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The title is a play on the title of Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui (The Doctor, in Spite of Himself). Written during the Vietnam War, Stasheff's novel clothed his thinly veiled commentary about the proper uses of government and democracy in a fantasy about interstellar travel, fairies, unusual flora and refugees fleeing persecution. [1]
The Doctor and the Soul is a book by Viktor E. Frankl, the Viennese psychiatrist and founder of logotherapy. [1] [2] [3] [4]The book explores topics on the meaning of life in general as well as the meaning of specific areas of one's life, such as work and personal relationships.
Absurdism is the philosophical thesis that life, or the world in general, is absurd. There is wide agreement that the term "absurd" implies a lack of meaning or purpose but there is also significant dispute concerning its exact definition and various versions have been suggested.
Front page of The Doctor in Spite of Himself—engraving from the 1719 edition. Le Médecin malgré lui (French pronunciation: [lə medsɛ̃ malɡʁe lɥi]; "The doctor/physician in spite of himself") is a farce by Molière first presented in 1666 (published as a manuscript in early 1667 [1]) at le théâtre du Palais-Royal by la Troupe du Roi. [2]
Causa sui (pronounced [ˈkau̯.sa ˈsʊ.iː]; transl. cause of itself, self-caused) is a Latin term that denotes something that is generated within itself. Used in relation to the purpose that objects can assign to themselves, the concept was central to the works of Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernest Becker.
Book 7 of third edition series of Wordly Wise textbooks. Wordly Wise 3000 is an American series of workbooks published by Educators Publishing Service for the teaching of spelling and vocabulary. Books A through C (for grades 2–4) introduce 300 words and books 1–9 (grades 4–12) 3,000 words, all with exercises. [ 1 ]
The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [2] [4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.
Gilbert Patten was born in Corinna, Maine in 1866. His father, a carpenter, and his mother were deeply religious pacifists.They were Seventh Day Adventists. [2] He entered Corinna Union Academy at fourteen, but when his father threatened that he would be put to work if he did not improve at school, Patten ran away to Biddeford, Maine where he worked in a machine shop.