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This essay will freely draw inspiration from Nietzsche’s thought (focused on Zarathustra, an artwork often set aside in ethics arguments), in order to build a definition of the perspective as a first step to ethic of authenticity, starting by enumerating what a perspective is not. How can we prove the existence of a substance which will be independ...
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The purpose of this qualitative enquiry was to map the psychological motives behind sustainable lifestyles. Narrative interviews with inhabitants (N = 8) of the ecovillage in Hurdal north of Oslo and the Sustainable Lives movement in Bergen were conducted. A thematic analysis shows that the informants express taking responsibility for climate chang...
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The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The name of “Tuuli Pern” is now corrected in the author group of this article. The original article has been corrected.
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It is common in the social science literature to describe human activities to be the results of the thoughts, mental frameworks, intentions, identities, and shortcomings of human agents and their interactions with others. In legal systems, the same type of approach exists in the form of laying blame on those judged responsible for having caused som...
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Dialogic introspection is a research method that makes introspection, which was increasingly frowned upon after the emergence of behaviourism, usable again in a systematic and scientifically based form. It is a method used for the exploration of experience—of conscious inner processes (feelings, thoughts, intentions and ideas), regardless of whethe...
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All human beings have what I call an ‘aura pure’ within and around their living bodies, which I am visually aware of and express through my artistic practice: painting. Objectivistic science, which relies solely on externally situated perception, neither recognises as real, nor offers any explanation for this phenomenon which it regards as the prod...
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In this article, we investigate the development of symbolicity from a semiotic point of view. We kick-start this investigation by drawing some fundamental parallels between the re-configurations of inner-outer exchange relations dealt with in biosemiotics (symbolicity) and general psychology (sentience) respectively. In constructing a developmental...
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Motherhood is a potentially disruptive experience in the life cycle. When the psychiatric diagnosis is added to this experience, it can become even more complex. Understanding the diagnostic categories as semiotic mediators, the present article seeks to analyze, through a narrative, the ways in which a woman diagnosed with a mental disorder gives m...
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A meta-synthesis was conducted to explore women’s constructions of anorexia nervosa and childhood trauma. Following a systematic review of the literature, six studies were isolated and synthesized within a material-discursive-intrapsychic framework to produce five taxonomies: “objectified and controlled bodies,” “the abject body,” “embodied emotion...
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Bodily experiences encompass and underpin all types of experiences of the mind, ranging from pre-reflective to self-reflective, from subjective to intersubjective, and from collectivistic to individualistic. Moreover, the self is shaped into diverse modes of being as a result of different focuses on bodily experiences. This paper describes the expe...
