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A bust of Zeno of Citium, considered the founder of Stoicism.. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. [1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life.
Stern spent the final five years of his life in exile due to increased antisemitism in Germany. He spent one year in Holland before moving to the United States to accept a job as a professor at Duke University, despite knowing little English. Stern was the uncle of the Jewish philosopher, literary critic and theorist, Walter Benjamin.
In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes. Some researchers point to association of temperament with formal dynamical features of behavior, such as energetic aspects, plasticity, sensitivity to ...
Stern: the rear of a ship (opposite of "bow"). [1] Topside: the top portion of the outer surface of a ship on each side above the waterline. [1] Underdeck: a lower deck of a ship. [21] Yardarm: an end of a yard spar below a sail. Waterline: where the water surface meets the ship's hull. Weather: side or direction from which wind blows (same as ...
Daniel Stern considered Winnicott's sense of "going on being" as constitutive of the core, pre-verbal self. [39] He also explored how language could be used to reinforce a false sense of self, leaving the true self linguistically opaque and disavowed. [40] He ended, however, by proposing a three-fold division of social, private, and of ...
Adolph Stern (1879- 20 August 1958 [1] or 22 August 1958 [2] [3]) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is credited with providing the first formal account of what he termed “Borderline Group,” which later became known as borderline personality disorder.
The torpedo stern or torpedo-boat stern describes a kind of stern with a low rounded shape that is nearly flat at the waterline, but which then slopes upward in a conical fashion towards the deck (practical for small high-speed power boats with very shallow drafts). [12] A Costanzi stern is a type of stern designed for use on ocean-going vessels.
Self-directedness is a personality trait held by someone with characteristic self-determination, that is, the ability to regulate and adapt behavior to the demands of a situation in order to achieve personally chosen goals and values. [1] It is one of the "character" dimensions in Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). Cloninger ...