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Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation, nihilism and apathy.Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, [1] depression, loneliness, anhedonia, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders, including schizoid personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and ...
Emptiness is logical when one thing is devoid of another because of that [other's] absence and because of the presence of the empty thing itself. [73] Asaṅga also states: The nonexistence of duality is indeed the existence of nonexistence; this is the definition of emptiness. It is neither existence, nor nonexistence, neither different nor ...
His elongated figures, such as Walking Man (1960), evoke a sense of isolation and alienation, with the surrounding space emphasizing the emptiness and solitude of the figures. Giacometti's work reflects existential themes, where the Void becomes a metaphor for the human condition and the pervasive sense of nothingness that can accompany it. [30]
They do so, states Mun-Keat Choong, in three ways: first, in the common sense of a monk's meditative state of emptiness; second, with the main sense of anātman or 'everything in the world is empty of self'; third, with the ultimate sense of Nirvana or realization of emptiness and thus an end to rebirth cycles of suffering. [64]
The pleroma is the abode of the Æons. . . they are, or they comprise, the eternal ideas or archetypes of the Platonic philosophy. . . .Separated from this celestial region by Horos. . . or Boundary . . . lies the ‘kenoma’ or ‘void’—the kingdom of this world, the region of matter and material things, the land of shadow and darkness.
The understanding of "nothing" varies widely between cultures, especially between Western and Eastern cultures and philosophical traditions. For instance, Śūnyatā (emptiness), unlike "nothingness", is considered to be a state of mind in some forms of Buddhism (see Nirvana, mu, and Bodhi).
He recognized that the official definition of PTSD failed to describe their mental anguish, leading him to coin the term “moral injury.” The ideals taught at Parris Island “are the best of what human beings can do,” said William P. Nash, a retired Navy psychiatrist who deployed with Marines to Iraq as a combat therapist.
In this sense, in constructing a world where objective knowledge is possible, Christianity is an antidote against a primal form of nihilism, against the despair of meaninglessness. However, it is exactly the element of truthfulness in Christian doctrine that is its undoing: in its drive towards truth, Christianity eventually finds itself to be ...