Desire, a passionate yearning, an intrinsic drive which is associated with the conscious imagining of a condition or object, the attainment or appropriation of which can neutralise the very deficit which has prompted the desire or drive in the first place. The associated emotions, fantasies and wishes can point the way for desire as an intrinsic drive. Desire always has an object, a target, which manifests a pronounced emphasis on pleasure. This dominance…
Desire, a passionate yearning, an intrinsic drive which is associated with the conscious imagining of a condition or object, the attainment or appropriation of which can neutralise the very deficit which has prompted the desire or drive in the first place. The associated emotions, fantasies and wishes can point the way for desire as an intrinsic drive. Desire always has an object, a target, which manifests a pronounced emphasis on pleasure. This dominance…
Certain behavioural or cognitive patterns that do not conform to accepted social norms are referred to as madness and insanity. As a rule, social convention determines what is understood as “madness”: the term can mean mere deviation from these conventions, but also psychoses characterised by delusions and altered perception.
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The Japanese concept “mono no aware” – literally “the pathos of things” – denotes the consciousness of the transience of everything and carries with it a subtle undertone of wistful sadness about their passing. The notion, formulated during the Edo period by the scholar Motoori Norinaga, was originally a term used in literary criticism, which was subsequently transferred to Japanese culture and outlook on the world in general. Sensitivity for the…
Impermanence denotes the inconstancy of all being and the concomitant emphemerailty of human existence. It is a key concept in Buddhist philosophy, according to which everything without exception is caught up in the eternal flow of transience, which can be experienced in human life in the process of aging, in the cycle of birth and rebirth and in every possible experience of loss. In European philosophy, too, the question regarding the emergence and…
Fear, the psychological term for a state of mind associated with fear and feelings of terror. Anxiety can relate both to a supposed or a real threat, to specific or non-specific persons, situations or objects. It is associated with certain ideas, fantasies or expectations as well as reactions of the nervous system. Anxiety can be temporally restricted in particular individual situations and in the case of occasional psychological “injuries”, but also…
Isolation, the enforced of voluntary condition of minimal social contact as well as the temporary or lasting segregation of individuals or groups. The negative effects of enforced isolation are many and diverse and range from social disorientation to aggression or resignation. On the other hand, the conscious outward intensification of social distance that individuals and particular political, ethnic or religious communities impose upon themselves…
Fanaticism, the obstinate, aggressive pursuit of set or believed goals which are elevated to an absolute value without any differentated reference to overall reality, either as personal fanaticism in the struggle for one’s supposed rights or the fanatical commitment to an idea. Fanaticism neutralises self-scrutiny and external objections and is blind to alien viewpoints and/or intoerant. According to Simone de Beauvoir, mankind becomes a means to…
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields.[10][11] It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.[12] Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the…
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