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Social Science

The Act of Living

The title of this book, The Act of Living, situates that tension in the experience of living, meant not as merely surviving but as an act caught between the predicament of being defined by contingency and the quest to transcend the ...

Author: Marco Di Nunzio

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9781501735134

Category: Social Science

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The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change. Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, "Haile" and "Ibrahim," as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city's expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparently favourable circumstances of development have not helped them achieve social improvement. As their condition of marginality endures, the two men embark in restless attempts to transform living into a site for hope and possibility. By narrating Haile and Ibrahim's lives, The Act of Living explores how and why development continues to fail the poor, how marginality is understood and acted upon in a time of promise, and why poor people's claims for open-endedness can lead to better and more just alternative futures. Tying together anthropology, African studies, political science, and urban studies, Di Nunzio takes readers on a bold exploration of the meaning of existence, hope, marginality, and street life.
2019-04-15 By Marco Di Nunzio
Conduct of life

The Act of Living

Anita Duhan. The act of iv . 9 Anita Ruhan THE ACT OF LIVING THE ACT OF LIVING Anita Duhan. Front Cover.

Author: Anita Duhan

Publisher: APH Publishing

ISBN: 8176482447

Category: Conduct of life

Page: 300

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2001 By Anita Duhan
Psychology

The Act of Living

What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety Frank Tallis. By Frank Tallis The Incurable Romantic The Act of Living THE ACT OF LIVING What the great psychologists can teach Front Cover.

Author: Frank Tallis

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781408711354

Category: Psychology

Page: 303

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'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian Faulks Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous generations, we have unprecedented access to information, increased personal freedom, more material comforts and more possessions. Yet, even before the shock of Covid-19, more people than ever before were reporting being depressed, anxious or unfulfilled. As our material circumstances become easier, life seems to get harder. Why should this be? Shelves sag under the weight of self-help manuals and the internet is awash with the advice of role-models and celebrity gurus; however, to what extent can these sources be expected to supply meaningful, practical answers - the kind of answers relevant to sceptical individuals living in a modern, technologically advanced culture? For over a hundred years, psychotherapists have been developing and refining models of the human mind. They have endeavoured to alleviate distress and they have offered help to people who want to make better life choices. Although the clinical provenance of psychotherapy is important, the legacy of psychotherapy has much wider relevance. It can offer original perspectives on the big questions usually entrusted to philosophers and representative of faith: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live? In this compelling and important book, the principle contributions of the outstanding figures associated with the practice of psychotherapy are explained: from Freud to Ellis, Jung to Laing, Adler to Hayes. Viewed as a single, cohesive intellectual tradition, Frank Tallis argues that psychotherapeutic thinking is an immensely valuable and under exploited resource.
2021-01-14 By Frank Tallis
Corporations

Description of the Technical Corrections Act of 1988 H R 4333 and S 2238

Under the Act , a qualified cost - of - living arrangement is required to comply with the dollar limits , election procedures , and nondiscrimination requirements of the Act . Limit requirement A qualified cost - of - living arrangement ...

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105110746943

Category: Corporations

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Legislation

Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

This is precisely what is of the Nation for a drastic modification of the cost of living . This is expressly meant by the inflationary spiral . of the Little Steel formula . recognized in the act of October 2 , 1942 .

Author: United States. Congress. House

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ISBN: SRLF:E0000288258

Category: Legislation

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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
1943 By United States. Congress. House
Philosophy

Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life

A more comprehensive review of Aristotle's uses of zōē and bios would have to begin by drawing out more carefully the close verbal attraction of zōē to the act of living. While zōē and bios share the same etymological root, ...

Author: Sara Brill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780192575975

Category: Philosophy

Page: 272

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According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate a form of rule. In the growth of plants, the perceptual capacities and movement of animals, and the impulse that motivates thinking, speaking, and deliberating Aristotle sees the working of a powerful generative force come to expression in an array of forms of life, and it is in these, if anywhere, that one could find the resources needed for a philosophic account of the nature of life as such. Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life explores this intertwining of power and life in Aristotle's thought, and argues that Aristotle locates the foundation of human political life in the capacity to share one's most vital activities with others. A comprehensive study of the relationality which shared life reveals tells us something essential about Aristotle's approach to human political phenomena; namely, that they arise as forms of intimacy whose political character can only be seen when viewed in the context of Aristotle's larger inquiries into animal life, where they emerge not as categorically distinct from animal sociality, but as intensifications of it. Tracing the human capacity to share life thus illuminates the interrelation between the zoological, ethical, and political lenses through which Aristotle pursues his investigation of the polis. In following this connection, this volume also examines — and critically evaluates — the reception of Aristotle's political thought in some of the most influential concepts of contemporary critical theory.
2020-05-21 By Sara Brill
History

The Commentary of St Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle s Treatise on the soul

Every operation which is found naturally in all living things, pertains to the vegetative potency according to which the act of living is primarily in all, as was said; but the act of repro» duction exists naturally in all living things ...

Author: Aquinas Saint Thomas

Publisher: Рипол Классик

ISBN: 9785884198418

Category: History

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The Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Treatise on the soul. Tanslated by R. A. Kocourek.
1949 By Aquinas Saint Thomas
Religion

Summa Theologica Volume 3 Part II Second Section

man virtue that human acts are rendered good; hence, any habit that is always the principle of a good act, may be called a human virtue. Such a habit is living faith. For since to believe is an act of the intellect assenting to the ...

Author: St Thomas Aquinas

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

ISBN: 9781602065574

Category: Religion

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"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 1274), widely considered the Catholic Church s greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinas s masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume III, Aquinas addresses: faith and heresy charity peace and war mercy, anger, and justice prayer truth and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."
2013-01-01 By St Thomas Aquinas
Budget

Budget of the United States Government

Funds are benefits of the second Morrill Act ( 7 U.S.C. 321-326 , 328 ) and Tuskegee used primarily for the ... of the Smith - Lever Act , as amended by the Act of June 26 , 1953 , the Act of living , and community development .

Author: United States. Office of Management and Budget

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ISBN: UOM:39015062012680

Category: Budget

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1984 By United States. Office of Management and Budget
Price regulation

Extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942

an interest in preventing and forestalling as best we can a further increase in the cost of living in this country, because if the cost of living increases, then the standards of living of these disabled veterans who sacrificed part of ...

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency

Publisher:

ISBN: UIUC:30112118020350

Category: Price regulation

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1944 By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency

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