At what moments are certain truths about things revealed to us with particular clarity?

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What four examples of depersonalization does Crosby present?

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What truth about the human person are those defending these 'depersonalizations’ recognizing?

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What truths about the human person are missed in the process?

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How does Karol Wojtyla approach the human person?

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Agere Sequitur Esse

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What are the two ‘opposites’ of personal acting?

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What do the opposites (coercion and blindness) reveal to us about what it means to act as persons?

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How must obedience be re-understood in regards to acting as person?

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How must solidarity be re-understood in regards to acting as person?

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How do ‘person’ and ‘nature’ play into acting?

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Define communicable

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Define incommunicable

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What is the problem with the pro-life Beethoven argument? (p. 69)

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Do relations with persons and beings (e.g., pets, relics, parents, etc.) increase the incommunicability of their being? If yes, what must we be careful to understand clearly?

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What are Guardini and Newman trying to say in the quotes cited on p. 51?

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Does a universal law contradict the incommunicability / uniqueness of persons? Why would it? And why doesn’t it?

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Does incommunicability make interpersonal communion possible?

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Existence

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Essence

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What does it mean that essence and existence are incommunicable?

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Isn’t essential incommunicability’ an oxymoron? What does ‘oxymoron’ mean?

Why would ‘essential incommunicability’ be considered an oxymoron? And why isn’t it?

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How is incommunicability connected with the worth/dignity of the human person? Is it possible to recognize the latter (dignity) without the former (incommunicability)?

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First stage of the prisoner

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Second stage of the prisoner

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Third stage of the prisoner

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What is the deepest freedom of man according to Frankl?

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Explain Nietzsche’s quote and why it becomes so important for Frankl?

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The last stage of the prisoner is curious. What is Frankl’s take away about man?

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What do we learn about freedom in and through Frankl’s psycho-analytical perspective?

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Logotherapy

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Give an account of Descartes’ goal in the Meditations and how he goes about attempting to achieve it.

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What is the conclusion Descartes arrives at regarding the mind, the body, the human person in general?

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How would you use the term ‘intentional’?

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What does intentional/intentionality in the philosophical sense mean?

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What is the egocentric predicament? (p. 2 of the article) Where have we seen it occur?

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How does what we know of the brain seem to reinforce the egocentric predicament? (2)

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How does phenomenology respond to the egocentric predicament?

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What is the Aristotelian/cosmological understanding of the human person that Wojtyla refers to (p. 210-211)

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What can easily escape the Aristotelian and Cosmological view?

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What do we need to attend to so as to become more mindful of the ‘irreducible’ element in the human being (212)

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How do Wojtyla and Descartes compare (similarity) and contrast (difference)?

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What is the good news with Descartes’ position?

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Love

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Moral Conscience

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The problem with scapegoating

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the problem with prostitution

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the problem with breeding

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the problem with slavery

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Scholastic Axiom

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coercion

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blindness

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Examples of activations

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Acting is

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Persons act as persons by acting

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non aguntur, se per se agunt

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