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My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence I am the representative embodiment of my nihilistic culture. I am narcissistic‚ insatiable‚ petty‚ apathetic and I am above all an emotional invalid. Yet‚ up until very recently‚ I was not consciously aware that I was guilty of having any of these wholly pejorative attributes‚ because I had unconsciously suppressed my inherent will to attain a meaningful existence‚ in favor of the comfort and security that complacency and futility provide. There
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“How do you sustain a journey‚ a path toward truth‚ the way to truth?” Cornel West‚ a Philosophy professor at Princeton University‚ challenged this question in his documentary titled “The Examined Life.” Many famous philosophers have asked the question- what is the human condition? Notably‚ the human condition requires you to have courage to desire the truth‚ and desire the reasoning behind that truth. The human condition is conflict‚ growth‚ and aspiration throughout a lifetime. Conflict in someone’s
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In Viktor Frankl’s novel‚ A Man’s Search for Meaning‚ he starts by describing the stages he stages he noticed the prisoners go through while in the camps. Eventually he gets to the complete and utter apathy that one experiences when they are faced with traumatic things everyday. In DeSpelder and Strickland’s‚ The Last Dance‚ they describe different attitudes towards death and how many cultures view death as “not as a means to an end but as a change of status” and in Frankl’s story I feel as though
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initiates a new debate on Iqbal”. Iqbal. LHR. 39/40: 1/4 (Oct. 92‚ Jan.‚ 1993)‚ pp. 97-100 Nazir Qaiser. “An Analysis of Western Sources of Iqbal’s Philosophy”. Daily The Nation‚ LHR. (9th November 1992) Nazir Qaiser. “Iqbal’s Purposive Activism and Logotherapy”. Daily The Nation‚ LHR. (21st April 1992) Puri‚ Mali “Azad and Iqbal: a comparative study”. Islam and the Modern Age‚ New Delhi. 22:1 (1991 publ. 1992)‚ pp. 75-9O Qamar. M.H. “Iqbal’s Poetry”. Daily The Pakistan Times‚ LHR. (17th Jan. 1992)
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Introduction Criminologist and politicians have debated the effectiveness of correctional rehabilitation programs since the 1970’s when criminal justice scholars and policy makers throughout the United States embraced Robert Martinson’s credo of “nothing works” (Shrum‚ 2004). Recidivism‚ the rate at which released offenders return to jail or prison‚ has become the most accepted outcome measure in corrections. The public’s desire to reduce the economic and social costs associated with crime and incarceration
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horrors faced during the Holocaust‚ Viktor E. Frankl analyzes the different mental states experienced by a concentration camp prisoner in his book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl includes many of his own personal examples to support his theory of logotherapy which focuses on finding the meaning of man’s life. He demonstrates throughout his book that if a man has a reason to live and the right state of mind‚ he can endure any condition. In one section of his book‚ Frankl specifically concentrates on
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Life was consumed by constant orders‚ labor‚ malnutrition‚ disease‚ and murder in the concentration camps. Yet somehow the human psyche in many individuals was able to endure throughout these imprisonments. Men and women were almost completely dehumanized during this genocide‚ but their psyche survived it. People had to find little things to keep themselves content and to nurture their psyche. “Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation” (63). Humor allows a person
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Freedom and Life as we know it Freedom can mean a variety of different things to different people. To some‚ freedom may mean political equality‚ self-ownership‚ choosing what to believe in‚ or committing actions without restraint. However‚ how much freedom do the citizens of this world actually own? Fyodor Dostoyevsky gives his readers different perspectives about freedom in his story of The Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Man‚ while Viktor Frankl insists that everyone has an inner freedom that
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The Meaning of Life The meaning of life‚ defined by Victor E. Frankl‚ is the will to find your meaning in life. It is not the meaning of life in general‚ but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. He believes that if you are approached with the question of "what is the meaning of my life" or in this case‚ "life is meaningless‚" then you should reverse the question to that person asking the question. For example: What are you bringing to me? What are you as an individual
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