Essays about: "Existential loneliness"

Found 3 essays containing the words Existential loneliness.

1. 1. Existential Loneliness : A Jaspersian analysis with practical application to human-robot interaction

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

   Author : Nichan Piispanen; [2022]
   Keywords : Karl Jaspers; existential loneliness; existential communication; the self; existence; social robots; artificial intelligence;

   Abstract : In this thesis, I will discuss the conceptualization of existential loneliness in the early writings of the German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), especially his lecture “Einsamkeit” (1915/1916) and Philosophie (1932). I will try to elucidate the dynamics and processes involved in existential loneliness and its overcoming in existential communication. READ MORE

3. 2. Elderly people's existential loneliness experience throughout their life in Sweden and its correlation to emotional (subjective) well-being

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

   Author : Elin Petersen; Leyla Gasimova; [2019]
   Keywords : Existential loneliness; emotional well-being; elderly; depression; social support; confidant;

   Abstract : Existential  loneliness  is  a  specific kind  of  loneliness,  associated  with decreased emotional  well-being.Existential loneliness differs from physical aloneness and is connected to negative feelings and  moods;  in  contrast,alonenesscan  be  experienced  as  something  positive  and  emotionallycharging. READ MORE

4. 3. Back To and Beyond Socrates : An Essay on the Rise and Rhetoric of Existential Pedagogy

   University essay from Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

   Author : Alexander Sohlman; [2008]
   Keywords : Existential; Pedagogy; Rhetoric; Johann Georg Hamann 1730-1788 ; Friedrich Schlegel 1772-1829 ; Sören Kierkegaard 1813-1855 ;

   Abstract : This essay concerns itself with the historical background to what it refers to as existential pedagogy, which designates the way in which existential literature presumably seeks to affect the reader so that he experiences his existence as isolated, and how this is done through the employment of harsh and uncompromising language and rhetorical devices. The assumption underlying this project is that there is a pedagogical purpose to the existential manner of de-livery, and this essay traces this purpose back to how in the 18th century certain thinkers – Johann Georg Hamann and Friedrich Schlegel – came to look back at Socrates rhetorical en-deavour in order to perfect their own desire to place the question of ‘meaning’, ‘knowledge’ or ‘truth’ into the hands of the receiving individual – the reader of a text or the student of a teacher. READ MORE