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  2. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Themes often explore historically common or cross-culturally recognizable ideas, such as ethical questions, and are usually implied rather than stated explicitly. [5] An example of this would be whether one should live a seemingly better life, at the price of giving up parts of one's humanity, which is a theme in Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World .

  3. Style of life - Wikipedia

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    At its broadest, the life style includes self-concept, the self-ideal (or ego ideal), an ethical stance and a view of the wider world. [8] Classical Adlerian psychotherapy attempts to dissolve the archaic style of life and stimulate a more creative approach to living, using the standpoint of social usefulness as a benchmark for change. [9]

  4. List of science fiction themes - Wikipedia

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    While science fiction stories have many themes, exploration and discovery in space is a recurring focus. ... Life extension, Biological immortality, ...

  5. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Biography: a written narrative of a person's life; an autobiography is a self-written biography. Memoir: a biographical account of a particular event or period in a person's life (rather than their whole life) drawn from personal knowledge or special sources (such as the spouse of the subject). Misery literature; Slave narrative. Contemporary ...

  7. List of philosophical concepts - Wikipedia

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    Cambridge change; Camp; Cartesian other; Cartesian Self; Categorical imperative; Categorization; Category of being; Causal adequacy principle; Causality; Chakra

  8. Thematic learning - Wikipedia

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    Thematic teaching (also known as thematic instruction) is the selecting and highlighting of a theme through an instructional unit or module, course, or multiple courses.It is often interdisciplinary, highlighting the relationship of knowledge across academic disciplines and everyday life.

  9. Lifeworld - Wikipedia

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    Ideas of instrumental importance to a system are mediated according to the rules of that system (the most obvious example is the capitalist economy's use of currency). Self-deception , and thus systematically distorted communication, is possible only when the lifeworld has been 'colonized' by instrumental rationality, so some social norm comes ...