Essays about: "transcendental"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 24 essays containing the word transcendental.

  1. 11. The Quest for a Transcendental Experience: A Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Matz Andersson; [2016]
    Keywords : English; Deconstruction; Into the Wild; Krakauer; Derrida; American Wilderness;

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  3. 12. Healing, knowledge and transcendental experiences of unity : Motivations and experiences of shamanism and entheogens in the Andes.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Rasmus Lindahl; [2016]
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    Abstract : This study examines motivations and experiences of shamanism and entheogens in the Andesfrom the perspective of the participants of entheogenic ceremonies. The results suggest thatemotional healing, pursuit of knowledge, need for connection and transcendence are prevalentmotivators of the participants. READ MORE

  4. 13. Western and Indian theories of consciousness confronted A comparative overview of continental and analytic philosophy with Advaita Vedanta and Madhyamaka Buddhism

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Michele Cossellu; [2014-01-22]
    Keywords : consciousness; nonduality; phenomenology; Advaita Vedanta; Madhyamaka Buddhism; epistemology;

    Abstract : The burgeoning field of cognitive studies in the West is motivated by a renewed interest in conscious experience, which arose in the postmodern zeitgeist in response to the positivist, scientific ideal of objectivity. This work presents a historical overview of Western philosophy from its dawn, focusing on the evolution of key concepts in metaphysics, ontology and epistemology, to arrive at the examination of modern theories on consciousness. READ MORE

  5. 14. In the Shadow of Illusion : Kant and Fink on the problem of philosophical reflection

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Nicholas Lawrence; [2014]
    Keywords : Immanuel Kant; Eugen Fink; reflection; illusion; transcendental;

    Abstract : With the help of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason this paper aims to investigate the very possibility of philosophical reflection. Starting from a reading of two Eugen Fink texts, a phenomenologically discovered question is posed and a critical response attempted. READ MORE

  6. 15. Historik and Hermeneutics : The Heidelberg Lectures

    University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Alexander Torell; [2014]
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    Abstract : In Heidelberg 1985 the historian Reinhart Koselleck gave a lecture with the title “Hermeneutik und Historik”to the occasion of the birthday of the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. In response to this Gadamer answered with a lecture entitled Historik und Sprache – eine Antwort”. READ MORE