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Anomie, in contemporary English, means a condition or malaise in individuals, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values. The word comes from Greek a-: "without", and nomos: "law". This term was used by the Greeks to define anything or anyone against the rules or a condition where the present laws were not applied (illegitimacy, unlawfulness). The contemporary English understanding of the word anomie differs from how the term was originally defined and used by Greeks, often becoming a ...

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Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used. Currently, in western society, it generally has an economic definition and meaning and typically refers to "wagering money or something of material value on something with an uncertain outcome in hope of winning additional money or material goods". Furthermore: the outcome of the wager is typically evident within a short period of time the primary intent of the bet is t ...

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Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev (Владимир Сергеевич Соловьёв) (1853 - 1900) was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century. Solovyev played a significant role in the Russian spiritual renaissance in the beginning of the 20th century. He had an effect on the religious philosophy of Nicolas Berdyaev, Sergey Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Semyon Frank, and also to poetry and theory ...

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Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明 in Shinjitai) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Kurosawa is perhaps Japan's best-known filmmaker. His films have greatly influenced a whole generation of filmmakers worldwide. Few filmmakers have had a career so long or so acclaimed. His first credited film (Sugata Sanshiro) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Legion d'Honneur and ...

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Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel written in 1866 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Along with War and Peace, this novel is among the best-known and most influential Russian novels of all time. The novel expresses Dostoevsky's religious and existentialist views, with a predominant focus on the theme of attaining salvation through suffering. Crime and Punishment - Plot. The novel portrays the haphazardly planned murder of a miser ...

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• Crime and Punishment - Christian existentialism
• Crime and Punishment - Characters
• Crime and Punishment - Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
• Crime and Punishment - Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladova
• Crime and Punishment - Other characters
• Crime and Punishment - Structure
• Crime and Punishment - Movie versions

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Constance Clara Garnett (née Black) (December 19, 1861 - December 17, 1946) was an English translator whose translations of nineteenth-century Russian classics first introduced them on a wide basis to the English public. Garnett is the first English translator of Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Born in Brighton, Garnett studied Latin and Greek at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she also learned Russian, and worked shortly as a school teacher. In 1893, shortly after a visit to Moscow and Petersburg during which she met Leo Tol ...

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA: [ˈsœːɔn ˈkʰiɔ̯g̊əˌg̊ɔːˀ]), May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855), a 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian, is generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. Philosophically, he bridged the gap that existed between Hegelian philosophy and what was to become Existentialism. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelian philosophy of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of h ...

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• Søren Kierkegaard - The Corsair Affair 1845–1846
• Søren Kierkegaard - The Second Authorship 1846–1853
• Søren Kierkegaard - Attack Upon Christendom 1854–1855
• Søren Kierkegaard - Indirect communication and pseudonymous authorship
• Søren Kierkegaard - The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard
• Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard on Schelling
• Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard on Schopenhauer
• Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard on Hegel
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• Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity
• Søren Kierkegaard - Pathos Passion
• Søren Kierkegaard - Criticisms of Kierkegaard
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The argument from morality is one of several arguments for the existence of God. These arguments fall under the larger category of philosophy of religion. Argument from morality - The argument. Moral law requires a moral lawgiver. There is a moral law. There must be a moral lawgiver. (from 1 and 2) This moral lawgiver is God. The two premises must, of course, be defended separately. However, usually this argument is employed against those (the great majority of ...

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Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928) is an American philosopher, famous for his first book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974). The book outlined Pirsig's ideas about the Good, in the form of a mostly-autobiographical tale of a man's motorcycle trip across North America with some friends and his son. The book remains a best seller to this day. In 1974 Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write its follow-up, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( ...

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Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. It is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice. Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art wi ...

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Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 - September 4, 1980) was a 20th-century Jewish German philosopher, scholar, and poet. He produced much original philosophy, most of which was on subjects related to what would now be called authenticity. He also wrote on, among other things, atheism, tragedy, and Shakespeare. His translations of Nietzsche and his anthology of existentialist works, such as Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, are also celebrated works of his. Kaufmann believed that critical analysis and acqu ...

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17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. << 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> 17 number - In mathematics. Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it comprises a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eise ...

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Tolstoy was one of the giants of 19th century Russian literature. His most famous works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and many shorter works, including the novellas The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Hadji Murad. His contemporaries paid him lofty tributes: Dostoevsky thought him the greatest of all living novelists while Gustave Flaubert gushed: "What an artist and what a psychologist!". Anton Chekhov, who often visited Tolstoy at his country estate, wrote: "When literature possesses a Tolstoy, it ...

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Roman Hispalis, in the province of Hispania Baetica, became ʾIšbīliyyah (Arabic أشبيليّة) under the Moors. Though Greeks and Romans repeated a founding myth connected with Heracles' visit to the Hesperides the historical site was occupied by the Tartessos in the 8th or 9th century BCE. Later it was a trading colony occupied by the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, who destroyed the city in 216 BCE. In 206 BCE, Scipio Africanus founded Italica nearby, to settle his wounded veterans, and be ...

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Argument from morality - Logical flaws. The most common attack on the logic of this argument is by the conclusion (4), which is an assumption. Objections point out that there is no reason to assume that God is the moral lawgiver; or that if he exists, he should be the only moral lawmaker. Such an assumption requires knowledge of the existence of God (which is what the argument is trying to pr ...

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Crime and Punishment - Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, variously called Rodya and Rodka, is the protagonist from whose perspective the story is primarily told. The reader is told that he was a student, now fallen out, who is living in abject poverty in a top-floor flat in the slums of Saint Petersburg. Despite the name of the novel it does not deal with his crime and its formal punishment but with Raskolnikov's internal struggle and failing justification of his actions. The murder is ...

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Crime and Punishment, Crime and Punishment - Plot, Crime and Punishment - Analysis, Crime and Punishment - Themes, Crime and Punishment - Salvation through suffering, Crime and Punishment - Christian existentialism, Crime and Punishment - Characters, Crime and Punishment - Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment - Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladova, Crime and Punishment - Other characters, Crime and Punishment - Structure, Crime and Punishment - Movie versions

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Tolstoy was one of the giants of 19th century Russian literature. His most famous works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and many shorter works, including the novellas The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Hadji Murad. His contemporaries paid him lofty tributes: Dostoevsky thought him the greatest of all living novelists while Gustave Flaubert gushed: "What an artist and what a psychologist!". Later critics and novelists continue to bear testaments to his art: Virginia Woolf went on to declare him "great ...

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Shestov was born Lev Issakovich Schwarzmann in Kiev into a Jewish family. He obtained an education at various places, due to fractious clashes with authority. He went on to study law and mathematics at the Moscow State University but after a clash with the Inspector of Students he was told to return to Kiev, wherein he completed his studies there. Shestov's dissertation prevented him from becoming a doctor of law as it was dismissed as being too revolutionary. In 1898 he entered a circle of prominent of Russian intellectuals and artis ...

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Lev Shestov, Lev Shestov - Life, Lev Shestov - Philosophy, Lev Shestov - The Philosophy of Despair, Lev Shestov - Penultimate Words, Lev Shestov - Influence, Lev Shestov - Main Works

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The nineteenth century French pioneer sociologist Émile Durkheim used this word in his book outlining the causes of suicide, to describe a condition or malaise in individuals, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values, and an associated feeling of alienation and purposelessness. Anomie is remarkably common when the surrounding society has undergone significant changes in economic fortunes, whether for good or for worse, and more generally when there is a significant discrepancy between the ideological theories and valu ...

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Anomie, Anomie - Anomie as individual disorder, Anomie - Anomie as social disorder, Anomie - Anomie in literature and film

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The nucleus of the band first met at the private boys school Caulfield Grammar School (in suburban Melbourne) in the early seventies. A rock group was formed in 1973 with Nick Cave (vocals), Mick Harvey (guitar), and Phill Calvert (drums), with other students on guitar, bass and saxophone. Most were also members of the school choir. The band played under various names at parties and school functions with a mixed pre-punk repertoire of Lou Reed, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Al ...

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