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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... suggests it's not just anyone whom it welcomes, only the elite. Perhaps that's what the architect wanted to do: welcome the elite warmly; but with institutional security. You may be right. Wait a minute. Give me that guide book and map ...
... suggests it's not just anyone whom it welcomes, only the elite. Perhaps that's what the architect wanted to do: welcome the elite warmly; but with institutional security. You may be right. Wait a minute. Give me that guide book and map ...
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... suggesting it was used to force open the rear door, and positive evidence—blood—proving it had been used to strike a hearty blow— luckily not fatal—at the back of the watchman's skull. Outside, in a large burlap sack were several boxes ...
... suggesting it was used to force open the rear door, and positive evidence—blood—proving it had been used to strike a hearty blow— luckily not fatal—at the back of the watchman's skull. Outside, in a large burlap sack were several boxes ...
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... suggestion; indeed one word will do it. It transforms everything, so that we must read the obvious backward. Perhaps this boy is not a liar as the prosecution says, but every word he says is true. Perhaps he was not taking the ...
... suggestion; indeed one word will do it. It transforms everything, so that we must read the obvious backward. Perhaps this boy is not a liar as the prosecution says, but every word he says is true. Perhaps he was not taking the ...
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... suggest that such learning is a discovery about being a friend in such a way as to change what being a friend means, so that you as thinker are metamorphized by the “bump” of this realization. In a way you're demanding that what happens ...
... suggest that such learning is a discovery about being a friend in such a way as to change what being a friend means, so that you as thinker are metamorphized by the “bump” of this realization. In a way you're demanding that what happens ...
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... suggests this: right after Bassanio chooses the correct casket, she tells him she would be trebled twenty times herself for his sake. But then she adds: . . . But the full sum of me Is sum of nothing, which, to term in gross, Is an ...
... suggests this: right after Bassanio chooses the correct casket, she tells him she would be trebled twenty times herself for his sake. But then she adds: . . . But the full sum of me Is sum of nothing, which, to term in gross, Is an ...
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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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