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  • on how a person reacts to [[existential despair|despair]]. ... In his examination of the forms of despair, Kierkegaard examines the ...
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  • struggle to meet modernity with something more than despair. Crane identified T.S. Eliot with that kind of despair, and while he acknowledged the greatness ...
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  • ===The Philosophy of Despair=== [[Image:Shestov Lev.jpg|thumb|right ... It is the experience of despair, which Shestov describes as the loss ...
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  • and how to avoid them. These are lack of faith, despair, impatience, spiritual pride, and avarice. # The third chapter lists the seven questions ...
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  • Later works were less effective and less well regarded, after despair ... God in 20 days with "two days out for despair, and three days out in a ...
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  • is an elegiac expression of spiritual despair, a vision in which "evil ... and his work unremittingly reflects inner despair. But the originality and ...
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  • his analyses of existential anxiety and despair. Given the ambiguity of ... whether they are aware of it or not, live lives of despair. ...
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  • of the future that contrasted hope and despair. to the city of God, and the corruption and despair of the visible world contrasted ...
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  • years old, plunged him into violence and despair. He turned on the missionaries ... If the Divine spark in the soul cannot be destroyed, then we need ...
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  • came to be regarded as a psychological response to despair and disgust with the condition of the world. Certain writers and philosophers of the twentieth ...
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  • Media, a young woman named Sarah prays for death in despair. She has lost seven husbands to the demon of lust—Ashmodai (a demon frequently associated ...
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  • of grace, but instead to pessimism and despair. As someone noted, these ... Bresson, but color led to pessimism and despair, as if material absence ...
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  • moral protagonists driven to existential despair by their first-hand observations ... In fact, it leads him to new heights of despair, from which, instead of ...
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  • From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of Fifty Years ... From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of Fifty Years ...
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  • usually cocky Alcibiades to weep in shame and despair, an incident which Plato also records in the Symposium. Socrates claims that it is only through ...
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  • of grief and loss, Tennyson moves from despair through doubt and ultimately to faith. ==Notable works== * “The Kraken” * Harold - began a ...
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  • Pilate and Christ has led him to such despair that he burns his manuscript ... represents human passion and refuses to despair of her lover or his work ...
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  • duhkha. Sorrow, lamentation, dejection, and despair are duhkha. Contact with unpleasant things is duhkha, and separation from what one wishes is duhkha ...
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  • can be responsibly practiced in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate ... its goal. It is the surviving message of despair from the shipwrecked. ...
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  • of misfortune; and in adversity must not despair of prosperity's return." (Seder 'Olam R. xxv) Another legend states that on the ...
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