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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    Doing valuable time : the present, the future, and meaningful living (2018)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780190851866
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 185 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Calhoun, Cheshire Doing valuable time
    DDC: 128
    RVK:
    CC 6600
    Keywords: Life ; Life ; Meaning (Philosophy) ; Time ; Sinn ; Lebenssinn ; Zukunft ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Philosophie ; Sinn ; Lebenssinn ; Zukunft ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Having a future, leading a life, and spending time -- Geographies of meaningful living -- Taking an interest in one's future -- Motivating hope -- What good is commitment? -- Living with boredom -- On being content with imperfection
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    The human predicament : a candid guide to life's biggest questions (2017)
    New York : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190633820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 128
    RVK:
    CC 6600
    RVK:
    LB 30000
    Keywords: Life ; Life ; Meaning (Philosophy) ; Electronic books ; Sinn
    Abstract: Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths by acts of suicide? Many people are tempted to offer comforting optimistic answers to these big questions. The Human Predicament offers a less sanguine assessment, and defends a substantial, but not unmitigated, pessimism.
    Abstract: Cover -- The Human Predicament -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- A Reader's Guide -- 1. Introduction -- Life's big questions -- Pessimism and optimism -- The human predicament and the animal predicament -- To tell or not to tell? -- 2. Meaning -- Introduction -- Understanding the question -- The (somewhat) good news -- Meaning sub specie hominis -- Meaning sub specie communitatis -- Meaning sub specie humanitatis -- Conclusion -- 3. Meaninglessness -- The bad news -- The theistic gambit -- Nature's "purposes" -- Scarce value -- Discounting the cosmic perspective -- Focusing on terrestrial meaning -- Sour grapes and varieties of meaning worth wanting -- Conclusion -- 4. Quality -- The meaning and the quality of life -- Why people's judgments about the quality of their lives are unreliable -- The poor quality of human life -- Why there is more bad than good -- Secular optimistic theodicies -- Conclusion -- 5. Death -- Introduction -- Is death bad? -- Hedonism (and its discontents) -- The deprivation account -- Annihilation -- When is death bad for the person who dies? -- The symmetry argument -- Taking Epicureans seriously? -- How bad are different deaths? -- Living in the shadow of death -- 6. Immortality -- Delusions and fantasies of immortality -- Sour grapes -- Conclusion -- 7. Suicide -- Introduction -- Responding to common arguments against suicide -- Suicide as murder -- Suicide as irrational -- Suicide as unnatural -- Suicide as cowardice -- Interests of others -- The finality of death -- Broadening the case for suicide -- A more accurate assessment of life's quality -- Does meaninglessness in life warrant suicide? -- Restoring an individual's control -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- The human predicament in a nutshell -- Pessimism and optimism (again) -- Responding to the human predicament -- Notes -- Bibliography.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    The human predicament : a candid guide to life's biggest questions (2017)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780190633813
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 264 Seiten , 19 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Benatar, David, 1966 - The human predicament
    DDC: 128
    RVK:
    CC 6600
    RVK:
    LB 30000
    Keywords: Life ; Meaning (Philosophy) ; Sinn
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index
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  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The human predicament : a candid guide to life's biggest questions (2017)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780190633844
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 264 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Benatar, David, 1966 - The human predicament
    DDC: 128
    RVK:
    CC 6600
    RVK:
    LB 30000
    Keywords: Life ; Meaning (Philosophy) ; Life ; Meaning (Philosophy) ; Sinn
    Abstract: 'The Human Predicament' engages life's big questions. Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths by acts of suicide? Many people are tempted to offer comforting, optimistic answers to these existential questions. The text offers a less sanguine assessment and defends a substantial, but not unmitigated, pessimism
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633813.001.0001
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    The Oxford handbook of human development and culture : an interdisciplinary perspective (2015)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780199948550 , 9780190619664
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 742 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Oxford library of psychology
    DDC: 305.2
    RVK:
    CV 7500
    RVK:
    CQ 1000
    RVK:
    LC 58000
    Keywords: Entwicklungspsychologie ; Ethnopsychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Literaturangaben , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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    HU Berlin
    München BSB
    München UB
    Regensburg UB
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    Bayreuth UB
  • 6
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Narrative and the politics of identity : the cultural psychology of Israeli and Palestinian youth (2011)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780195394467 , 9780199863488 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780199863488
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.235095694
    RVK:
    CV 7500
    Keywords: Juden ; Palästinenser ; Jugend ; Identität ; Ethnopsychologie ; Israel
    Abstract: Since the late 19th century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous significance. This book offers an analysis of the consequences of conflict for the psyche before addressing the mutual constitution of culture and mind through the process of life-story construction.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Online-Ausg.:
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394467.001.0001
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394467.001.0001
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  • 7
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The handbook of culture & psychology (2001)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0195302273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen , 26 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von The handbook of culture & psychology
    DDC: 155.8
    RVK:
    CV 7500
    Keywords: Ethnopsychology ; Personality and culture ; Ethnopsychology ; Personality and culture ; Kultur ; Ethnopsychologie ; Persönlichkeit ; Kulturpsychologie ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kulturpsychologie ; Ethnopsychologie ; Persönlichkeit ; Kultur
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Enthält bibliografische Hinweise und Index , Culture and psychology at a crossroad: historical perspective and theoretical analysis / John Adamopoulos and Walter J. Lonner -- Individualism and collectivism : past, present, and future / Harry C. Tirandis -- Culture, science, and indigenous psychologies : an integrated analysis / Uichol Kim -- The evolution of cross-cultural research methods / Fons van de Vijver -- Culture, context, and development / Harry W. Gardiner -- Cognition across cultures / R.C. Mishra -- Everyday cognition : where culture, psychology, and education come together / Analúcia D. Schliemann and David W. Carraher -- Culture and moral development / Joan G. Miller -- Culture and emotion / David Matsumoto -- Gender and culture / Deborah L. Best and John E. Williams -- Culture and control orientations / Susumu Yamaguchi -- Culture and human inference : perspectives from three traditions / Kaiping Peng, Daniel R. Ames, and Eric D. Knowles -- Abnormal psychology and culture / Junko Tanaka-Matsumi -- Clinical psy
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    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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    München BSB
    München UB
    Würzburg UB
    Regensburg UB
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    BVB
    Bayreuth UB
  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The handbook of culture & psychology (2001)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0195302273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen , 26 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von The handbook of culture & psychology
    DDC: 155.8
    RVK:
    CV 7500
    Keywords: Ethnopsychology ; Personality and culture ; Ethnopsychology ; Personality and culture ; Persönlichkeit ; Kulturpsychologie ; Kultur ; Ethnopsychologie ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kulturpsychologie ; Ethnopsychologie ; Persönlichkeit ; Kultur
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Enthält bibliografische Hinweise und Index , Culture and psychology at a crossroad: historical perspective and theoretical analysis / John Adamopoulos and Walter J. Lonner -- Individualism and collectivism : past, present, and future / Harry C. Tirandis -- Culture, science, and indigenous psychologies : an integrated analysis / Uichol Kim -- The evolution of cross-cultural research methods / Fons van de Vijver -- Culture, context, and development / Harry W. Gardiner -- Cognition across cultures / R.C. Mishra -- Everyday cognition : where culture, psychology, and education come together / Analúcia D. Schliemann and David W. Carraher -- Culture and moral development / Joan G. Miller -- Culture and emotion / David Matsumoto -- Gender and culture / Deborah L. Best and John E. Williams -- Culture and control orientations / Susumu Yamaguchi -- Culture and human inference : perspectives from three traditions / Kaiping Peng, Daniel R. Ames, and Eric D. Knowles -- Abnormal psychology and culture / Junko Tanaka-Matsumi -- Clinical psy
    URL: Volltext
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  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Confrontations with the reaper : a philosophical study of the nature and value of death (1994)
    New York : Oxford University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780199852963 , 0199852960
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 249 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Feldman, Fred, 1941 - Confrontations with the reaper
    DDC: 128.5
    RVK:
    CC 6020
    Keywords: Death ; Life ; Abortion ; Suicide ; Death ; Philosophy ; Tod ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Presenting a clear discussion of the philosophical questions surrounding death, the author investigates in a cohesive and comprehensive manner the great metaphysical and moral problems of death.
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195089288.001.0001
    URL: Volltext
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