One does not have to walk long in the hallways of schools to see that something is very wrong. We search in our students for the passion and enthusiasm for learning that they possessed before entering school. Instead, we find idle bystanders content to remain distant from formal instruction and from their hearts. Too often they remain dazed, passive consumers window shopping the mall of educati...

BACKGROUND Because beliefs about the soul after death affect the dying experience, patients and survivors may want to discuss those beliefs with their healthcare provider; however, almost no medical research describes such beliefs, leaving healthcare professionals ill prepared to respond. This exploratory study begins the descriptive process. METHODS Assuming that culture is key, we asked old...

THE MEDICAL WORLD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Lester S. King. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1958. 346 pp. $5.75. This book by Dr. King is a collection of essays which is concerned with the complexities and variables which influenced the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, and the efforts of this discipline to progress as an art and a science. The rise of modern patholo...

F. J. Burnell,1,2,3 Jiangping Hu,4 Meera M. Parish,5,6 and B. Andrei Bernevig1,5 1Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA 2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 3All Souls College, Oxford OX14AL, United Kingdom 4Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA 5Princeton Center for Theoreti...

the immortality of the rational soul is one of the most important issues of ibn sina’s philosophy and anthropology. he poses many arguments in proving this subject. ibn sina proves the immortality of rational soul by not having relation or position of the intelligible concepts, indefinite power of the rational soul in his actions as well as its needlessness to sensible faculties in some of its ...

Neurosciences are extended into a broad field, where the scientific observation and research join harmoniously the imagination, the intuition, the philosophy, the critic analysis, the enthusiasm and the skepticism, opening new horizons in the theoretic perspectives and offering new motivations for research, on the bases of an advanced multi-dimensional intellectuality. From the Era of Pre-Socra...

TRYING TO EXTRACT SOME COHERENT view of narcissism from the ongoing controversy in the current psychoanalytic literature is somewhat like trying to chill Russian vodka by adding ice cubes; it is possible to do it, but the soul of the experience is diluted. Levenson's (1978, p. 16) suggestion that "it may not be the truth arrived at as much as the manner of arriving at the truth which is the ess...

1'11~ idea that mental experience may leave residue in the soul, or mind, that allows later remembering of the experience is as old as recorded history, and probably older. The idea that this residue is physical, somewhere in the brain, 8% more recent, having been first proposed by Robert Hooke (1627-1703) who ~hought that memory is 'as much an Organ as the Eye, Ear, or the Nose', and 1Iii11 it...