'Freedom and Death' is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad.
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Gardners Books
ISBN: 057117857X
Category: Fiction
Page: 472
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Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence.
It is the story of how weakness can become strength, how our limitations can be transcended as we learn to love and to trust ourselves and the other people in our lives.
Author: Tolly Burkan
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ISBN: 1535568801
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Many of us experience depression and fear more often than we would like to, many of us feel dissatisfaction with the unhappiness or anxiety in which we habitually find ourselves, but we don't know what to do about changing our mental condition and conditioning. Dying To Live isn't just a blueprint of a struggle toward maturity, it is a blueprint for the integration of body, mind and spirit. It is the story of how weakness can become strength, how our limitations can be transcended as we learn to love and to trust ourselves and the other people in our lives. Tolly doesn't give us answers in Dying To Live; he tells us about the answers he has found for himself. I believe these can help and inspire others to find their own answers.
He saw it best on the whole to make man free , even though he would abuse his freedom , rather than to make him a slave , being bound to a certain result by the
law of cause and effect , as the sun and stars or the animals , and consequently ...
truth , equal rights , southern rights , nationality , liberty of conscience , religious
liberty , Virginia , union and the constitution , together with many other mottoes of freedom and of right , emblazoned on its banner . Its candidates are now all in ...
They will also, crucially, always be unfamiliar to patients, with limited social
support and limited freedom, and will present cultural, institutional, legal, and
practical barriers to demedicalized death. It is not reasonable to ask hospitals,
created to ...
Author: Lauren K. Hall
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9781421433332
Category: Medical
Page: 352
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The Medicalization of Birth and Death is required reading for academics, patients, providers, policymakers, and anyone else interested in how policy shapes healthcare options and limits patients and providers during life's most profound moments.
Author: Edward SAMUEL (Baptist Minister)Publish On: 1860
Christ Jesus , hath made me free from the law of sin and death , ” Rom . viii . 2.
Now who can estimate such a liberty as this ? What slavery , what an intolerable
drudgery is the service of sin , from all which the saints are freed by Christ , not ...
Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life and Death. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. Sorabji, R. (2011) 'Stoic reservation in wants and
expectations: a footnote on its logic', pp. 302–09 in B. Morison and K.
Ierodiakonou (eds), ...
Author: Ursula Coope
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198824831
Category: Philosophy
Page: 304
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The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves--they are self-determining, self-constituting, and self-knowing. Neoplatonist philosophers argue that such freedom is only possible for non-bodily things. The human soul is free insofar as it rises above bodily things and engages in intellection, but when it turns its desires to bodily things, it is drawn under the sway of fate and becomes enslaved. Ursula Coope discusses this notion of freedom and its relation to questions about responsibility. She explains the important role of notions of self-reflexivity in Neoplatonist accounts of both freedom and responsibility. In Part I, Coope sets out the puzzles Neoplatonist philosophers face about freedom and responsibility and explains how these puzzles arise from earlier discussions. Part II explores the metaphysical underpinnings of the Neoplatonist notion of freedom (concentrating especially on the views of Plotinus and Proclus). In what sense, if any, is the ultimate first principle of everything (the One) free? If everything else is under this ultimate first principle, how can anything other than the One be free? What is the connection between freedom and nonbodiliness? Finally, Coope considers in Part III questions about responsibility, arising from this perfectionist view of freedom. Why are human beings responsible for their behaviour, in a way that other animals are not? If we are enslaved when we act viciously, how can we be to blame for our vicious actions and choices?
One issue is that some of Heidegger's comments in his analysis of being-towards
-death suggest that it is fundamentally part of our existence that we cannot
wholeheartedly identify with any specific self-understanding. For instance, he
claims ...
Author: Hans Pedersen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781786612564
Category: Philosophy
Page: 190
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This book employs Heidegger’s work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger’s thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts. Hans Pedersen demonstrates that Heidegger’s thought can be fruitfully used to develop a plausible alternative understanding of agency that avoids the metaphysical commitments that give rise to the standard free-will debate. The first several chapters are devoted to working out an account of the ontological structure of human agency, specifically focusing on the Heideggerian understanding of the role of mental states, causal explanations, and deliberation in human agency, arguing that action need not be understood in terms of the causal efficacy of mental states. In the following chapters, building on the prior account of agency, Pedersen develops Heideggerian accounts of freedom and responsibility. Having shown that action need not be understood causally, the Heideggerian view thereby avoids the conflict between free will and determinism that gives rise to the problem of free will and the correlative problem of responsibility.
Nothing less than our full commitment and determined effort will bring to them the
strength that may mean the difference between their life and death . In the pursuit
of these large tasks we face many problems . Not the least of these lies in our ...
Natural Approaches to Freedom and Better Health Chris D. Meletis. age, the age
our trillions of cells are in terms of quality and function. Continually ... death” food
choices. How much of that power have you given to outside influences? Are you
...
Author: Chris D. Meletis
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 9780313358715
Category: Medical
Page: 200
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In this comprehensive book, a naturopath explains why allergies occur and what works—and doesn't—to alleviate them. Liberation from Allergies offers research on non-drug ways to control allergies, as well as ways in which naturopathic approaches can be combined with traditional medicine. It looks forward, discussing developments on the horizon, including current testing of vaccines for some food allergies.
