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Practicing Hedonism in the Face of Nihilism: Onfrayian Insights on Individualism and Autonomy

; transcendence is what negates the value of life. Pursuing the thoughts of philosophers and thinkers such as Nietzsche, Georges Palante, and Albert Camus, he argues for an atomistic philosophy that surmounts ... nihilistic pessimism. By analyzing Onfray’s hedonistic worldview, it becomes clear that he presents a philosophy that wrestles against nihilism and accepts the world as it is without succumbing to cynicism

Learning Chinese Vocabulary: Understanding Students

– United States Department of State. U.S. Department of State, https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/. Accessed 18 June 2023. Gu, Ming Dong. “Sinologism in Language Philosophy: A Critique of the ... Controversy over Chinese Language.” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 692-717. Liu, Yanmei 柳燕梅. “Shengci chongxian lü dui Ou-Mei xuesheng hanyu cihui xuexi de yingxiang” 生词重现率对欧美学生汉语词汇学

What’s in a name?

margins of the discipline, reduced to a few papers in second-rate journals, public conferences or folk philosophy, the Æ-Theory has certainly consolidated a school of physicists around it, publishing in ... Newton’s different, almost opposite, ethers to fill the emptiness that the mechanical philosophy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had brought with it, might also be highlights in the story. Yet

Decolonizing French: Afrophonics in Ken Bugul’s Aller et retour (2013)

cultural exchange and collaboration, transcending geographical and political boundaries. Nevertheless, the idea of Francophonie has faced criticism for its failure to truly acknowledge the impact of French ... former African colonies, marked by close political, economic, and military ties. Critics view it as perpetuating neocolonial practices, while proponents argue that it fosters mutual benefits and regional

The end of the particle era?

present day. During this period, its most elementary definition which dates back to atomism in ancient Greek philosophy, that of a spatially localizable discrete entity, has experienced different challenges ... in natural philosophy and science. Such challenges—wave–particle duality being probably the best example—in fact led the physical concept of particle to undergo a significant evolution across time

From concrete quarks to QCD: a personal perspective

away’. There was no place for aristocratic quarks in this philosophy, to which many—perhaps most—particle physicists then subscribed. 3 The birth of quarks At the end of his paper on quarks [ 44 ... quizzed him in 1961), but given his strong support for the bootstrap philosophy and the idea of nuclear democracy, he would presumably have quickly dismissed it. In any case, Serber’s memoirs continue: ‘A

George Gamow and Ralph Alpher: a review of their cosmological collaboration as mentor and protégé 1942–1955

philosophy and western science. He was thus taken aback when the Soviets unexpectedly appointed him their national representative to the seventh Solvay Physics Conference in Brussels, October 22–29, 1933. In ... the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy” [ 41 ]. I looked through the m.s. and graphs and mailed them to Tate special delivery. You will get the card from Tate acknowledging receipt

Cartografías afectivas para tiempos de crisis. Emocionalidad textual en la poesía española reciente

, evictions, etc.) to the socio-political sphere. I argue that, in such context, the poems studied possess the potentiality of arousing an empowering empathy and indignation in a historically-situated reader.

Native versus non-native speaker teachers’ perceptions about English varieties in designing/developing EFL Curriculum Development

consider real-world local reasons EFL learners entertain upon learning English, such as communicating locally with peers and natives in social interactions, business milieus, political discussions, or

Fostering Engagement with VoiceThread in Online Intermediate Spanish Language Classes

, political sciences, and business, with two of them declaring a minor in Spanish. Thirty-nine percent of the participants identified as male and 61% identified as female. For 61% of the participants English

Öz- Savunuculuk Hareketi: Sosyal Hizmet Perspektifiyle Değerlendirme

selfrepresentationin the field of disability. In brief, the study is aimed at both to inform of philosophy of self-advocacy and to contribute to this positive effect ... /index.html, ( Accessed 2016 May 1 ). 13. Tsuda E. Japanese culture and the philosophy of self-advocacy: The importance of interdependence in community living . Br J Learn Disabil , 2006 ; 34 , 151 - 156 . 14

The Construction of a Transatlantic Subject: Family and Nation in "Sola

Spanish Republic. Sola creates space in the nation for Catalan female writers who were previously excluded due to both their gender and their status as political exiles and cultural minorities. ... relationship with Madero and the uncertainty of the political situation in Spain forced her to go into exile. Like thousands of her Republican compatriots, in 1939 she crossed the border into France to escape

An interview with Roald Sagdeev: his story of plasma physics in Russia, 1956–1988

political and institutional challenges of this period. The conversation reflects Sagdeev’s unique and significant influence in modern plasma theory, Russian space exploration and his support of international

Hauntology and Epistemology in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage

purposely use the fantastic to explore and reimagine history, and so doing successfully convey memorable socio-political messages within the format of wellmade and thought-provoking fantasy movies. Both films ... political ways in which loss affectively disrupts and conditions being.... I place Ghostly Landscapes square in the centre of this kind of criticism, not only for its acute attention to the spectral as it

Was physics ever deterministic? The historical basis of determinism and the image of classical physics

. But the true lesson of ‘classical mechanics’ for philosophy should be exactly the opposite: the conceptual matters that initially strike us as simple and pellucid often unwind into hidden complexities ... laws of nature as approximations comes from the philosophy of mathematics. Concerns about the notion of infinity led him to the conviction that we cannot assume natural quantities to vary continuously

Indistinguishable elements in the origins of quantum statistics. The case of Fermi–Dirac statistics

installment in Die Naturwissenschaften [ 53 ], Sommerfeld described electrons with low quantum numbers as a “Volk ohne Raum,” a political metaphor for Germany’s situation in those years. He again underlined

Schottky’s forgotten step to the Ising model

: 349 - 352 19. Giulini , D. 2008 . Electron spin or classicaly non-decribable two-valuedness Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39 : 557 - 578 20. Goudsmit , S.A. and G. E. Uhlenbeck ... (Stockholm 1948 ) Exclusion Principle and Quantum Mechanics In: W. Pauli, Writings on Physics and Philosophy. ed. Charles P. Enz, Karl von Meyenn , 165 -181 Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 59. Reich, K

EUROGRAV 1986–1989: the first attempts for a European Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory

, these interactions were aimed at supporting the political strategies adopted to negotiate with the funding agencies, as we shall see. 2 For long-lived sources, one detector can be enough to pinpoint the ... and analysis philosophy from the start? 57 Particularly significant questions concerned the possible collaborative scenarios. What was the kind of framework which would work best for a European