Being a Person
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A Theory of Human Violence
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Emotions
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being human and being a person; being a person as a way of relating to
possibilities in the world; the actualisation of a self. |
A theory that humans remain violent because of a process addiction to
certain (political rather than moral) ways of thinking; evaluating
violence.
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What emotions are, how they are formed, and what they show us about ourselves. |
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Heidegger
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Personal Morality
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Social Morality
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A look at the main themes in Martin Heidegger's 1927 masterwork Being and Time. Includes a glossary of terms.
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A possible morality for human persons wanting to be less violent and more authentic than is usual for humans. |
A right to cultural/natural integrity; equality as fairness; dealing with anti-social behaviours. |
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Self-deception
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Granddad Stories
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Books
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A theory about how and why humans deceive themselves.
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A selection of children's stories grouped by age (3-6, 7-11, and 11+)
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Purchase A Reader's Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time, Out of the Caves (a Theory
of Human Violence), BEING REAL: Human Persons,
violence, and authenticity, and Novels by Steven Foulds |
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Sacrifice: A Speculation
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The Viking Way
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A View of Maori Myth and Ritual
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| Thoughts about the logic, point, and origin, of religious sacrifice. |
An introduction to Norse/Viking mythology and religious practice from the first millennium of the Common Era.
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Gender
and duality in the myths and rituals of pre-European Maori in the lower
North Island of New Zealand. Some legends concerning New Zealand
volcanoes
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Conscience
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Why
do persons have a conscience? What is it and what does it do for us?
The hypothesis offered here does not appeal to any religious,
scientific, or pseudo-scientific theories, but only to the common
experience of humans being persons in the world.
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