The Myth of Sisyphus

Hobson, Aidan

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“…Rather than being the uncertainties of an unexplored vista beyond it, they determine and sustain the existence of religious transcendence. God's existence, Albert Camus suggested, could be both asserted by debilitated consciousness in the irrational climate and abstract reason with the recourse to the divine [6]. "Fear," which is more than the dread of death that persuades one into the spiritual leap, encapsulates what "crushes" and "impoverishes" humans: "the absurd" forcedly deified as "God" when everlasting nothingness is made obvious in an unintelligible cosmos [6].…”

Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

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“…God's existence, Albert Camus suggested, could be both asserted by debilitated consciousness in the irrational climate and abstract reason with the recourse to the divine [6]. "Fear," which is more than the dread of death that persuades one into the spiritual leap, encapsulates what "crushes" and "impoverishes" humans: "the absurd" forcedly deified as "God" when everlasting nothingness is made obvious in an unintelligible cosmos [6]. "Hope," prior to Christian espérance, might be categorized here as reason adapted to "the eternal climate", the neo-Platonic nous transformed later into the biblical God [6].…”

Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"Fear," which is more than the dread of death that persuades one into the spiritual leap, encapsulates what "crushes" and "impoverishes" humans: "the absurd" forcedly deified as "God" when everlasting nothingness is made obvious in an unintelligible cosmos [6]. "Hope," prior to Christian espérance, might be categorized here as reason adapted to "the eternal climate", the neo-Platonic nous transformed later into the biblical God [6]. The sanguine confidence in transcendental absolutes ("Hope) and the horrified recoil at the void ("Fear") would constitute the same leap of faith.…”

Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

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“…The sanguine confidence in transcendental absolutes ("Hope) and the horrified recoil at the void ("Fear") would constitute the same leap of faith. The two are by no means uncontrollable, super-human agents-by "twin Destinies" Shelley rather implied the ineluctability for them to originate the illusion-but are instead limited to the universe of human understanding and experience, testifying to the truism that "all thought is anthropomorphic" [6]. These two minuscule anthropomorphic entities weave their gossamer chimaeras-with human projections of "unreal shapes"-to cover the appalling abyss, the only possibility beyond the human universe.…”

Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The failure of "things to love" signifies the moment when the love for God and immortality becomes impossible [1]. Discovering nothing to approve denotes the collapse of established moral foundations and a priori justifiable "code of ethics" without any transcendent order [6]. The loss of truth-originally a constellation of anthropomorphic things-occurs when the universe is divested of "the illusory meaning with which [humans] had clothed [it]" [6].…”

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Unveiling the Abyss: The Prefiguration of Existential Philosophy in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Sonnet “Lift not the Painted Veil”

Kun-yuan¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2022)

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The poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley has risen from the nadir of its literary reputation and achieved increasing scholarly and critical acclaim since the latter half of the past century as a remarkable existence of world literature for its artistic, philosophical, cultural, social, and political relevance. However, while multitudinous scholars have dedicated themselves to unearthing the complexities of his works, Shelley's "Lift not the Painted Veil" remains a sonnet unfathomed by the cohort of researchers within the context of the intellectual discourse. This paper, based on the method of textual analysis, would propose against the traditional vein of scholarly analyses that the sonnet anticipates philosophies of existence by pinpointing its metaphysical meaning and significance. The conclusion is reached that this poem, in a reflection distinguished from the materialist or secular humanist culture, reveals the condition of individual existence-the crisis of Nietzschean nihilism-after the abolition of God's transcendental order, affirming its advent yet ending in negativity with nothing established as to how to cope with the crisis. Although the existentialist is antagonistic to the temper of the Romantic other-worldly dreamer, the fact that the preoccupation with the void pervades the work of such a visionary poet as Shelley implicates that the dichotomy between two apposed ideologies would be obliterated when confronted with the perennial problem of meaninglessness in existence.

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Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

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Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Decoding "Lift Not the Painted Veil" From The Existential Po...mentioning

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Unveiling the Abyss: The Prefiguration of Existential Philosophy in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Sonnet “Lift not the Painted Veil”

Kun-yuan¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2022)

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Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure association factors with suicide: An instrument for a populational survey

Rodrigues

Filho²,

Rodrı́gues³

et al. 2023

Health Science Reports

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Background and Aims: Our goal was to develop an online questionnaire to survey the prevalence of suicidal behavior. Methods:We developed a questionnaire with 51 variables and proceeded with validations. Validations were performed using face validity, content validity, and construct validity. Reliability was performed by test−rest.Results: The face validity was 1.0 and the content validity was 0.91. The exploratory factor analysis got Kaiser−Meyer−Olkin = 0.86 and extracted one principal factor.The confirmatory factor analysis demonstrates root mean square error of approximation = 0.000 and comparative fit index = 1.000. The test−retest had an intraclass correlated coefficient of 0.98. Conclusion:The adequate development questionnaire was validated, and we have an instrument to survey suicide behaviors during the pandemic time.Patient or Public Contribution: The general population of Marília voluntarily responded to the questionnaire, as well as patients from the principal investigator's office.

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Social Death and Rastafari Reason

Shilliam

2023

Du Bois Rev.

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Orlando Patterson’s concept of “social death” has yet to receive a critical analysis congruent to the ethos of Black Studies, which impels us to contextualize struggles over knowledge formation as part of struggles for, against, and over Black community. In this article, I situate the early Patterson not only within an imperial academy but also within its contested Black spaces of post-emancipation independence. I demonstrate how Patterson’s intellectual path was shaped by his interactions with the Rastafari movement around the cusp of Jamaica’s independence. But I also argue that in his evaluation of the movement Patterson denuded Rastafari of reason. Examining the same concerns of Patterson but through Rastafari reasoning demonstrates that his concept of “social death” might be problematic in some important ways to the purposes of Black Studies.

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The Myth of Sisyphus

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Unveiling the Abyss: The Prefiguration of Existential Philosophy in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Sonnet “Lift not the Painted Veil”

Unveiling the Abyss: The Prefiguration of Existential Philosophy in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Sonnet “Lift not the Painted Veil”

Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure association factors with suicide: An instrument for a populational survey

Social Death and Rastafari Reason

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