Definitions from Section A - Searching for Meaning and Values
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| show | are the basic needs that must be met by every human being before they can encounter the Search for Meaning.
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| show | is the concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy which in turn can affect the internal questioning of one, if not many people.
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| show | abundance of money, property, and other material goods; riches; wealth.
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| show | lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.
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| show | members of the generation of people born between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s who are highly educated andunderemployed, reject consumer culture, and have little hope for the future
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| show | is a formulated story that ‘explained’ life in a way that reflected their (society) understanding.
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| show | means the ‘love of wisdom’.
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| show | These were men concerned with the Natural World i.e. water, air & fire.
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| show | these were educated men who travelled from place to place offering tuition on subjects such as grammar, rhetoric and literature.
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| show | the art of persuasion, especially taken up by those with strong political ambitions.
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| show | the state or fact of being relative e.g. that Truth and Justice depend on the situation or the context.
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| show | He would take the role of the ignorant questioner and, through asking a few good questions, he would show the ‘experts’ how much they did not know.
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| show | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.
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| Dualistic Understanding | show 🗑
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| Platonic | show 🗑
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| show | an approach derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
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| Form | show 🗑
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| show | that which relates to form as potentiality does to actuality.
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| Determinist | show 🗑
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| Enlightenment | show 🗑
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| Autonomous | show 🗑
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| show | comes from the discovery that the existence of the self is the point of certainty: ‘I think therefore I am’. It is here that all meaningful reflection must come.
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| show | a modern philosophical movement stressing the importance of personal experience and responsibility and the demands that they make on the individual, who is seen as a free agent in a deterministic and seemingly meaningless universe.
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| show | a person who habitually doubts the authenticity of accepted beliefs.
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| show | something that represents or stands for something else, usuallyby convention or association, esp. a material object used to represent something abstract.
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| show | an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
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| show | Ceremonies that mark transition periods in a person's life, such as birth, having children, and death.Rites of passage usually involve ritual activities and teachings designed to strip individuals of their original roles and prepare them for new roles.
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| show | the state or quality of being dedicated to God, religion, or spiritual things or values, esp. as contrasted with material or temporal ones.
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| show | any sacred word or syllable used as an object of concentration and embodying some aspect of spiritual power.
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| Humanism | show 🗑
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| show | the doctrine or belief that there is no god.
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| show | a means by measuring disorder within system.
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| show | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype
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| show | freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience
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| show | (especially among certain tribal peoples) a person who acts asintermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, usingmagic to cure illness, foretell the future, control spiritual forces,etc.
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| show | was the time when monotheism became firmly established
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| show | New Testament . an Aramaic word for father, used by Jesus and Paul to address god in a relation of personal intimacy
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| show | is the process whereby God discloses himself to humanity
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| show | is where God makes himself known to all people at all times in all places
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| show | is where God reveals himself in a special way at a particular time and place
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| show | another name for the Ten Commandments
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| Liberation Theology | show 🗑
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| show | means to understand events in our lives as sacred
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| show | is when people look at the argument that if God existed in the mind only and not in reality, then he would not be the greatest being conceivable
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