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  2. The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent - Wikipedia

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    In the 21st century, Erskine’s essay was the titular essay of the book The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays (2000), edited by the literary critic Lionel Trilling, of the Columbia University faculty, and featured an introduction by the literary critic Leon Wieseltier. [7]

  3. Positive psychology in the workplace - Wikipedia

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    “Proponents of the well-being perspective argue that the presence of positive emotional states and positive appraisals of the worker and his or her relationships within the workplace accentuate worker performance and quality of life”. [12] A common idea in work environment theories is that demands match or slightly exceed the resources.

  4. Bullshit Jobs - Wikipedia

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    Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth.

  5. Clairvoyance - Wikipedia

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    Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance [1]. Clairvoyance (/ k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ. ə n s /; from French clair ' clear ' and voyance ' vision ') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".

  6. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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    The collection includes essays on the subjects of sociology, ethics and philosophy.In the eponymous essay, Russell displays a series of arguments and reasoning with the aim of stating how the 'belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour' and how work 'is by no means one of the ...

  7. Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human ...

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    "Derrida, Algeria, and 'Structure, Sign, and Play'" — essay by Lee Morrissey interpreting the lecture/essay with respect to Derrida's Algerian background; Lecture about "Structure, Sign, and Play" by Paul Fry at Yale University (February 2009) Lecture about "Structure, Sign, and Play" by John David Ebert on YouTube.

  8. Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce - Wikipedia

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    This is the trichotomy of all signs as building blocks of inference. (Also called sumisigns, dicent signs, and suadisigns, also semes, phemes, and delomes.) Every sign falls under one class or another within (I) and within (II) and within (III). Thus each of the three typologies is a three-valued parameter for every sign.

  9. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Two Essays on Analytical Psychology is volume 7 of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, presenting the core of Carl Jung's views about psychology.Known as one of the best introductions to Jung's work, the volumes includes the essays "The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious" (1928; 2nd edn., 1935) and "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" (1943).