AlanWatts Alan Watts or Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher‚ writer‚ and speaker who popularized and interpreted Eastern Philosophy for the ... Read More Albert Camus A Nobel Prize laureate‚ Albert Camus was the French Algerian philosopher‚ author and journalist‚ much renowned worldwide for his contribution in ... Read More Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer was a German born French theologian‚ organist‚ philosopher‚ physician‚ and medical missionary. His notable work is in founding
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K.‚ Fast Cars‚ Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (Massachusetts: MIT Press‚ 1995). Seidman‚ M.‚ The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (Oxford: Berg Books‚ 2004). Scriven‚ M.‚ Jean-Paul Sartre: Politics and Culture in Postwar France (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan‚ 1999) Sowerwine‚ C.‚ France since 1870: Culture‚ Politics and Society (New York: Palgrave Macmillan‚ 2001) Thomas‚ N.‚ Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History
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lAira G. Manalo August 31‚ 2012 COM31 Mr. Edgar Garnace Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella) I believe that being free is a matter of choice. We are free because we want to be defined not by other people but ourselves. We make choices together with the thought of making a choice for the good of everyone. We exist not for other people to tie strings on our hands and feet and do the manipulation. I don’t exactly know what to feel about this film. It was a good laugh and a painful
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African Literature Examples of pre-colonial African literature are numerous. Oral literature of west Africa includes the "Epic of Sundiata" composed in medieval Mali‚ and the older "Epic of Dinga" from the old Ghana Empire. In Ethiopia‚ there is a substantial literature written in Ge’ez going back at least to the 4th century AD; the best-known work in this tradition is the Kebra Negast‚ or "Book of Kings." One popular form of traditional African folktale is the "trickster" story‚ where a small animal
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A well-known writer thanks to her novels but also thanks to her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre‚ Simone de Beauvoir is one of the most famous novelist and feminist of the last century. Most of her novels‚ among whom She Came To Stay (1943) and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) treated the main subject of finding one’s place in the world‚ more precisely in society. Yet‚ the novel which‚ until today‚ creates debates and provokes reactions is The Second Sex which she wrote in 1949 and which is
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Foucault and Truffaut: Power and Social Control in French Society Both Michel Foucault and Truffaut’s depiction of a disciplinary society are nearly identical. But Truffaut’s interpretation sees more room for freedom within the disciplinary society. The difference stems from Foucault’s belief that the social control in disciplinary pervades all elements of life and there is no escape from this type of control. Foucault’s work deals mostly with "power" and his conception of it. Like Nietzsche
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Prize presentation takes place. The first Nobel Prize laureate in literature was Sully Prudhomme. The Prize wasn’t considered 7 times in 1914‚ 1918‚ 1935 and 1940-1943‚ 2 Prizes were awarded during one year in у 1904‚ 1917‚ 1966 and 1974. Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Pasternak refused to take the Prize. The Prize even was awarded posthumously once. Erik Axel Karlfeldt received it after having been the member of the Academy for 20 years. He served there as a secretary and was nominated twice but he
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Kant rejected theonomy and instead proposed that because free will is a human trait‚ we should aim to keep hold of that and retain our personal autonomy - not requiring any aspect of religion to govern our moral values. He holds the deontological view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong‚ regardless of whether they beget positive or negative consequences. Such absolute rules are described in his 1785 text Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals as categorical imperatives: unconditional
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What are the tenets of an existential-humanistic approach to counselling and how relevant is this counselling approach in the African cultural setting? Existential-Humanistic psychology looks at individuals as a whole person and living in a socially interconnected and holistic world. It focuses on helping the individual self-discover the healing process‚ leading eventually to improved self-esteem. High self-esteem has many positive social benefits: individual happiness (Shackelford‚ 2001)‚ academic
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Existentialists such as Sartre and Kierkegaard advocated for individual meaning and morality in a meaningless world‚ particularly through one’s actions and responses to consequences. In his essay‚ “Suicide and Atheism: Camus and The Myth of Sisyphus‚” Richard Barnett describes the existential value of choice: “It is in making choices‚ in asserting our ultimate freedom in the face of an uncaring world‚ that human life can be lived in its fullest and richest sense” (2). This principle can be applied
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