What Happens to Us When We Think: Transformation and RealityState University of New York Press, 1. 2. 2012 - Počet stran: 157 Author Michael Gelven suggests that thinking metaphysically transforms us, and consequently the nature of metaphysics itself is transformational. Using concrete existential phenomena such as the learning process, how children mature into adults, and how fear can develop into courage, he establishes an understanding of metaphysical transformation. |
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... mere word. You're afraid to say that word, aren't you? Just now, when I said I wish I weren't so . . . and then broke off—you expected another word didn't you? So go ahead, say it! What word do you want me to say? Chicken. Are you ...
... mere word. You're afraid to say that word, aren't you? Just now, when I said I wish I weren't so . . . and then broke off—you expected another word didn't you? So go ahead, say it! What word do you want me to say? Chicken. Are you ...
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... mere public defender, was appointed. He would not talk to me about that night at all. Above all, even now, he remains silent about the one thing that would be the easiest to explain away. The one word I offer to you that enables us to ...
... mere public defender, was appointed. He would not talk to me about that night at all. Above all, even now, he remains silent about the one thing that would be the easiest to explain away. The one word I offer to you that enables us to ...
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... merely of how the professor runs the class. You don't have to treat the theories we read as untrue or as mere alternatives. That's what I thought at first. But it's deeper than that. Consider what we do, or what we are expected to do ...
... merely of how the professor runs the class. You don't have to treat the theories we read as untrue or as mere alternatives. That's what I thought at first. But it's deeper than that. Consider what we do, or what we are expected to do ...
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... mere theorists of friendship. But if I think about laughter and friendship, how can I avoid my con- cern to make them compatible—and to think of them as compatible is to theorize. The danger is that your attempt to make friendship ...
... mere theorists of friendship. But if I think about laughter and friendship, how can I avoid my con- cern to make them compatible—and to think of them as compatible is to theorize. The danger is that your attempt to make friendship ...
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... merely about friends, it is part of what it means to be friends. I am not some outsider looking in, I am overwhelmed by the reality of what it means to be a citizen and a friend, and that is not the result of theorizing but of thinking ...
... merely about friends, it is part of what it means to be friends. I am not some outsider looking in, I am overwhelmed by the reality of what it means to be a citizen and a friend, and that is not the result of theorizing but of thinking ...
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2 Wonder | 19 |
3 Being Real | 31 |
4 Violence | 43 |
5 Truth | 59 |
6 The Learner | 71 |
7 The Student | 89 |
8 The Child | 107 |
9 Conflict and Coherence | 119 |
10 Origins | 133 |
Index | 145 |
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