Two prominent ways to view human life come from the great philosophers: Plato and Saint Augustine. These men devoted much of their lives to pondering over these great questions of human life; however, they take drastically different views. ... So, in a sense, our humanity is simply a punishment or prison for failing to allow reason to rule our lives. ... Our souls, however, are immortal and I believe they will be the part of us which lives onto eternity. ... We therefore have a "passion" in life, and this passion animates life itself. ...

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Obviously they've figured out what meanings their lives have. ... The others: life can have meaning and life doesn't have meaning, do not catch my attention. If you look at Zorba and R.P. they understand that their lives have meaning and that they control their how and which they please. ... They have no sense of life. ... There are times in life that you question the meaningfulness of life. ...

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Like a heart taken out of a young woman who has just died in an accident and soon to be transplanted into someone else's thorax thousands of miles away, Descartes's mind requires artificial life-support to keep it viable. Only a mind put in the strangest position, looking at a world from the inside out and linked to the outside by nothing but the tenuous connection of the gaze will throb in the constant fear of losing reality; only such a bodiless observer will desperately look for some absolute life-supporting survival kit. ...

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Victor's true desire to give life is motivated by the yearning to regain his mother, yet his Creature becomes instead a mirror of his unconscious mind. ... It appeared to me sacrilege to so soon to leave the repose, akin to death, of the house of mourning, and rush into the thick of life"(50). ... Victor feels as though everything in his life has been destroyed and that leaving home is just another step in the wrong direction. ... In Ingolstadt, Victor continues to isolate himself, begins a manic pursuit to gain knowledge only in areas that he can relate to his desire to renew life....

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But we also know that he may be born in reasonably secure surroundings and still have a disturbed and difficult life. ... What we discover, if you study babies in their early months of life, is that the baby develops more than one relationship with its mother! ... We can, and do slip back into it depending on circumstances throughout our life. ... Because it is here that we spend most of our life caught up in the interrelationships of the mind. ... (slides eight and nine) In our personal lives it can effect how we feel about ourselves, about our partners and family even down to how we ...

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The importance of a good education was introduced to Kohler early in life, for his father was a schoolmaster, his sisters were nurses and educators, and Wilhelm, his older brother, was a scholar. ... His dissertation was written on psycho-acoustics and physics - music obviously playing a large role in Kohlers life. ... He gave his life to psychology as shown by the many works that he published and teaching and research positions that he took. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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