Escalating mores : Eleytherias i Thanatos

Cheryl A. Lapp, Adrian Carr, Claes Gustafsson, Alf Rehn, David Sköld

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[For the premodernist, a symbol is indicative of “a natural law of value reflecting a reality that appears to exist in its own right and on its own terms” (Ashley, 1997, p. 3). So, this columnar representation of the ontological procession meant that man alone could not achieve transcendence: he was but one part of an inevitable natural process; concomitantly and ostensibly, equally integral relative to others. Man, woman, birth, death, infinity is one symbol of ontological process. In premodern times, one could be secure in the fact that all of these symbols of physical and psychological states constituted ontological truth or at least stability. Not only did people know they were going to die, they also knew it was likely they were going to die sooner than later.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationExcess & Organization: Proceedings of SCOS XXIII: Stockholm 2005
    PublisherRoyal Institute of Technology
    Number of pages21
    ISBN (Print)9171781137
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    EventStanding Conference on Organizational Symbolism -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceStanding Conference on Organizational Symbolism
    Period1/01/06 → …

    Keywords

    • ontology
    • life
    • death
    • individualism
    • modernism
    • symbolism

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