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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3]
10 gru 2020 · According to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who sadly passed away this year, this hope “at the heart of Judaism” was “so fundamental to Western civilization that we take it for granted, yet it ...
Baruch (de) Spinoza [b] (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.
24 kwi 2017 · Hope is difficult to pinpoint, but on some level I think we know “hope” when we experience it. According to Frankl’s observation regarding a higher death rate after Christmas, hope is a choice. Hope, it appears, is capable of sustaining life.
He died on 30 October 1913, when Hannah was seven, leaving her mother to raise her. [21][29] They lived at Hannah's grandfather's house at Tiergartenstraße 6, a leafy residential street adjacent to the Königsberg Tiergarten, in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Hufen. [30]
9 sie 2018 · Edith Stein (12 Oct 1891 – 9 Aug 1942), was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun after reading the works of the reformer of the Carmelite Order, St. Teresa of Avila.
The idea that hope is a virtue is found in the Bible. The case for hope as a virtue was argued by Thomas Aquinas and by the medieval Jewish philosopher Joseph Albo. This chapter explores Aquinas and Albo's teachings about hope.
