February 2012
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Does Adele's 'Someone Like You' make you cry?... →
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an...
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Your love.
Relevant reflections on Gabriel Marcel’s The Mystery of Being : Faith and Reality, Chapter IX, “Death and Hope”
The objective and subjective elements of the interpersonal Thou do not amount to a distinction, rather, they comprise a unity of the way I regard the Other. The indestructibility of the being I love is not because he is an object of pure abstraction or...
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