scholarly journals The "rediscovery" of the meaning of life in the time of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Furio Pesci
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Philosophical Question

The time of the pandemic is characterized by multiple painful experiences: illness, death, the limitation of personal freedoms, the fear of contagion, widespread impoverishment. It is difficult to talk about the "positive" aspects of an emergency that is not over yet, but during its course it is possible to grasp from those same experiences that characterize it a new opportunity to reflect on aspects of human existence that the consumerist mentality previously placed in the background. The restrictions imposed by the health emergency have led to a collapse in investments and consumption which, if it has complicated the economic situation of many countries, makes it possible to "discover" the possibility that life can pass peacefully even without all the comforts and possibilities previously available. With this new awareness it is possible to reflect on the "philosophical" question of the meaning of life and on what is really "essential" for a possible happiness despite the contingencies of the time we live in.

The Darwin-God dilemma: A totemic approach to the meaning of life and human existence.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-361
Author(s):  
Yueh-Ting Lee ◽  
Matt Jamnik ◽  
Kortney Maedge ◽  
Wenting Chen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence

scholarly journals Pytanie o sens życia

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Karol Bujnowski
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Nowadays more often people are asking about the meaning of life. It is a fundamental question that every human being faces. Man is asking whether life is worth living, what to do to make our life meaningful?A human being, among many needs, has the need for discovering the sense of life, the need comes from the very core of human existence as placed in time and connected with the phenomenon of passing away. Discovering the sense of life leads to the experience of happiness, joy, and to inner life lived much more to the full. Showing the meaning of life and helping to find that meaning are very important functions of religion. Due to it, a man is able to live one’s life, ambitions, goals, joyful moments as well as his or her suffering in the light of deeper understanding. Religion is the one that can often bring the richest and deepest answers to the question of the two meanings: the meaning of life and the world.

scholarly journals Dialectics of the Genius

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Popek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Theoretical Base ◽  
The People ◽  
Work Done

A man tirelessly looks for answers to numerous questions about deep ontological problems concerning the meaning of life, fundamental reasons or the last things. The aim of the article is to build a theoretical base, on the basis of which one will have opportunity to ask yet further questions, which are relevant in relation to human existence especially for philosophers. The genius requires a huge commitment to get to it. It also involves an internal declaration of continuous self-improvement. Contrary to the philosophers of the era of modernism, I believe that to a greater or lesser extent, every person can potentially be genuine and great. After all in the mechanism and in the specific rhythm of tape improvement of the product as well as in the fiery ideas contemplated by the people of philosophy and art we can find passion for life and creativity People as such do not live in strictly defined internal boundaries and therefore they can constantly develop. If a wider group of philosophers can be interested in the concept of philosophy which is open to current human problems, interested primarily in other people (also in the sense of their huge diversity), then the goal of this essay will eventually be achieved. From the perspective of the possibility of a sense of job satisfaction it does not matter whether someone cooks well or paints beautifully. Everybody can equally develop in the essential sense of self-improvement. The scientific aspirations of the approach to this philosophical problem are fortunately unable to hide the values of human work in general, and especially the work done on oneself, overcoming one's own prejudices and going beyond the previously established conventions. It is only the acquisition of the ability to play freely with what is given to an existence that gives a man the chance to free himself from the shackles of restrictions existing on many levels of culture, religion or art.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENTIAL NATURE OF THE HIKMETS OF AHMED YASSAWI

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
N. Sarsenbekov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Direct Path ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Time And Being

This article analyzes existential concepts in the work of Ahmet Yassawi “Diwani hikmet”, which forms the Sufi direction of the deeply rooted Turkic civilization, using comparative research methods. In this context, the article collected and investigated the following metaphysical problems, such as the unity and struggle of time and being, disinterested attachment to the Creator, as well as the phenomenon of life and death. The content of the Hikmet is an existential representation of a religious preaching orientation, filled with the principles of a nomadic civilization developed in the Kazakh steppe. Although the main goal of the Hikmet is religious, there are often such existentials as the existence of the Creator and the problems of human existence, life and death, morality, justice, responsibility, conscience. The main position of the Hikmets is to point out a direct path to the Islamic world and suggest ways to form a “True Muslim”. The concepts of the book of wisdom are a way of revealing transcendental contradictions for those who are in an existential crisis. For those who cannot understand the meaning of life and are in existential stagnation, we decided to use the hikmet of Ahmet Yassawi to explain the meaning of real life.

scholarly journals Existential and religious motifs in L.S. Vygotsky’s essay on “Hamlet” (1916)

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
M.G. Chesnokova
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Existential Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In this article existential and religious motifs in the works of young L.S. Vygotsky are considered. The specificity of the existential approach, characterized by blurring the limits of philosophy, science and art and the formation of a synthetic method of cognition of a human being, is emphasized. These features are found in the early works of Vygotsky. The analysis of his essay “The tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare” (1916) is the focus of attention. The existential orientation distinguishes both the form and the content of Vygotsky’s work. The genre of the work is a combination of literary criticism and philosophical psychological research. In his essay Vygotsky touches on such existential topics as: the tragedy and loneliness of human existence, existential guilt as the guilt of birth, the issue of formation and self-fulfillment of a man, the relationship of knowledge and action, the dialectic of the external and the internal, the issue of the moduses of human existence — “sinful innocence”, ethical and religious existence, the issue of meaning of life. The parallel between Vygotsky’s existential views, developed in this essay, and the ideas of well-known representatives of the existential approach is drawn. From the existential issues of the play Vygotsky moves on to its inner meaning, which he defines as religious. The four main themes he reveals most fully: the issue of connection between the two worlds — the world of the dead and the world of the living, the issue of sin, punishment and redemption, the issue of darkness of divine Providence (meaning of life) and the issue of overcoming separateness and restoring the unity of the world. In the article the main provisions and principles of study of early Vygotsky and Vygotsky in the period of creation of cultural-historical theory are compared. A continuity between the ideas of Vygotsky’s early works and his latest project of dramatic psychology is observed.

scholarly journals A HUMAN BEING AS THE TWOFOLD ENTETY OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Svitlana Povtoreva
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Human World ◽  
Theoretical Construction

The review is devoted to the analysis of features of a theoretical construction which Victor Petrushenko calls as “psychological ontology”. The review emphasizes the original explanation of the structure of the psychological picture of the human world and its components – forms of empirical knowledge (feelings, perceptions and representations). The author of the monograph analyzes the dynamic interaction of thinking, or the second reflection, with the psychics (the first reflection), as a result of which we distinguish between being and non-being. The main conclusion of the monograph is that human existence is an intertwining of psychology with ontology, and it is well argued. Only through such a linkage of psychics and being the meaning of life, society, morality, values, responsibility are possible.

Pensar e construir: Experiência e vivências

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damião Conceição de Souza Borges ◽  
Sandra Célia Coelho Gomes Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Lay People ◽  
The Face ◽  
Curricular Structure ◽  
The University

In the face of a society that liquefies the dimensions of human existence, this project of strengthening institutional links is quite significant, as there is a concern with the formation of the human person as a whole. At the present time, self-donation seems to go against the prevailing “cultural” current. However, this work is proof that the collaborative dimension must be enhanced. Taking advantage of the institutional purpose in the various Campuses of the University of the State of Bahia (UNEB) and the interest of the Diocese of Ilhéus to build partnerships, an intertwining of interests arose, made positive by the conclusion of an agreement, the result of a pilgrimage of knowledge, juxtaposed in a common interest. The current “culture”, marked by immanence, which imprisons the human being in the immediate and does not respond to his deepest aspirations regarding the meaning of life, lacks a humanism that is capable of showing the existence of the Divine. The Ilheus School of Theology (ETEL), which aims to train its lay people, was based on the curricular structure of the Institute of Theology of the Diocese of Ilhéus, which became one of the most renowned institutes of Philosophy and Theology in Brazil. Through this agreement with UNEB, it was possible to academically institutionalize a relevant action already developed by the diocese. This partnership experience between UNEB and ETEL was and has been enriching, with gains for both institutions.

scholarly journals THE MEANING OF LIFE AS A PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEM IN THE CONTEXT OF AXIOLOGICAL EXPLICATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (40) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Igor Sukhina
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
Life Values ◽  
And Performance

A conceptualized axiological expression of the meaning of life as an essential characteristic of human being is presented. Accordingly, the actual value and content of the matter is emphasized. The primacy of the problem of understood self-determination for human existence is shown. Classification of basic meaning values is considered, and their axiological analysis is carried out. The idea of a well-understood determination of human existence in its personified certainty, viability and performance, which is up-to-date by the highest values, is carried out.Keywords: Person, Personality, Human Being, Value, Sense, Meaning, Importance, Meaning of Life, Values of Meaning of Life.

scholarly journals WOMEN´S PERCEPTIONS OF MENOPAUSE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE MEANING OF LIFE AND THE CULTURE O FEAR

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
FLOR IVETT REYES GUILLÉN
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, an analysis of the results found in a research whose objective was to know the perceptions of women about menopause and its relationship with the culture of fear is presented. Information was obtained through structured interviews. The analysis focused on the recognition of its importance and the presence of fear before this stage of life. Likewise, the results were analyzed in relation to the importance of the meaning of life as the goal of human existence, without forgetting the relationship of this theme with fear. Fear was an agent of control of our aspirations and the identification of our scope. Important results were obtained in relation to both the fear of old age and the fear of death. A group of women under the age of forty and a group of women over the age of 40 years were interviewed. The young women who participated in the study expressed fear of death, and they are saddened to leave unfinished projects; while the fear reflected by older women generates that same sadness but directed only to the purely familiar aspects.

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