The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.

Zusammenfassung

Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements.

Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold.

The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment.

Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Gerald Rivas, Dorothea Olkowski, Evgenia Cherkasova, Bruce Ross, Rebecca M. Painter, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Raymond J. Wilson III, Peter Weigel, Annika Ljung-Baruth, Lawrence F. Rhu, John Baldacchino, Rajiv Kaushik, Jaimie Jadovitz, Enrico Escher, Martin Holt, William Roberts, Munir Beken.

Inhalt
Section I.- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre.- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero.- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought.- Section II.- Virtues of the Heart.- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean.- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead.- Section III.- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues.- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues.- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium.- The Virtue of Responsibility.- Section IV.- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man.- Beyond Adaptation.- Between the Ironic and the Irenic.- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia.- Section V.- Art and Awareness.- The Image in the History of Thought.- The Narrative Model.- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 15851672.- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.