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Beyond Consciousness in Early Christian Mysticism
Late antique Christian mysticism is a way of transcending consciousness. The culmination of the approaches of the time is represented by the writings...
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The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps
This chapter presents the structure of the entire book Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives as formal...
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Religion, Leadership, and Consciousness: Interactions and Opportunities
Effective leadership is not about profit, goals, and vision alone – it is also about the curation of shared values and their implementation in the...
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Consciousness and Implicit Self-Awareness: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Some contemporary Western theories of consciousness, such as the higher-order thought (HOT) theory and self-representationalism, hold that there is...
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Comparison of Issues and Data Curation Strategies
This chapter synthesizes the literature reviewed in Chaps. 3 and 4, comparing key issues relating to qualitative data reuse and big social research,...
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Shared Social Orientation and Responsibility as Constituents
Unorganised collectives that are interesting in terms of moral responsibility are a set of individuals picked out by some normatively relevant fact....
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The Other Modern Séances
This chapter is a philosophical exploration of the topic specifically sidestepped in Patočka’s paper: the survival of the soul after the death of the...
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“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or...
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Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
In Patočka’s later thought, death is a recurring theme. It is something that he analyzes phenomenologically and existentially, but also a theme that...
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Eating as a Wrong Relationship
This first chapter will be looking at our relationship with food and drink. Usually, such relationship is appreciated and valued either for the...
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The Sacred Meal. Religion and Secularism, Amidst Need and Desire
In this chapter, we are going to show how our relationship with food and drinks encompasses not only material elements but also cultural and symbolic...
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Manifestations of Barbarism
We saw in the previous section that the “civilising” phase of capitalism ended in the late 1960s. Since then, capital has systematically denied...
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Acting Before Future Generations
This chapter establishes that intergenerational environmental ethics and policy relating to intergenerational environmental ethics tend to privilege...
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The Foundations of Self-Managed Socialism: The Contribution of István Mészáros
Workers began to feel the need for self-management the first day that they were placed in a factory against their will. In the nineteenth century,...
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Notes on Social Movements and Education: Challenges of the Struggle Between Capital and Labour in Brazil
This chapter aims to outline the relationship between social movements and education in light of the particularities of Brazilian capitalism. We...
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Introduction to Collective and Shared Responsibility for Climate Change
The starting position for this book is that not only states and international bodies have a responsibility to take action to mitigate climate change....
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Conclusion
The conclusion argues that the understanding of inheritance as taken up and critiqued in this manuscript allows us to see the sense in which energy...
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Institutional Design for the Development of Algorithmic Democracy
This last chapter presents several examples of how it is possible to create public spheres within the institutions of civil society, especially in...
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Digital Twins: On Algorithm-Based Political Participation
The aim of this chapter is to critically analyse the challenges facing the application of participatory processes based on Artificial intelligence...
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Conclusion: Elements of a Theory of Need-Based Justice
This chapter aggregates the results of the disciplinary and mostly experimental sub-projects of the research group “Need-Based Justice and...