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Tracking the Meaning of Life

A Philosophical Journey

By: Yuval Lurie

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Critical philosophical investigation of the question: What is the meaning of life? Discusses views prominent in analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism, drawing especially on the thought of Tolstoy, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Camus and exploring in depth the insights these thinkers offer regarding their own difficulties concerning the meaning of life"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826265316

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9780826265319

Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

By: Yuval Lurie

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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

By: Yuval Lurie

Provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein's discourse as an edifyng philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. Investigates the conceptual underpinnings of culture, revealing them as shared expressive spiritual forms of life.

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Rodopi

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904203517X

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Cultural Beings

Reading the Philosophers of Genesis

By: Yuval Lurie

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Cultural Beings

Reading the Philosophers of Genesis

By: Yuval Lurie

Human beings are a cultural species. This predicament enables them to take on many different cultural identities, all of which transcend the bounds of natural behavior of other species. To contemplate this predicament through philosophy is to reflect on such questions as, What makes cultural forms of life possible? What is encompassed in them? What lies at their core? What distinguishes them from natural forms of life? What brings them about, sustains, and causes them to change? Philosophical answers to these questions predate abstract ways of thinking, as they are sometimes embedded in ancient mythical and religious narratives. Such is the story told in the first three chapters of the book of Genesis in the Bible, revealing how human beings became the cultural beings that they are. This study suggests how that ancient and most celebrated story in the literature of the West may be read as harboring insightful philosophical observations on the cultural nature of human beings. It first focuses on the very concept of cultural forms of life, revealing its complicated conceptual links to natural forms of life. It then offers an interpretive framework for reading mythical, symbolic narratives. Using these ideas, it provides a philosophical reading of the Biblical narrative, disclosing it to harbor a metaphysically oriented conception of nature and two insightful philosophical overviews of the cultural nature of human beings. Both overviews endow human beings with an ability to manipulate nature, but in different ways: the first by subjugating parcels of nature to human will; the second by subjugating human beings themselves to a value-laden conception of things and ethical forms of life. Thus, human beings are portrayed as natural creatures possessed of a cultural nature that enables them to transform nature and recreate themselves through their unique cultural predicament.

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9004494952

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Tracking the Meaning of Life

A Philosophical Journey

By: Yuval Lurie

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A Philosophical Journey

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'National Education' Through Mutually Supportive Devices

A Case Study of Zionist Education

By: Yuval Dror

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'National Education' Through Mutually Supportive Devices

A Case Study of Zionist Education

By: Yuval Dror

This text fills the gaps in the research of nationality, regarding 'national education' in its double meaning: compulsory national education for all and creating opportunities for fostering national consciousness. The research deals with the Zionist period in (Eretz) Israel.

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Peter Lang

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3039109960

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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

By: Yuval Lurie

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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein’s discourse as an insightful philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. It offers an edifying perspective on the conceptual underpinnings of culture as a shared expressive spiritual form of life. The ideas investigated in it are highly relevant for discussions in philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, and cultural studies. The book embraces three studies: The Spirit of Jews, The Spirits of Culture and Civilization, and The Common Spirit of Human Beings. The first discusses Wittgenstein's remarks about Jews, focusing on their place within his philosophical thinking, self-reflection, and European discourse about culture and Jews. It shows how overcoming the anti-Semitic attitude implicit in them set off the major change in his philosophy. The second discusses Wittgenstein’s reflections on the “deterioration of culture” in the modern period, showing how they are related to his remarks about following rules. The third discusses Wittgenstein’s insights regarding the symbolic nature of myth, magic and religion. It suggests that modern human beings and those of ancient cultures possess a common expressive spiritual nature. This enables us to understand expressive practices in other cultures without interpretation. Nonetheless religious belief during the modern period is problematic.

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9401207925

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Tracking the Meaning of Life

Tracking the Meaning of Life

Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

Cultural Beings

Cultural Beings

Tracking the Meaning of Life

Tracking the Meaning of Life

'National Education' Through Mutually Supportive Devices

'National Education' Through Mutually Supportive Devices

Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit

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