alike. The people had a culture like that of no other group in history; however, its complexity has led to many misconceptions about the Ancient Egyptian populace. The ever-popular archaic art style ... With the peoples of antiquity, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, belief in gods or in one god [formed] the focal point of manΉs world-outlook. Religion [provided] the stimulus to art and philosophy and a matrix for the development of moral principles. (Woldering 28) This similarity between everyday tasks and belief in the gods lead to advances in numerous aspects of this society. Ancient Egyptian religion has been ...
- 568: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female Labor", Signs, Spring 1994, Vol. 19: 682 9. Goody 132. 10. Kenneth G. Butler, "Footbinding, Exploitation and Wrongfulness: A Non- Marxist Conception", Diogenes (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies), Fall 1985, Vol. 13 1: 58. 11. Barbara Garlick, Suzanne Dixon and Pauline Allen, Stereotypes of Women in Power (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992) 122. 12. Davin 28. 13. Howard S. Levy ... 12. Blake, C. Fred. "Footbinding in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female Labor". Signs. Spring 1994, Vol. 19. Butler, Kenneth G. "Footbinding, Exploitation and Wrongfulness: A Non- Marxist Conception". Diogenes (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies). Fall 1985, Vol. 131 Davin, Delia. "The Custom of the Country". Times Literary Supplement. April 24, 1992. p.28. Feng, Jicai. The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994 ...
- 569: Meta Physics
- ... The term was first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings, which came after, or followed, the part, which treated of physics. This was Aristotle's first philosophy. His main concern was to obtain the type of knowledge that in his eyes earned the title "Wisdom." He didn't want to know only Wisdom, but there were things and ideas that he wanted ... and is concerned with "first principles and causes." What defines first principles and causes is the true foundation of Wisdom, thus leading Aristotle to studying, obtaining the knowledge of and writing his first work or philosophy. Aristotle never titled this work, so those who followed and studied his work actually gave it the title METAPHYSICS. With this idea of Metaphysics Aristotle deals with the highest level of abstraction. It is abstract ...
- 570: Three Sisters
- ... he lives only for the girls and would have died if it werent for their existence. Right from the start of the play he doubts the importance of things. We are introduced to his philosophy in his second line when he says, For hair falling out... two ounces of naphthalene in half a bottle of alcohol
to be dissolved and used daily...Let's make a note of it! No, I don't want it
It doesn't matter. At the point when he is drunk, he takes this philosophy to a higher level and believes that his life and others are pointless. Chebutykin seems to be an intelligent and pleasant man because of the way he treats other people and talks but now he ...
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