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subject and immortality
The Alexandrists were a school of Renaissance philosophers who, in the great controversy on the subject of personal immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by Alexander of Aphrodisias.
This sacred subject carved on early Christian tombs, where the sepulchral carvings have an important purpose, " a faithful wish for immortality, with the victory of the cock and his supporting genius analogous to the hope of resurrection, the victory of the soul over death ".
This sacred subject carved on early Christian tombs, where the sepulchral carvings have a deeply important formal symbolic purpose, a faithful wish for immortality, " with the victory of the cock and his supporting genius analogous to the hope of resurrection, the victory of the soul over death ", with further understanding as to that of the gallantry of cocks being taken in the context of a religious instilling vessel of " a girt one of the loins "( Young's Literal Translation ) that which is " stately in his stride " and " move with stately bearing " within the Book of Proverbs 30: 29-31.
Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).
", the Encyclopedia of Christianity ( 2003 ), says " The Hebrew Bible does not present the human soul ( nepeš ) or spirit ( rûah ) as an immortal substance, and for the most part it envisions the dead as ghosts in Sheol, the dark, sleepy underworld ", The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ( 2005 ), says " there is practically no specific teaching on the subject in the Bible beyond an underlying assumption of some form of afterlife ( see immortality )", and the Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible ( rev.
Sain and teammate Spahn achieved joint immortality that year when their feats were the subject of sports editor Gerald V. Hern's poem in the Boston Post which was eventually shortened to the epigram, " Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.
This is the subject of a story of Wu Gang, a man who aspired to immortality and neglected his work.
Throughout this time, Orr was fascinated with the idea of not experiencing physical death, which he termed " physical immortality ", and read, studied and searched for all the information that he could on the subject.
Unlike other stories that deal with the subject of immortality, Modesitt takes it a step further, ending Gerswin's tale with a tragic twist.
In the spring of 1933 Trick suggested the two men both write a poem on the subject of ' immortality '.
In his studies, he stumbled upon the subject of immortality -- a subject that Zhang found interesting.
Later Hobson Matthews wrote several poems, such as the patriotic " Can Wlascar Agam Mamvro " (" Patriotic Song of our Motherland "), and Robert Morton Nance, a disciple of Henry Jenner, created a body of verse, for example " Nyns yu Marow Myghtern Arthur " (" King Arthur is not Dead "), which concerns the popular Cornish subject of King Arthur's legendary immortality.
In 1868 he was elected Hulsean lecturer, taking as his subject Immortality or rather conditional immortality ; stating " The immortality of the soul is a phantom which eludes your eager grasp.

subject and brings
But no matter what he writes about he brings to his subject his own original mind and his own sensitive reactions.
Many such people believed in the idea that the United States is by definition benevolent, that the extension of its power, influence and hegemony is an extension of benevolence and brings freedom to those people subject to that hegemony.
The lens of a camera captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film or detector.
And it is an answer that brings honor to its subject.
Palenville, the Kaaterskill Creek and the Kaaterskill Clove remains a popular subject for painters as well but times change and with the popularity of its vacation traffic, changes in taste, technology and all that progress brings the painters had long moved on by the time of the great wars.
When art critic Franz Roh applied the term magic realism to visual art in 1925, he was designating a style of visual art that brings extreme realism to the depiction of mundane subject matter, revealing an " interior " mystery, rather than imposing external, overtly magical features onto this everyday reality.
The anatomy of the airways brings with it complications, since the inspired air must pass through the mouth, trachea, bronchi and bronchioles before it gets to the alveoli where gas exchange will occur ; on exhalation, alveolar gas must return along the same path, and so the exhaled sample will be purely alveolar only after a 500 to 1, 000 ml of gas has left the subject.
While Rondo form is similar to ritornello form, it is different in that ritornello brings back the subject or main theme in fragments and in different keys, but the rondo brings back its theme complete and in the same key.
A less common belief is that fish are not subject to " ayin hara " (" evil eye ") because they are submerged while alive, so that a dish prepared from several fish varieties brings good luck.
Morvan brings a briefcase with him containing depositions from witnesses who have known Croker as well as “ confidences ” from the subject himself all neatly filed by subject matter: “ Work, family … finances, art and nature, heart and conscience ...” – in short what used to be referred to as ‘ the human condition ’.
When they get home and Stan accidentally brings up the subject of the convention, however, it turns out Oliver's wife will not let him go as they had already arranged a mountain trip together ( which Oliver had forgotten about ).
* Secondary or conventional subject matter ( iconography ): This stratum goes a step further and brings to the equation cultural and iconographic knowledge.
Below is an excerpt from a collection of interviews which brings to light his ideas on the subject.
About two-thirds into the fugue, Shostakovich brings back the original subject in the bass combined with the second subject in the soprano.
The music then settles down, gently leading to the recapitulation, where a single statement of the subject in the tonic key brings the piece to a close.
Andy believes Ephram and brings the subject up with Colin's parents.
While the octave offers the poet as a literary explorer, the volta brings in the discovery of Chapman's Homer, the subject of which is further expanded through the use of imagery and comparisons which convey the poet's sense of awe at the discovery.
Like Mussorgsky, Shostakovich brings back the subject of death in various images and situations.
In the first place, for its buildings, especially the Eiffel tower and the Machinery Hall ; in the second place, for its Colonial Exhibition, which for the first time brings vividly to the appreciation of the Frenchmen that they are masters of lands beyond the sea ; thirdly, it will be remembered for its great collection of war material, the most absorbing subject now-a-days, unfortunately, to governments if not to individuals ; and fourthly, it will be remembered, and with good cause by many, for the extraordinary manner in which South American countries are represented.
The river is subject to flooding due to high rainfall amounts and some of the deepest snow packs in the country, sometimes triggered by a Pineapple Express, a weather pattern that brings central Pacific wind and rain to the northwest.
During the eighth, he follows his subject into the " void " and has a near-death experience in which he is informed that a telepath investigating death only experiences what he brings in his heart ; he realized his is empty as he then experiences nothingness before being resuscitated by the hospital staff attending to the dying subject.

subject and mind
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
he displays what outlanders call the New York mind, a state that the subject is necessarily unable to perceive in himself.
Martin Heidegger argued that the relation between the subject and object is ambiguous, as is the relation of mind and body, and part and whole.
On the other hand, an amateur may be in a position to approach a subject with an open mind ( as a result of the lack of formal training ) and in a financially disinterested manner.
In fact, it developed as one of the significant aspects of the inter-disciplinary subject of cognitive science, which attempts to integrate a range of approaches in research on the mind and mental processes.
Moreover, the path is not a beaten highway of authorship, nor one in which the mind is eager to range: there is not one of us who has made the same venture, nor yet one Greek who has tackled single-handed all departments of the subject.
While stylistically influenced by the Post-Impressionists, what evolved was a subject matter which was symbolist in content, depicting a state of mind rather than an external reality.
When James Braid first described hypnotism, he did not use the term " suggestion " but referred instead to the act of focusing the conscious mind of the subject upon a single dominant idea.
In a normal state of mind, the subject will do or believe as his reason dictates.
Usually ' internalism ' refers to the belief that an explanation can be given of the given subject by pointing to things which are internal to the person or their mind who is considering them.
* The librarian can briefly teach the user how to use the catalogue and how to use its advanced features, or recommend the proper subject words or terms that are used in the catalogue for the topic the user has in mind.
In contemporary analytic philosophy, the issue of subject — and more specifically the " point of view " of the subject, or " subjectivity " -- has received attention as one of the major intractable problems in philosophy of mind ( a related issue being the mind-body problem ).
It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
" I maintain ", he wrote, " that a universal is not something real that exists in a subject ... but that it has a being only as a thought-object in the mind in anima ".
In psychology, the subject of imagination was again explored more extensively since Whitehead, and the question of feasibility or " eternal objects " of thought became central to the impaired theory of mind explorations that framed postmodern cognitive science.
Some historians have asserted that creating a " Manchurian Candidate " subject through " mind control " techniques was a goal of MKUltra and related CIA projects.
New ideas can arise when the conscious mind turns away from the subject or problem, when the inventor's focus is on something else, or while relaxing or sleeping.
Deep in an international crisis, the Prime Minister informed the Prince of Wales that it had been a dark morning, and that " my mind must have been occupied by some subject of less importance.
On the subject of propaganda, it should be borne in mind that, contrary to the impression given in the popular American film The Patriot, British forces never adopted a popular response to partisan-style asymmetric warfare — retribution massacres of groups selected on a semi-random basis from the population at large.
A certain amount of focusing or restricting the mind to some imagined object ( or will ), according to Aleister Crowley, produces mystical attainment or " an occurrence in the brain characterized essentially by the uniting of subject and object " ( Book Four, Part 1: Mysticism ).
Freud famously described psychoanalytic dream-interpretation as " the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind "; he was, however, capable of expressing regret and dissatisfaction at the way his ideas on the subject were misrepresented or simply not understood:
It may also be considered, " a philosophy of life ( Weltanschauung ), a way of relating the human mind to the world and creating a completeness when dealing with a subject " ( Bandur 2001, 5 ).

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