Living Beyond the Other
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This article attempts to bring philosophy to clinical psychological practice by applying philosophical concepts to autobiographical experience. Through reflective engagement with personal narratives, the author tells three personal stories to illustrate ways in which the concept of Dasein in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas's development of an ethical responsibility to the Other, in tandem with thanatology, helped the author come to terms with existential dilemmas evoked by the deaths of others.
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The most basic research in the area of human science is the research about human beings and people, while the first introduction to the immense concept of people is facing independence towards defining this concept because we feel the instances of it every day. Lack of attention in human recognition can prevent us from reaching generalized results and therefore, will lead us to transient decisi...
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