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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... 5748-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Metaphysics—Psychological aspects. 2. Thought and thinking. 3. Change. I. Title. BD111.G45 2003 110—dc21 2002192954 10987654321 to Sebastian Stark and Nathan Birkholz This page intentionally left.
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... thought you liked maps. I like maps if I want to get somewhere or know where I am. But just looking is different. It was that one word: architecture. That transformed everything, didn't it? How silly of you not to have noticed. I? I not ...
... thought you liked maps. I like maps if I want to get somewhere or know where I am. But just looking is different. It was that one word: architecture. That transformed everything, didn't it? How silly of you not to have noticed. I? I not ...
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... thought the prosecution does not want you to take, so she directed your attention to the motive for wiping the bar, but not by stating the obvious motive, but by asking if you would have done so. You—each of you—realized immediately why ...
... thought the prosecution does not want you to take, so she directed your attention to the motive for wiping the bar, but not by stating the obvious motive, but by asking if you would have done so. You—each of you—realized immediately why ...
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... thought at first. But it's deeper than that. Consider what we do, or what we are expected to do. We study theories of reality without studying reality itself. Romeo does not consider theories of beauty when he sees Juliet, his sudden ...
... thought at first. But it's deeper than that. Consider what we do, or what we are expected to do. We study theories of reality without studying reality itself. Romeo does not consider theories of beauty when he sees Juliet, his sudden ...
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... thought. I am thinking—nontheoretically—directly about what it means to be a friend, what it means to be a citizen. I grant later on I can also speculate theoretically about it, but why would you deny I am thinking about the reality of ...
... thought. I am thinking—nontheoretically—directly about what it means to be a friend, what it means to be a citizen. I grant later on I can also speculate theoretically about it, but why would you deny I am thinking about the reality of ...
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1 | |
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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