Two prominent ways to view human life come from the great philosophers: Plato and Saint Augustine. ... When the lower passions are ruled by Reason, a person is also thereby just. ... In relation to Reason, the happy or just person possesses Wisdom (or prudence). In relation to Emotion, the just person has the virtue of Courage. ... We therefore have a "passion" in life, and this passion animates life itself. ...

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One string or person out of tune causes dissonance. ... This brings about a certain peace of mind and allows him to live life without regret for his decisions that have had some effect on his life and beliefs. ... By not forgiving the wrong doer you have the power of sustaining that persons grief and shame with themselves. By forgiving that person you can relieve that persons grief and give them a sense of peace to their mental state. ... The second definition says that a gadfly is a person who annoys others to fulfill a sense complacency. ...

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The modern day idea that dreams come from our daily life is partially accurate. When I say "partially" I mean only a specific aspect of dreams comes from daily life interactions. The imagery in dreams comes from daily life (Freud 1900). ... So to put it in lay terms "You"ll never see an object in dream that you haven't seen in your daily life" (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). ... The subconscious is usually the right side of the brain or the opposite side of persons writing hand. ...

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They have no sense of life. ... There are times in life that you question the meaningfulness of life. ... We never talk about ourselves in the third person. We refer to ourselves as I or me, in the first person. ... Thus we are not a single person but a collaboration of people placed inside one. ...

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Because of the anti-semitic riots who were ragging in Freiberg, Freud's father, who was a wool merchant, lost his business and the whole family had to move to Leipzig (1859) and shortly after to Vienna where Freud spend most of his life. ... To the eyes of Freud, working hard and wanting to find out about things were the two most important qualities in life. ... (Psychical Qualities) He believed, and many people after him also believed, that his theories about the mind uncovered some basic truths about how an individual is formed, and how culture and civilization operate on this par...

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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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They did not know the person who owned the Rolls Royce but clearly they felt a strong antipathy towards him. ... We can, and do slip back into it depending on circumstances throughout our life. ... (Sixth slide) In this slide we can see a child who seems fairly well adapted to his stage in life having an experience of a parent as a whole person. ... Because it is here that we spend most of our life caught up in the interrelationships of the mind. When these relationships produce too much anxiety then we tend to split off and project it outside and usually onto some other person who b...

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He opined that the soul never dies and it is destined to a cycle of rebirths until it is able to free itself from the cycle through the purity of its life 4. ... It is possible, according to him that our whole life could be a dream. ...

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Have you ever thought you saw someone in the corner of your eye, and when you looked there was no person there? ... LOGICO-SCIENTIFIC PERCEPTION OF REALITY: If we are concerned with: The purpose of life What we should be doing on Earth The meaning of life and death Then the issue of reality and the true nature of our existence is crucial. ...

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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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At this stage one could not imagine the soul as mental, immaterial, and imagined it as a special air substance that leaves a person with the last breath. ... Indeed, in Greek mythology there is the image of Psyche charming girl who embodies the spiritual life. ... Psyche combines various aspects of initial contradictions and is a special type of causal relationships, managing personal principle that directs human behavior and life-giving family. ... - Asks K.A.Helvetsiy. - Do consider it, as they did ancient and early church fathers, the extremely thin and liberated matter and the electric fi...

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