This research was stimulated by pastoral concerns regarding the high rate of suicide in the South African Hindu community. On the one hand it was found that traumatized individuals contemplating suicide were woefully ill-equipped with helpful religious guidelines and on the other it is known that the primary and authoritative scriptures of Hinduism possess a wealth of information that can promote healing. This work uses the Taittiriya Upanishad (3.10.5) to address this challenge. The early Vedic writings are not systematized nor are they fully explicable except through commentaries. This research surveys the early Vedic and Upanisadic Writings in order to show the literary, social and philosophical conditions under which the texts were produced. The Taittiriya Upanisad is the culminating part of several strands of thought that emerged from the earlier Taittiriya School. In order to interpret the text of this Upanisad it was necessary to link its key concepts with other Upanisads of this period. Further interpretations emerged from later Upanisads. These texts were viewed in the light of several commentators - Shaukara (medieval period), and Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Radhakrishuan of the Neo-Vedanta movements. In the early Vedic period the soul is a metaphysical entity. Upon death it is judged and in accordance with its good or bad actions, heavenly rewards or the punishments of hell are meted out to it. Heaven and hell are final eschatological goals for the soul in the Vedic period. In the later Vedic or Upanisadic period it is found that heaven and hell are temporary eschatological goals. The ultimate goal becomes Liberation which implies the cessation of duality and the realization of non-duality. Correspondingly the Taittiriya Upauisad defines the soul in a manner in which its components have the potential to achieve this later goal. Here the soul is a formulation of five sheaths: body, vital energy, mind, intellect and bliss with an immortal consciousness as its focus. Functioning under the effects of ignorance each sheath binds the soul to suffering and rebiiths either on earth or on other planes (heaven or hell). However, each sheath also possesses an intrinsic capacity to liberate the soul from suffering. Tills work explores these negative and positive capabilities of the sheaths and points out the path by which the soul's divine potential may be realized. The ultimate healing or liberation occurs when the 'focus-consciousness' of the soul is intuitively realized. This consciousness is one with the universal consciousness. This achievement produces the 'liberated soul' who experiences ecstasy at this knowledge of oneness. This research also points out that the Neo-Vedanta movements, unlike their medieval counterparts, have a life-affirming and positive social attitude that seeks to draw from ancient texts for the purposes of healing and social upliftment.

In this dissertation, I argue for the philosophical consistency of Aquinas’ hybrid view of human souls - that is, the idea that human souls, and only human souls, are at once substantial forms and subsistent things. I contend that the best way to understand the ontological status of human souls according to Aquinas is by means of the concept of ‘subsistent parts’. Since Aquinas characterizes souls as parts of substances, I propose a mereological analysis of the different types of part in Aquinas, and I conclude that souls should be seen as metaphysical parts of substances. An influential contemporary view holds that Aquinas’ doctrine is inconsistent on the grounds that nothing could be an abstract (form) and a concrete (subsistent) at the same time. I respond to this view by denying the widespread notion that substantial forms are purely abstract entities. I hold that the best way to make sense of Aquinas’ twofold approach to human souls is by saying that substantial forms possess an element of concreteness which is accounted for by the fundamental relationship between form and being. Finally, I address the question of taxonomy: how can we classify Aquinas’ view of the soul-body relation in light of the concepts that are currently used in philosophy of mind. I argue that the notion of a subsistent part entails the concept of ‘part-dualism’, which I present as standing midway between substance-dualism and nonreductive materialism, and also as being ontologically richer than property-dualism. I conclude this dissertation with a refutation of the idea championed by some prominent scholars that the existence of the soul is sufficient for the existence of the person.

The purpose of this study was to capture, describe and interpret an adult education experience that moves learners in an emotional, soulful and spiritual way. Profound and deep learning was revealed through comments such as: This has been one of the most profound experiences of my life; and, Those five days were pure magic. These comments are the result of experiences at Northern Exposure to Leadership (NEL), which is a continuing, adult learning experience for professional librarians. The Institute uses senior librarians to serve as mentors and facilitators, and is a five-day, residential Institute held every eighteen months at Emerald Lake Lodge, near Field, British Columbia, Canada. This research is explored within an adult education framework, which is steeped in a rich tradition of creating caring learning communities that honour the histories of learners, listen to their individual voices, and allow for alternative ways of learning and knowing. This analysis and interpretation is set within a broader social context of individual, global and cosmic alienation, and the demise and loss of soul evident in a manufactured, technical and commodified world. The research indicates that soul in education is nurtured through: relationships with mentors, peers and self; the creation of a professional, caring community; ceremony, symbol and the sacred; risk; struggle and disclosure; ethics; creativity and imagination; physical environment; residential factors of seclusion and shared accommodations; and the use of a variety of teaching methods with a concentration on experiential learning. The confluence of these factors affects careers and lives of learners on a long-term basis. Ultimately, it is asserted that attention to soul in education elicits an emotional, spiritual and physical response that is affirming for all involved. Soulful approaches breathe life into education and infuse learners with energy, vitality and enthusiasm, and, in the case of NEL, is creating a collegial community with librarianship. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Wagner Wey Moreira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T15:00:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martins_LeonardoTavares_M.pdf: 4596322 bytes, checksum: 027b178335469e4e8ab91b2a8f6154b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: No mundo contemporâneo, o corpo tem sido tratado sob diferentes perspectivas, que vão desde a redução da totalidade corporal, até a percepção de que o conceito de corpo é complexo e sistêmico. O discurso da corporeidade parece ostentar a preocupação por ver o corpo de forma a superar uma visão reducionista de corpo. Assim, podemos identificar no discurso da corporeidade, um componente que faz entender o corpo para além dos limites impostos pelo mecanicismo, pelas instituições, pela lei da causa e efeito. Este componente nos permite compreender que a redução da distância entre matéria e espírito é aproximar-se do Todo Corporal. Ao corpo, é dada a possibilidade de criar, de sonhar, de relacionar-se com o Eterno e Infinito. Corpo e Sagrado não estão, desta forma, distantes. A partir destas reflexões, utilizamos o referencial teórico da Análise de Discurso para identificar as aproximações entre o discurso da corporeidade e o significado da busca pelo sagrado. A conclusão deste trabalho propõe que, para a compreensão do Todo Corporal, é necessário superar a redução do corpo matéria, aceitando que a abertura à transcendência pode remeter, também, a um retomo ao sagrado / Abstract: In the contemporary world, the body has been approached from different perspectives, ranging from the reduction ofthe corporal totality, to the perception that the body concept is complex and systemic. Speech on the body seems to show the concern with seeing the body in a way to overcome a reductionist vision of it. Thus, one can identify in the speech on the body, a component that takes the understanding of the body beyond the limits imposed by the mechanicism, by the institutions and by the law of cause and effect. This component allows us to understand that reducing the distance between matter and spirit is approaching the Body as a Whole. The body gets the possibility of creating, of dreaming, of getting linked with the Eternal and the Infinite. The Body and the Sacred are not, thus, distant. Departing from these reflections, we used the referencial of the Analysis of Speeeh theory to identify the links between the speeeh on the body and the meaning of the seareh for the saered. As a eonclusion, this paper proposes that, for the understanding of the Body as a Whole, it is necessary to overeome the reduction of the body to matter, aeeepting that the opening to the transeendent ean send, too, to a retum to the saered. / Mestrado / Pedagogia do Movimento / Mestre em Educação Física

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 jose_josivan_bezerra_sales.pdf: 953664 bytes, checksum: eb63ef51fa4a41b743fc9d3fb9b06f88 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-15 / This study aimed to perform a qualitative bibliographic research that probes Freud‟s analogy about his Pulsional Theory and the Eros of Plato Theory. For that, we choose the topic of antagonistic dualism as a similarity factor after we had observed several themes which were studied by other authors. In the first chapter we analyzed how this antagonistic dualism was shown in the theories of three original philosophers, Thales, Anaximader and Anaximenes. After, we analyzed the same topic in relation to Heraclitus‟s and Empedocles‟ theories and we studied the antagonistic dualism conceptions of soul and Eros in the compositions of Phaedo, Symposium, The Republic and Phaedrus from Plato. In the second chapter we studied present the epistemological context of the urge concept. From this point we studied Freud‟s composition and its antagonistic dualism between self-preservation and sexual drives in the First Drive Theory. We then went through the narcissistic libido and studied this opposition between life and death urges in the Second Drive Theory. In the third chapter we first started to compare the antagonistic dualism in Plato‟s and after in Freud‟s modus operandi. By trying to explain the man under a rational perspective, these philosophers couldn‟t had left the contradictory of myth and metaphysics in their theories. We then started studying the approximation made by different authors in order to understand the similarities and dissimilarities in the theory of Eros and the Libido. We concluded that the urge dualism is far from being contradictory and is a competitor and confluent in the sense of they both help each other in its own opposition. This fact allowed us to get close to three authors who point to this type of opposition: Garcia-Roza, André Green and Ivan Corrêa. So that our study is far from presenting a conclusion and it will remain open to reinforce in this opposition that generates life. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar uma pesquisa qualitativa de natureza bibliográfica que aprofundasse a analogia feita por Freud sobre sua Teoria Pulsional e a Teoria sobre Eros de Platão. Para isso escolhemos o tema do dualismo antagônico como elemento de semelhança, depois de ter observado as várias aproximações que outros autores já haviam estudado. Num primeiro capítulo, analisamos como se apresentava este dualismo antagônico nas teorias dos três filósofos originários, a saber, Tales, Anaximandro e Anaxímenes, depois analisamos o mesmo tema nas teorias de Heráclito e Empédocles, e por fim, estudamos as obras Fédon, Banquete, República e Fedro, de Platão, para encontrar nelas o dualismo antagônico nas suas concepções de alma e de Eros. Num segundo capítulo, apresentamos o contexto epistemológico do conceito de pulsão, para a partir dele estudarmos na obra de Freud o dualismo antagônico entre pulsões de autoconservação e pulsões sexuais na Primeira Teoria das Pulsões, passarmos pela libido narcísica, e estudarmos esta oposição entre as pulsões de vida e pulsão de morte, na Segunda Teoria das Pulsões. No terceiro capítulo passamos a comparar o elemento escolhido dualismo antagônico encontrando-o primeiro no modus operandi de Platão e de Freud, que esforçando-se por explicar o homem de modo racional, não puderam deixar de acolher nas suas teorias o contraditório do mito e da metafísica. Passamos a estudar as aproximações feitas por diversos autores para, enfim, estudar as semelhanças e dessemelhanças na teoria do Eros e da Libido, e acabamos concluindo que o dualismo das pulsões longe de ser contraditório é concorrente e confluente, no sentido de ambos se ajudarem mutuamente na sua própria oposição. Isto nos permitiu aproximar-nos de três autores que indicam este tipo de oposição: Garcia-Roza, André Green e Ivan Corrêa. No entanto, o nosso estudo longe de apresentar uma conclusão fica aberto para aprofundar este modo de oposição que gera vida.

Title: Gesture and physical gesture Summary: "Everything is connected with everything" on the basis of this sentence in the thesis of human gestures seeking connection with the outside world. Master's thesis in the first part highlights the importance of sensory perception, as one of the major sensitive sensor that uses our surroundings, by extension, our world is to communicate with us. In addition, point out the intellectual transformation of sensory perceptions, as the second phase of human perception. I thought the transformation of the image formation of a subjective reality seen and then selecting the appropriate medium to share with other people. The work and the choice of media is used for our gesture, whether it is a gesture in the position, time, space or matter. Teaching with artwork based on this concept. Keywords: World, soul, think, culture, gesture, picture

This paper studies the perception of the Christian body during the second and third centuries CE. It engages with this question with the aid of early Christian literature from this time period, additionally containing a particular focus on how the Pauline theology of the body influenced later Christian bodily conceptions. By subjecting these works to a close reading and with the aid of an intertextual theory, this thesis attempts to ascertain whether this early Christian perception of the body was fractured in nature, and whether aspects of this division – if evident – can be derived from and ascribed to a Pauline influence. This thesis argues that corporeality was a particularly complex component within the early Christian faith, the fractured nature of which could be derived from the contrasting influences of prior Graeco-Roman and Jewish theologies. / Den här uppsatsen studerar den kristna uppfattningen av kroppen under 100- och 200-talet e.v.t. Den behandlar denna fråga med hjälp av tidig kristen litteratur från denna tidsperiod, och inbegriper utöver detta även ett särskilt fokus på hur den Paulinska teologin om kroppen påverkade senare kristna uppfattningar av det kroppsliga. Genom att utsätta dessa verk för en närläsning och med hjälp av en intertextuell teori  så försöker den här uppsatsen därmed att avgöra om denna tidiga kristna uppfattning av kroppen var motsägelsefull i sin natur, och huruvida aspekter av denna splittring – om synlig – kan härstamma från eller tillskrivas Paulinsk influens. Den här uppsatsen argumenterar för att kroppslighet var en särskilt komplex komponent inom den tidiga kristna tron, vars splittrade natur kan härstamma från de kontrasterande influenserna av tidigare grekisk-romerska och judiska teologier.

This work attempts to outline concepts associated with body in the Old Norse literature. As the word for the body (líkamr) as well as the term for an incorporeal soul (sál) do not occur in the Old Norse literature until the translated Christian works and cannot therefore be used as markers, two areas closely connected with the concept of body have been chosen for the research: shifting of shape (hamr) and somatic expressions of emotions. In the first area, i.e. phenomena associated with shape-shifting, contexts of all (113) occurrences of radix ham- in the Old Norse literature are analysed in order to describe the semantical field of this root. Within the themes that have appeared in the material (i.e. shape-shifting related to flying, battle frenzy and magic), occurrences are ordered on an axis from those where the form (hamr) is considered to be holistic to those where just the form of body or soul is described. In this context, it is important to mention the proximity of man and animal in the Germanic environment, as shape-shifting is often related to an animal and thus points to the limits of human identity. In the second area, i.e. somatic expressions of emotions, we can also find cases where the mental and the physical area intersect and the boundaries between diseases and emotions are not...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the problem of soul in Plato's Timaeus while paying due respect to its close connection with the topics of cosmology and cosmogony. The inquiry proceeds from the highest level of the cosmos itself to the lowest level of the souls of mortal beings. In the first chapter, an important question, whether the cosmos singularly came into being or not is being examined. In this context, two traditional approaches are distinguished and it is argued that a proper answer to this question has to contain some elements of them both. The second chapter examines the nature of Plato's maker of this world, the demiurge. It is argued that he is a primordial deity who should not be identified with any aspect of the created cosmos or the intelligible being and who not only creates the bodily world and its soul but serves as a sort of paradigm for the soul in respect to its capacities as well. The topics of soul and cosmos blend equally in the third chapter which is devoted to the world-soul. It concentrates on three main topics which are relevant also for the souls occupying a lower position in the hierarchy. These are the blending of the soul that explains its basic properties, the structuring of the soul and attributing it a particular motion and finally the problem of cognition...

In this hermeneutic and autoethnographic study I explore and analyze two different music projects, and the process of working with them at the same time. The purpose of this is to find practical, psychological, and artistic insights.The results ascertain that tech-death and neo-soul are linked together by jazz and early twentieth century classical music, both culturally and music-theoretic. Further conclusions illuminated my own constructed role in music production and defined similarities in workflow in terms of both genres.