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Grok (/ ˈ ɡ r ɒ k /) is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", [1] Heinlein's concept ...
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
Baruch Spinoza. In Chapter Six of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise ("Of Miracles"), Spinoza claims that the universal laws of nature are decrees of God. Hence, any event happening in nature which contravened nature's universal laws, would necessarily also contravene the Divine decree, nature, and understanding; or if anyone asserted that God acted in contravention to the laws of nature ...
Lebensphilosophie (German: [ˈleːbm̩s.filozoˌfiː]; meaning 'philosophy of life') was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. Lebensphilosophie emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy. [1]
An accompanying music video was released on May 14, 2018, in celebration of Mother's Day, and features Clarkson with her own children, which symbolizes her "meaning of life". To promote the album, Clarkson performed the track at the fifteenth series of the British program Strictly Come Dancing .
Meaning therapy interventions focus on self-transcendence, such as reframing bad situations into some larger meaningful context and pursuing some life goal that is larger than oneself. [39] Currently, he is a Virtue Scholar of the collaborative working group on Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life, [ 40 ] funded by the John Templeton ...
The Six Ages, as formulated by Augustine of Hippo, are defined in De catechizandis rudibus (On the catechizing of the uninstructed), Chapter 22: . The First Age "is from the beginning of the human race, that is, from Adam, who was the first man that was made, down to Noah, who constructed the ark at the time of the flood", i.e. the Antediluvian period.
The phrase credo ut intelligam is often associated with Anselm's other famous phrase fides quaerens intellectum [3] [2] ("faith seeking understanding"). [2] The phrase is based on a sentence of Augustine of Hippo (crede ut intellegas, [4] lit. "believe so that you may understand") [5] [2] to relate faith and reason.