The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of this element of love or devotional bhakti in Krishnavite worship, and especially as it is expressed in the major Vaishnavite scriptures that deal with Krishna. [...]

Darbo problema. Daugelis moksleivių nesilaiko skaistumo, nes nežino ar nesupranta jo nesilaikymo pasekmių, o taip pat netiki laikymosi teikiama nauda brandai. Darbo tikslas. Atskleisti skaistumo dorybės sampratą ir nustatyti esamą vyresnių klasių moksleivių požiūrį į ją Kauno miesto Nemuno vidurinėje mokykloje. Darbo metodai. Šiame darbe naudosiu literatūros analizės ir empirinį kiekybinį – anketinės apklausos metodą. Magistrinis darbas susideda iš įvadinės dalies ir trijų pagrindinių dalių. Šio darbo pirmojoje dalyje nagrinėjamas Katalikų Bažnyčios mokymas apie lytiškumą. Išryškinta žiniasklaidos įtaką paauglių lytiškumo raiškai. Atskleistas šeimos, kaip svarbiausios moksleivių ugdytojos, reikšmingumas. Antrojoje dalyje nagrinėjama skaistumo dorybės samprata, žmogaus pašaukimas meilei ir skaistumo dorybės vaidmuo jame. Taip pat apžvelgiama lytinio susivaldymo svarba moksleivių brandai. Trečiojoje dalyje nagrinėjamas vyresnių klasių moksleivių požiūris į skaistumo dorybę. Kiekybiniame tyrime dalyvavo Kauno miesto Nemuno vidurinės mokyklos vienuoliktų ir dvyliktų klasių moksleiviai. Remiantis apklausos duomenimis gauti rezultatai apibendrinti. Išvados ir rekomendacijos pateikiamos šio darbo pabaigoje. Kelios svarbiausios: 1. Atliktas tyrimas parodė, kad yra skiriama per mažai dėmesio skaistumo ugdymui, nes dauguma moksleivių ne tik nesupranta, kas tai yra skaistumas, bet ir nežino, kokią naudą jiems jis teikia. 2. Moksleivių geri santykiai su tėvais ir reguliarus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The problem of the study. Many high school students do not maintain their virginity since they do not know or understand the outcome of the behaviour and do not believe in the benefit that virginity gives to their maturity. Aim of the study is to reveal the conception of virtue of virginity and to determine an existing attitude of high school students towards it in Kaunas Nemunas Secondary School. Study methodology. Literature analysis and empirical quantitative method of questionnaire survey were used in the work. The Master Paper consists of introductory part and three main parts. The first part of the paper analyzes the teaching of the Catholic Church on sexuality. The impact of mass media on the expression of adolescents’ sexuality is highlighted. The significance of family as the main educator of students is revealed. The second part investigates the conception of virtue of virginity, human vocation to love and the role of virginal virtue in it. Moreover, the importance of sexual self-restraint for the high school students’ maturity is reviewed. In the third part, high school students’ attitude to virtue of virginity is analyzed. Students of eleventh and twelfth forms at Kaunas Nemunas Secondary School participated in the quantitative study. The obtained results were summarized with reference to the survey data. Conclusions and recommendations are presented at the end of the paper. The major conclusions are as follows: 1. The undertaken study revealed that too... [to full text]

Šiuolaikiniame ir vis labiau skubančiame pasaulyje naujovės bei išradimai uţvaldo vis didesnę rinkos dalį. Mokslininkai, dizaineriai ir kitų specialybių ţmonės stengiasi kaip išmanydami palengvinti vartotojų ir tiekėjų rinką. Tik ar viskas, ką jie siūlo rinkai, yra sveika mūsų organizmui?Ar maistas, gėrimai, kosmetika, technologinės naujovės, vis labiau tobulėjanti farmacija ir kita, ką mes su mielu noru priimame, nėra mums nuodinga? Reikia atkreipti didesnį dėmesį į patį ţmogų. / The main issue analysed in this work is the harm done to a human body by the six factors: drugs, genetically modified organisms (GMO), air pollution, cosmetics, radiation and preservatives. Health is the most important human value and the majority of nowadays world solutions may reduce it faster than we think it could. Hereinafter these main factors crippling our health will be shortly discussed.

The following is an attempt to ground personal duty – duty which is both believed and felt by all agents. To do this, I look at two contrasting attempts. The first is a rationalist attempt, which tries to ground it in conceptual necessity, the second an empiricist one, which uses empirical fact as its basis. In particular, it uses contingent facts about the things which are agents (people, for example), and what makes them feel a sense of duty. I argue that, ultimately, it is this type of grounding of duty which can be successful. Throughout, I emphasize two crucial points. The first is the freedom of the individual; the second is that duty is not a "want" or "desire;" rather, it is quite often what one does against one's own wants or desires. I argue that a paradigmatic example of establishing duty is Harry Frankfurt's theory of autonomous love.

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In the present study, through a close reading of the Confessions , the author explores the concept of love in Saint Augustine as it pertains to the two possibilities of man, being towards the creation and being towards the Creator. He distinguishes two kinds of love corresponding to each one of these possibilities, love of the world (cupiditas) and love of God (caritas), and proceeds to analyze these loves. The main argument of the thesis is that these loves disclose the world to man in two opposed manners. The author argues that cupiditas seeks to find satisfaction in the creation and discloses it as an end in itself, whereas caritas loves the world for the sake of God and discloses it as a means to attaining God.

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This thesis considers how desire might be theorised in the twenty first century against the backdrop of New Zealand society, culture and film. Methodologically, this exploration is addressed with reference to Žižek’s return to a critique of ideology, whose conceptual basis is drawn from Marx, Althusser and Lacan, and which is significant in its analysis of contemporary desire as emanating from social conditions and constellations of power. Žižek’s challenge to call for a new Master is one that this thesis responds to enthusiastically. Such a response is posited from a location which intersects Lacanian psychoanalysis and sociological theories. The method this exploration employed focus groups and individual interviews from which talk of desire is constructed and critically explored. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted following a viewing of the New Zealand film, Heavenly Creatures, which enabled an exploration of how participants offer competing ideological locations which can reveal the hidden and not so hidden mechanisms regulating social relations and ambiguities. The participant profiles of the focus groups were designed around key themes relating to the film: fathers of teenage daughters; those working or heavily involved within the creative industries; young women aged between 18-25; and those who grew up in Christchurch during the 1950’s. Heavenly Creatures is a film interpretation of the actual murder of Christchurch resident Honora Rieper in 1954 by her teenage daughter and this daughter’s friend. In exploring both the themes of friendship and the figure of the mother, Heavenly Creatures deliberately conflates fantasy with ideology, so that it is from this intersection that possibilities of subjective desire are confronted. When addressing desire set against this particular film, participants confront deadlocks and misrecognitions, in particular the disintegration of those ideological conditions with which they are identifying. These include the limitations of modern capitalism, concerns about the ‘environment’, the pervasive engagement with cynicism, and frustrations with the inability to intimately and socially self-express. In order to understand and articulate desire various locations are posited in the guise of subjective truth. These points of fixation are structured by the conditions of dominant social and cultural ideologies, which the participant seeks to symbolise in returning to the ambiguity of the promise of the Master’s discourse as proposed by Lacan. This thesis critically explores three of the modalities through which Lacan’s construct of the Master is revealed in participants’ talk about desire: these are the precarious position of belief, the fragmented body, and love as an ideological act. It is argued that these modalities work within discourse in such a way as to offer participants ideological personification as well as a complexity of circumstances from which they can designate the objet a (the truth of one’s desire in psychoanalytic terms) insisted by the superego. In this way these three modalities are configured as enabling a speaking, or a saying, from a position of knowledge. This position in turn insists that the subject does not have to abandon the problem of desire but rather engage with knowledge attained through confronting and developing a literacy of desire. Desire read alongside the modalities of belief, the body and love posit a contemporary ontology in which the gaze commands an ethical and somewhat moral dimension from which the subject can construct a Master which not only seeks to recognise and speak about desire, but also manage it within daily life.