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The Narrative of John Smith (2011) is a novel written in 1883 by Arthur Conan Doyle, published posthumously by The British Library. In a work of narrative fiction, Doyle writes from the perspective of a middle-aged bachelor named John Smith recovering from rheumatic gout .
John Smith (1618, Achurch, Northamptonshire – 7 August 1652, Cambridge) [1] was an English philosopher, theologian, and educator. Life. Smith, educated at Oundle ...
Writing for Literary Hub, author John Freeman called Smith "one of our finest short story writers" and said, "The compression and swiftness of these tales are opposite skills to the ones Smith has plied in her five, wondrously different novels. Yet to watch these tales unfold is to feel a gladness that only virtuosity—and emotional depth ...
Smith continues by arguing that people feel pleasure from the presence of others with the same emotions as one's self, and displeasure in the presence of those with "contrary" emotions. Smith argues that this pleasure is not the result of self-interest: that others are more likely to assist oneself if they are in a similar emotional state.
In Sullivan’s Travels, this artist is filmmaker John Sullivan (Joel McCrea), a master of lucrative comedies who wants to make a gritty, true-to-life drama about American poverty.
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by philosophers Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The texts range from early philosophical and fictional musings on a subject that could seemingly only be examined ...
The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience. The earliest form of the Self in modern psychology saw the emergence of two elements, I and me, with I referring to the Self as the subjective knower and me referring to the Self as a subject that is known.
The great Dame Maggie Smith, an iconic actress with a career that spanned eight decades and earned her two Oscars, seven BAFTAs, four Emmys, three Golden Globes and a Tony, passed away on Sept. 27 ...