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May experienced a difficult childhood, with his parents divorcing and his sister suffering a mental breakdown. His educational odyssey took him to Michigan State University and Oberlin College for a bachelor's degree, teaching for a time in Greece, to Union Theological Seminary for a BD in 1938, and finally to Columbia University for a PhD in clinical psychology in 1949. He spent the closing years of his life in Tiburon on the San Francisco ...

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May was influenced by American humanism, and interested in reconciling existential psychology with other approaches, especially Freud’s. May uses some traditional existential terms in a slightly different fashion than others, and he invents new words for traditional existentialist concepts. Destiny, for example, could be "thrownness" combined with "fallenness"— the part of our lives that is determined for us, for the purpose of creating our lives. He also used the word "courage" to signify authenticity i ...

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Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs. Abraham Maslow - Biography. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents were uneducated, but they insisted that he study law. At first, Abraham acceded to their wishes and enrolled in the City College of New York. However, after three semesters, he transferred to Cornell then back to CCNY.Af ... Including:

• Abraham Maslow - Biography
• Abraham Maslow - Hierarchy of Human Needs
• Abraham Maslow - Bibliography
• Abraham Maslow - Internal links
• Abraham Maslow - External links
• Abraham Maslow - Books

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Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. (born January 31, 1949, Oklahoma City, USA) is an American and Buddhist philosopher and psychological theorist. His work focuses mainly on creating an "integral theory of consciousness" in which the insights of mysticism, postmodernism, science and systems theory come together to form a coherent picture of the Kosmos. In Kosmic Consciousness, Wilber states that he considers himself a storyteller and a mapmaker; his stories address universal questions and his m ... Including:

• Ken Wilber - Biography
• Ken Wilber - Education
• Ken Wilber - Early career
• Ken Wilber - Recent works
• Ken Wilber - Ideas
• Ken Wilber - The neo-perennial philosophy
• Ken Wilber - Holons and the twenty tenets
• Ken Wilber - AQAL
• Ken Wilber - The two truths doctrine
• Ken Wilber - The pre/trans fallacy
• Ken Wilber - Wilber on science
• Ken Wilber - New work
• Ken Wilber - Influences on Wilber
• Ken Wilber - Wilber's influence
• Ken Wilber - Wilber's five phases
• Ken Wilber - Critiques
• Ken Wilber - Bibliography
• Ken Wilber - Works by Wilber
• Ken Wilber - Books about Wilber

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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 ... Including:

• Søren Kierkegaard - Life
• Søren Kierkegaard - Early years 1813–1841
• Søren Kierkegaard - Regine Olsen 1837–1841
• Søren Kierkegaard - The First Authorship 1841–1846
• 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
• Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard and Christendom
• Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard in contemporary ethical theory
• Søren Kierkegaard - Important elements of Kierkegaard's philosophy
• Søren Kierkegaard - Alienation
• Søren Kierkegaard - Abstraction
• Søren Kierkegaard - Death
• Søren Kierkegaard - Dread or anxiety
• Søren Kierkegaard - Despair
• Søren Kierkegaard - The individual
• Søren Kierkegaard - Spheres of existence
• Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity
• Søren Kierkegaard - Pathos Passion
• Søren Kierkegaard - Criticisms of Kierkegaard
• Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard's influence
• Søren Kierkegaard - Selected bibliography
• Søren Kierkegaard - Notes

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents were uneducated, but they insisted that he study law. At first, Abraham acceded to their wishes and enrolled in the City College of New York. However, after three semesters he transferred to Cornell, then back to CCNY. After he married, he moved to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin from which he received his B.A. (1930), his M.A. (1931), and his Ph.D. (1934) in psychology. While in Wisconsin, Maslow studied with Harr ...

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As mentioned in the biography, during the final years of his life, Kierkegaard took up a sustained attack on all of Christendom, Christanity as a political entity. In the 19th century, most Danes who were citizens of Denmark were necessarily members of the Danish State Church. In 2002 even, the Church of Denmark reports 84.3% of Danes are members of the state church [4]. Kierkegaard felt this state-church union was unacceptable and perverted the true ...

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Ken Wilber - Education. Ken Wilber was born on January 31, 1949 in Oklahoma City, OK. His father was in the Air Force and Wilber's family later lived in, Bermuda, El Paso, Texas, Idaho, and Great Falls, Montana where he began high school. For his senior year they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska where he was valedictorian of his high school class. He remembers the frequent moves as traumatic, though he was successful in athletics and was several times elected student body or class president. "People think I am anti-soc ...

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"Hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is." "If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself." "Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. " "Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. " "Depression is the inability to construct a future. " "Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own dev ...

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