The purpose of this study is to investigate the pedagogic implications of Being in dramatic and poetic works. Chapter 1 shows the writer's concern that Being, separated from being, is forgotten in a scientific-technological education, Dramatic and poetic studies are in danger of being unfolded in the bracketings of science and technology. Man's suffering at the technology includes loneliness, boredom, frustration and An urgent need arises to develop the pupil's technological capacity and skill, and to actualise his potential, as long as Being is deconcealed. A technology-based education system, mainly for blacks, based on Japan, is being considered. Influenced by science and technology, verbal and nonverbal aspects are separated in drama and poetry. These aspects are integrated in drama and poetry encountered in action, as poetic thinking unites Being and being. Computer education, like writing, focuses on and teievision emphasises nonverbal factors. If pupils participate in drame, their actions are authentic. Mere spectators act inauthentically. A scientifically-influenced literary critic separates the play's parts and ignores nonverbal qualities. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Philosophy of Education)

Thesis (MA (Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / This study had two main objectives: Firstly, to investigate the relationship between existential meaning-in-life and racial prejudice amongst students at Stellenbosch University; secondly to investigate how quantifiable aspects of existential meaning-inlife relate to each other to determine existential meaning-in-life in a clear, quantifiable way. The study was conducted on an ad hoc-sample of 149 students from Stellenbosch University. Relevant existential theories were reviewed in order to extract quantifiable aspects of existential meaning-in-life. The following Scales were used to measure these aspects: The Self-Transcendence Scale of the Temperament and Character Inventory; the Conformity Scale; the Self-Reflectivity subscale of the Self-Consciousness Scale; the Interpersonal Reactivity Index; the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values; and the Purpose in Life Test. A principal components analysis revealed that conformity did not relate adequately to the other variables. The following underlying dimensions of existential meaning-in-life emerged: Self-Absolution, Life Appreciation and Existential Self-Transcendence. These dimensions were entered into multiple regression analyses to predict the respective subscales of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (COBRAS), which was used to measure racial prejudice. Regression analyses showed Self-Absolution to predict scores on Subscale A of the COBRAS, Life Appreciation predicted scores on Subscale B, and all the dimensions predicted scores on Subscale C. Gender differences in the relationship between predictor variables and outcome variables emerged. It was found that this relationship was considerably weaker in women, if not absent: Only Self-Absolution was found to predict scores on Subscale C, while none of the underlying dimensions could predict scores on any of the other subscales. Gender differences on other variables also emerged, suggesting that the underlying dimensions of existential meaning-in-life may differ between genders. The results of this study, as well as its limitations are discussed, as are recommendations for further study.

In the following thesis, two interrelated arguments are offered: firstly, a re-appropriation of the passing figure from an African-American context to the Anglo-Indian context is suggested, which it is argued, will allow new methods for the study of the hybrid figure in British literature to develop. Secondly, the thesis works to critique the relationship between poststructuralism and postcolonialism, suggesting a move away from a discourse concerned with anti-reality and its linguistic-theoretical focus to a framework with stronger roots in the study of postcoloniality as a real, lived condition experienced by a large number of people. The above arguments are realized through a reading of Anglo-Indian literature which closely aligns both the displaced postcolonial figure and the passing figure through a shared ability to perform multiple identities. In adopting the passing figure, Anglo-Indian literature illustrates the rejection of in culture forms of rigid and constraining essentialisms and the commitment to modernist and contemporary cultural discourses of identity construction in the hybrid figure of postcolonial works. Such cultural discourses of identity presuppose the intervention of performativity in the negotiation of multiple selves. Both the hybrid postcolonial figure and the passing figure display an adoption of performance in identity construction. In a theoretical reflection of the multiplicity offered by the passing figure, a number of diverse critical approaches to these Anglo-Indian texts are introduced. Specifically, the aim is to suggest alternative theoretical approaches to the hegemonic poststructuralist critical view. I will argue that the reliance upon poststructuralist theory can be detrimental to the full exploration of the postcolonial identity, due largely to the tendency to privilege textual fee-play over experiential analysis. I am proposing a modification to the relationship between deconstruction and postcolonialism, whereby certain selected deconstructive techniques are appropriated alongside more existentialist concerns that reflect the real, lived conditions of postcolonial environments. In relocating textual critique within an approach more concerned with the real-life experience of multiplicity, this study advocates a continuing relevance of a more existentialist mode of postcolonialism, as exemplified by Sartre and Fanon, and other adjacent theorists. An example of this is that popular and contemporary authors such as Naipaul, Rushdie, Kureishi and Malkani are read in light of “dialogical self theory”, R.D. Laing’s “false-self system”, Fish’s “interpretive communities” thesis and Goffman’s concept of “front”. Dialogical self theory and the false-self system ensure a firm underpinning of the internal psychological structure of the passing figure’s psyche, establishing a discourse of postcolonialism that is centred on the real experience of multiplicity. The following work on interpretive communities and front allow for the connection of the internal construction of self to the wider social environment through the relocation of the passing figure’s identity in relation to the interpretations of the audience.

The purpose of this study is to assess the cogency of Francis Schaeffer‘s apologetic in light of John Frame‘s triperspectival epistemology, giving special attention to the existential perspective evident throughout Schaeffer‘s trilogy. The study achieves this aim by employing the instrumental case study method to meet five specific objectives. First, the study determines the extent to which Schaeffer‘s existential perspective is recognized within the apologetic literature that critically engages with his ideas. Based on these sources, the study determines that this perspective is recognized in Schaeffer‘s work but not as an integral component within a broader perspectival approach to apologetics. Second, the study discovers the ways in which Frame‘s triperspectivalism may be used in analyzing apologetic systems to reveal their strengths, weaknesses and cogency. By giving attention to Frame‘s system as a meta-apologetic, it is evident that this tool is applicable to Schaeffer and to other apologists. This establishes Frame‘s perspectivalism as an appropriate theoretical model to use in an instrumental case study on apologetics. Third, the study analyzes the ways in which Frame‘s triperspectivalism is reflected in Schaeffer‘s trilogy, highlighting the existential perspective. Meeting this objective establishes the central theoretical argument of the study, showing that Frame‘s epistemology reveals the underlying cogency of Schaeffer‘s apologetic credibly (?) and does so most profoundly with respect to the existential perspective. Fourth, the study compares Schaeffer‘s existential perspective with that of E.J. Carnell and secular existentialism, which both apologists confronted. On the basis of Carnell‘s critique of existentialism and his existential apologetic of personal rectitude, credible support is offered for Schaeffer‘s engagement with this philosophical movement and his own existential perspective. Fifth, support is offered for the current relevance of Schaeffer‘s apologetic of personal rectitude by showing how the postmodern situation he anticipated is best addressed using the apologetic tools he offers. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Dogmatics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

This thesis offers a systematic engagement with the theological hermeneutics of Hans Frei. The two key conceptual categories are “the logic of belief” and “the content of God”. The former refers to the grammatical ordering of theological statements: Frei is concerned to distinguish grammatical logic from ontology, and to establish the actual starting point for any given theological enterprise. Frei’s own preference for a “linear” and “cumulative” method built upon the starting point of a realistic narrative reading of the gospels is unpacked and explored. The second category, “the content of God”, refers to Frei’s search for an account in which God has actual reality, as opposed to a mere metaphysical abstraction. Indeed, for Frei, the arrival – or failure to arrive – at a ‘concrete’ account of God is the test of any theological starting point, as evidenced in the ability or otherwise to do exegetical justice to the narrative shape of the crucifixion-resurrection sequence. The thesis demonstrates that for Frei, the starting point in the logic of belief must be the identity of Jesus Christ as revealed in scripture, and only on that basis can a concrete content of God be posited. In so doing, the intention is to set Frei very firmly within his mid-twentieth century context, in particular his engagement with and ultimate rejection of existentialist and Neo-orthodox theology. Accordingly, the thesis traces the development in Frei’s thinking of these two conceptual categories, from his doctoral thesis on Barth’s early theology up to and including his twin publications, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative (1974) and The Identity of Jesus Christ (1975). Later works by Frei are also considered in relation to these. The thesis does not stop at the mid-twentieth century, but illustrates the continued relevance of Frei’s hermeneutical theology into this century, putting him in conversation with a number of systematic and biblical theologians. Suggestions are made as to his applicability to modern theological concerns, including the debate surrounding the being and action of God: a field where he has yet to be deployed successfully.

This thesis examines time, death, and choice in Philip Larkin's poetry, arguing that his approach to these themes is not deterministic, but existential. The argument is based on the similarity between Larkin's views and those of three existential philosophers. Larkin's view of time, like Heidegger's, is that men live not in long stretches of time, but in processions of unconnected yet similar moments. A constant underlying sadness, like Kierkegaard's despair, makes each moment reminiscent of death. Like Sartre, Larkin finds meaning in his choices, and struggles to live authentically without expectation. Although Thomas Hardy influenced Larkin, given these similarities, Larkin's poetry cannot rightly be called deterministic. It is an attempt to preserve experience for its own sake.

In its complexity, human existence cannot be systematised and generalised into a compact concept. Existentialists are those who devoted themselves to Human individuality and phenomena fundamentally related, such as life, death, freedom, absurdity etc. However, considering the specifics of the philosophy of existentialism, it is not possible to only consider philosophers as the only bearers of this intellectual approach, but it is necessary to include certain individuals of world literature in this movement. The concept of human existence has transformed itself in various ways in their philosophy and works. Once it was dominated by the existence of God, to whom it was necessary to set one's mind on, at other times it was thrown into the bleakness and futility of a world without hope. However, the central topic was the same in each of them, the subject that is closest to us people, however, the subject that will always be the great unknown, regardless of the genial thoughts of Sören Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevsky and Albert Camus - the topic of mankind and its place in the world.

The work is divided into two chapters. In the first one the World's and Czech poets (chosen on the basis of Orten's list of reading) are analyzed. Those authors could be understood as impersonators or predecessors of the existential tendencies and it's provable Orten knew their works well (i.a. Rilke, Rimbaud, Akhmatova, Mácha, Weiner, Halas, Holan, Zahradníček, Bonn and Daniel). The second and more voluminous chapter consists of the motives' and topics' analysis of Orten's literary work, focused mainly on the poetry and less on the other literary genres - notes, letters, prose. The most of his poems and notes is based on the factual life experience and their ethos is founded on both existential and Christian moral philosophy. There's also an influence of some other intellectual tendencies and artistic styles like folk literature, romanticism, impressionism, less intensively expressionism, naturalism, psychoanalysis, surrealism and naturism. To get the coherent interpretation of Orten's work it's necessary to reflect (beside the existential motives) the pathos of the intimate traumatic relationship to the father, the girl(friend)s and the unborn child as well as the deeply Christian understanding of reality (connected with the biblical /The Old Testament/ dialogical relation to the God, the...

Philosophiquement le XXème siècle est de bien des façons un siècle existentialiste où l’existence est pensée comme transcendance du monde dans l’attente. Selon l’existentialisme l’homme est à la fois dans le monde et outre le monde car si la situation nous transcende dans sa factualité nous la transcendons par notre volonté. Pourtant pour l’existentialisme de l’échec rien – si ce n’est la mort – ne peut vraiment libérer l’homme de la situation de fait du monde historique: sa seule transcendance peut alors être seulement dans le sentiment d’une impossibilité de la transcendance et donc dans conscience de l’échec. On retrouve poétiquement cette situation d’échec dans le mythe d’Orphée où elle interroge métalogiquement le pouvoir de l’acte poétique. Au-delà de l’orphisme religieux le mythe d’Orphée nous propose alors la vision d’un chant qui est à la fois désenchantement nostalgique et enchantement épistémique et donc respectivement lamentation pour ce qui n’est plus et admiration pour ce qui est. Orphique est donc la mélancolie nostalgique qui en vain veut transcender le présent dans le passé mais qui toutefois en tant que phonie magique transcende le présent dans le futur. On peut alors pour le XXème siècle poétique parler d’existentialisme orphique et recenser certaines de ses manifestations les plus éminentes. Dans la poésie italienne le poème L’ultimo viaggio (1904) de Pascoli présente un syntagme – non esser più – qui porte à lui seul une problématique existentialiste – aussi bien dans son mode nostalgique négatif que dans son mode épistémique affirmatif – que l’on retrouve de manière tout aussi forte chez Ungaretti et Montale et Pasolini où l’aspiration à l’être vit indiscutablement dans la désolation du ne plus être. Ces quatre poètes sont alors affrontés selon une même méthode herméneutique qui actualise la microcritique d’un syntagme fortement circonstanciel – non esser più pour Pascoli, equivoco della luna pour Ungaretti, eternità d’istante pour Montale et grin di cristàl pour Pasolini – par la macrocritique du corpus poétique de chaque poète afin d’interroger – tout au long du XXème siècle – diverses modalités d’un même existentialisme orphique. / Philosophically the 20th century is in many ways an existentialist century where the existence is thought of as transcendence of the world in the expectation. According to existentialism man is at the same time in the world and beyond the world because if the situation transcends us in its factuality we transcend it by our will. Yet for the existentialism of failure nothing – except death – can really free man from the factual situation of the historic world: his sole transcendence can only be in the feeling of the impossibility of transcendence and thus in the consciousness of failure. Poetically we find this situation of failure in the myth of Orpheus where the power of the poetic act is questioned metalogically. Beyond the religious orphism the myth of Orpheus offers us the vision of a chant which is at the same time nostalgic disenchantment and epistemic enchantment and therefore respectively a lamentation for what is no more and admiration for what is. Thus orphic is the nostalgic melancholy which in vain wants to transcend the present in the past but nontheless as a magic word transcends the present in the future. So for the 20th poetic century we can speak of orphic existentialism and list some of its most eminent manifestations. In the Italian poetry the poem L’ultimo viaggio (1904) by Pascoli presents a phrase – non esser più – which carries of its own an existentialist problematic – both in its negative nostalgic way as in its affirmative epistemic way – that we find with equal force in Ungaretti and Montale and Pasolini where, without any doubts, the aspiration to the being lives in the desolation of the no longer being. These four poets are thus faced with the same hermeneutic method which actualizes the microcriticism of a strongly circumstantial phrase – non esser più for Pascoli, equivoco della luna for Ungaretti, eternità d’istante for Montale and grin di cristàl for Pasolini – via the macrocriticism of the poetic corpus of each poet in order to question – all along the 20th century – different modalities of one and the same orphic existentialism.

Esta dissertação é uma leitura de A Paixão segundo G.H., de Clarice Lispector. Tem como foco a questão da liberdade do homem no mundo e de suas possibilidades de dizer, como tratadas no romance. Aproxima-se em diversos aspectos da crítica de Benedito Nunes à obra da escritora, no que diz respeito à identificação e às diferenças entre Clarice e o existencialismo de Sartre. Uma idéia de ritmo binário é formulada, sucessão de afirmações e negações, que dá cadência ao texto e o estrutura. Os dois tempos desse ritmo são relacionados a duas idéias diferentes de liberdade, (1) a de poder (e ser obrigado a) escolher e (2) a de não ser obrigado a (nem poder) escolher. Formuladas como características de dimensões diferentes do ser humano, as duas vias que tais liberdades abrem não podem ser sintetizadas numa única. / This dissertation is about Clarice Lispector\'s A Paixão Segundo G.H. Its main focus is on the issue of mankind\'s freedom and its possibilities of saying, as dealt with in the novel. In many respects, it is close to Benedito Nunes\' viewpoint in what regards the similarities and differences between Clarice Lispector and the Sartrean existentialism. A sense of binary rhythm is built, sequence of statements and negatives, which structures the text and gives it a cadence. This rhythm\'s two tempos are related to two different ideas about freedom. First, the sense of being able (having to/being forced to) choose and, second, of not being forced to (or being able to) choose. Enounced as characteristics of human beings\' different dimensions, the two paths opened up by these senses of freedom cannot be merged into a single whole.