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animalism

the doctrine or belief that man lacks a spiritual nature

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Also, we aim to spark a greater awareness of the disorder and hope to foster a great leap forward, both in understanding and treating Reverse Animalism for the sake of our society and the increasing number of people afflicted with this troubling disorder.

Party animal: the strange and savage case of a once erudite and eloquent young man

Thus, a large part of the territory can be covered by looking at samples of the following types of theory: emergence, supervenience, (3) constitution, and animalism.

Aristotelian hylomorphism and non-reductive materialism

WILD: Fashion Untamed" presents a historical and crosscultural examination of mankind's obsession with animalism as expressed through clothing.

Fashion's untamed wild side: whether in the form of pelts, plumes, prints, or animal symbolism, faunal apparel long has represented one of man's more primal instincts

suggest the principal conflict (betrayal) and support the main comparison and contrasts (cold and heat, servility and dominion, animalism and spirit, will and intellect, health and disease, material contentment and spiritual pain).

'Of the dark past': the brittle magic nation of Joyce's poetics

I disliked it for its apparent reduction of the complexities of human sexuality to a mindless, loveless animalism, but perhaps that is its point and perhaps its final minutes relate significantly to this.

Notes on the Toronto Film Festival

McCann refuses to sanitize or romanticize sexuality's raw animalism.

Gay back when: the spellbinding new English novel As Meat Loves Salt is a sprawling tale of a 17th-century soldier who discovers his love for men

Magennis concludes that virtually every instance of eating in Old English poetry is a sign of depravity, animalism, or monstrosity (p.

Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature

Edna's joy from smashing the vase sheds light on her deliberate seduction of the dilettante Alcee Arobin; Alcee appeals to "the animalism that stirred impatiently within her" (p.

Dangerous spending habits: the epistemology of Edna Pontellier's extravagant expenditures in The Awakening

If sincerity is to justify one in exploiting the lowest traits of human nature; and in ignoring that sense in man which Cicero says differentiates him from other animals--his sense of what is decent--then sincerity is to pander to a torpid animalism.

The Crisis Reader

When Napoleon and Squealer leave the rest of the menagerie in the barn for the more comfortable environs of the farmhouse, and develop a taste for alcohol, against the edicts of animalism, they simply rewrite the rules to suit themselves.

TV MOVIE MENAGERIE; `ANIMAL FARM' RATES THE BEST OF THE FLOCK

Epicurus demonstrated that adopting a hedonistic perspective need not imply a life of crude animalism.

Materialism: The construct, measures, antecedents, and consequences

Because he feels deeply and moves deeply, he injects male dancing with both exquisite grace and a Nijinsky-like animalism.

Classical Purity, Romantic Ardor

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