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Accepting change : becoming less human

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    Creator (cre): Li, Peggy Y.
    Advisor (adv): Frierson, Patrick
    Advisor (adv): Davis, Thomas
    Department (dpt): Whitman College. Philosophy Department
    Date
    May 9, 2018
    Graduation Year
    2018
    Abstract

    This work investigates the relationship between erotic love/desire and anxiety, as thought of by Plato in The Symposium, and Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety. Anxiety and erotic desire turn out to be parallel experiences that provoke greater human progress. Although such feelings of anxiety or desire are uncomfortable, accepting change turns out to be an essential and necessary part of the human condition.

    Subject
    Plato -- Symposium
    Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Begrebet angest -- English
    Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Kærlighedens gerninger -- English
    Love
    Desire
    Anxiety
    Progress
    Change
    Humanity
    Philosophy
    Academic theses
    Whitman College 2018 -- Dissertation collection -- Philosophy Department
    Genre
    Theses
    Extent
    68 pages
    Permanent URL
    http://works.whitman.edu/440
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