After his promotion to professor , his popularity greatly increased not only in Vienna bs , but also all around Europe . He was an author of a great number of doctorates , and received a great number of awards , including the Oscar Pfizer Prize by the American Society and a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize . Frankl did not stop teaching at the University of Vienna until 1990 , when he became 85 years old . His friends and members of his family established Viktor...

These fundamental precepts are mandatory for every Buddhist and Peter you have to make them an integral part of your life . The Buddha had preached that the practise of these precepts resulted in Nirvana . Buddha refused to expatiate on the term Nirvana . According to Buddhism , both existence and xistence are meaningless . This philosophy is termed as the Fourfold Negation . It is the fundamental concept on which the Buddhist philosophy is based (L .Ross , 2007 . Some very important and basic philosophical...

THE FRANKL PHILOSOPHY AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE Christianity is founded on the ultimate Divine Plan of God in the two great commandments that Jesus Christ espoused : Love God above anything else - and , love your neighbor as you love yourself . And thus , mankind will achieve eternal salvation . To find meaning in life will enable man to pursue the Divine Plan of God . To appreciate that life is not easy and that the purpose of suffering is to make us appreciate its...

The person that the prisoner the prisoner has become was a result of their inner decision and not of the camp 's influences . It is up to man to decide what will become of him . An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize of creativity and enjoyment by experiencing beauty , art , or nature . But an existence of external forces to a creative life are banned to him . Man can either make use or not seek...

Children and young adults can get a deep well of wisdom if they are motivated to learn , and adults will also improve on their wisdom if they do not stop learning . Continuous learning is an important aspect of sustaining wisdom , whereby new information consistently is being added up to one 's well of knowledge which he can process and use to make sound and wise decisions . To be wholly wise , it is important that a person gets out of his...

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I agree with him in as much as suffering is vital in making a person realized his full potential . The only thing that bothers me is that his overemphasis in such makes it look like that the meaning of a person 's life would only exists through suffering that if you do not undergone any miseries then you have not found what life really is . Furthermore , he also points out the power of choice that an individual has in deciding...

Survival of the fittest seemed to be the game in concentration the camp , Levi noticed (Camon , 1989 , p . 20 . In to survive , Levi noted that the prisoners themselves engaged in a fight for inner hierarchy and economics (Camon , 1989 , p . 21 ) marked by conditions where there is little solidarity , and most comrades treated one another as competitors in their quest to survive . A Comparative Reflection Both books actually dwelt on the overarching theme of survival . In fact , both of them...

Inasmuch as these costs will feature unfavorably in the cost benefit analysis , such surveys are not advisable and it is more advisable for the organization to use secondary sources of information in identifying the right consumer segment . This will keep costs down and enhance the profitability of the direct marketing program . The low incidence of response which characterizes direct marketing programs means that the management has to pursue all possible avenues in cutting costs . In the initial stages , the company...

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual (Frankl , 1984 , p .176 . Reaction After reading Frankl 's book , there are various lessons that I had exhausted and gathered with regards to the concepts given . One important reaction to the book is its reenactment of various scenarios present in the book . This not only serves as a good historical piece of evidence but...

Moreover , Cognitive awareness and self-awareness is define to be as the profound characteristics of man (``Man 's Search for Meaning ' n .d . Also , it is considered to be the recognition of the person to know that he is existing as an individual entity (``Man 's Search for Meaning ' n .d . In his book , Victor Frankl had identify three psychological reactions based on the experiences of all the inmates he has been while in the Nazi 's Death Camps . First is...

Logotherapy teaches that ``an emphasis on the human spirit and the notion that self-transcendence represents the height of human potential (Southwick et .al , 2006 , p . 162 . Two chief spiritual aspects are important here : the element of hope and the power of transcendence . On the one hand , Logotherapy sees the inherent value of maintaining an enduring sense of hopefulness to achieve considerable sanity in one 's behavior . Frankl is a personal witness to this . His experiences in the concentration camps enabled...

Platonic thought . In other words , one can find unmistakable similarities between the Christian belief on the dual constitution of reality - i .e , reality has both material and immaterial dimensions - and Plato 's theory of Forms . That being said , it would be wise to state that Christianity espouses an array of this dualistic metaphysics in many of its doctrines . One example would be to cite that , on account of divine creativity and supremacy , the belief in God 's utter distinctiveness from...

West 210-11 . Commerce and the crafts , in all their colourful diversity , gained respect . As they grew in importance , guilds and merchant companies came into being , and succeeded in getting a voice in the administration of the cities , until the cities finally obtained freedom from the feudal overlord , owed allegiance only to the emperor , and were able to form political alliances with other cities . There was no more bondage for the burgher . The main roads met in the cities , which were...

Due to the fact that most liberated prisoners experience intense pressure , the mental health of these individuals is at risk . Frankl relate the condition that these people have with a diver that is immediately released from his or her pressure chamber . He or she cannot just adapt easily with the environment of the outside world . Frankl also narrated the story of his decent friend whose attitude changed wherein he practice the same violence in judgment that he experience from his...