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Sterile Place
Bražina, Jan ; Lukáš,, Hofmann (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the study of the boundary between man, the supernatural and the object. The resulting spatial installation and video follow the relationship between the human body and the jwho "inhuman accessories".
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Attitude towards death in Old Norse literature and in its modern adaptations
Bejdl, Tadeáš ; Novotná, Marie (advisor) ; Nešporová, Olga (referee)
This diploma thesis discusses the attitude towards death found in Old Norse literature. Emphasis is placed on primary sources and information from them. The work should show the reader what attitudes which is related to death appeared in Old Norse literature and how they were subsequently preserved in modern adaptations. The work analyzes three different primary sources - The Icelander's sagas (family sagas), Legendary sagas and modern adaptations based on Old Norse literature. Key words: Old Norse Literature, Modern adaptation, Death, Suicide, Afterlife
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Psychological aspects of death and dying
Staňková, Lucie ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor) ; Šturma, Jaroslav (referee)
This theses concern with psychological aspects of dying and death. Its purpose is to comprehend ideas of modern people concerning death and dying (eventually to gain some kind of mental representation of death). Theses consist of two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part concerns at first with death and dying and areas connected to those. Then it covers two quite new areas related to this topic, namely deaht in psychology and various explanations of death including their psychological explanation. The empirical part uses qualitative research (used methods are half-structured interview, free aassociations and marginally also analysis of a drawing) on people's conception of death, their explanation of death and feelings related to the topic, their fears and wishes. The findings are of qualitative character and they were obtained from 28 respondents. The results of empirical part could provide valuable psychological material in the area, that is even nowadays still concidered to be a taboo. They could deepen research in the area that, due to the overall aging of population, would be more and more valuable. Keywords: death, dying, mourning, burial, death in psychology, spirituality, deaht and religion, afterlife, spiritism, near-death experience
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Notions of after-life and meaning of death in Zuni society
Ručková, Eliška ; Řezáčová, Vendula (advisor) ; Kotlík, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor's thesis called Visions of the afterlife and the importance of death for the Zuni Indian tribe is trying to provide a comprehensive view of the funeral rituals and death beliefs among the selected society of the Puebloan Indians. At first, I try to outline the historical background of the development of the Zuni tribe, along with a brief description of the manner of life and religion and its changes, especially under the influence of Spanish conquerors and Christian religion. After that I am trying to put topic itself into this outline. The paper also briefly deals with selected myths that are one of the main sources of ideas about the afterlife among Zuni for this thesis. The thesis devotes most attention to the afterlife along with funerary ritual. The main objective of this work is both to see how ideas about the death of Zuni reflect their society, and what is meaning of death for them. The paper strives to show that importance of death is in the context of maintaining the unity of a society that is so typical for this tribe.
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The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch from the Point of View of Ladislav Klima's own Philosophy
Tichá, Veronika ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojtěch, Daniel (referee)
This work deals with the most famous novel, the Suffering of Prince Sternenhoch, of one of the most controversial Czech authors of first half of 20th century, Ladislav Klima, namely in terms of Klíma's philosophical approach to his literary work and life in general. We derived from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose ideas inspired Klima in many ways. We are comparing the story of love and hate to the theater (David Jařab - first performance at the Divadlo Komedie, Praha 2007) and film (Jan Němec - In the Heat of the Royal Love 1990) adaptation and we are trying to find traces of his doctrine of solipsism and egodeism there, especially in style, composition and main characters. Greater focus was put on the character of Helga, because she represents the most of Klíma's philosophical views. Necessarily, we have touched on the question of will, authority, and the afterlife. Keywords: F. Nietzsche, higher / lower people, solipsism, egodeism, ludibrionism, afterlife, hallucinations, femme fatale
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Between Sheol and Hades: The Shifts in understanding of the Nether World in the Hebrew Bible and in the Septuagint
Zeman, Ondřej ; Sláma, Petr (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
The subject of this thesis is the development of the concept of the underworld and its function in Jewish notion, especially one essential developmental segment - the redesignation of its name from "Sheol" to "Hades" in Hellenistic Judaism. One of the goals of this thesis is to find out to what extent Hades is a suitable term for the translation of Sheol. Firstly, both terms are explained in their original context, Sheol as a realm in which the shadows of the dead reside in the Old Testament cosmology, and Hades as the underworld and god in a purely Greek environment. In addition, several terms related to both concepts are also explained, especially the characteristics of the inhabitants of both realms, their fate after death and the substance of their posthumous dwelling. Since the most important document of Hellenistic Judaism is the Septuagint, the main part of this thesis is dedicated to the analysis of its Greek translations of Sheol and terms related to it. Increased attention is paid to tracking the consistency of these translations and the Greek influences that manifest in them. In the final chapter Sheol and Hades are compared, the elements which they have in common and those which differ, and the results of the analysis of LXX translations are assessed.
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Concept of death in Christianity and in Islam
Otrubová, Ludmila ; Červenková, Denisa (advisor) ; Bouma, David (referee)
The Concept of Death in Christianity and Islam The present bachelor's thesis investigates the approaches to the concept of death in Christian and Islam religions. For the purpose of this work, Roman-Catholic Church and Sunni faiths are compared. The thesis analyses views on death from cultural standpoints - the experience of terminal illness and dying within families and in institutions in this country as opposed to those with Islam faith prevailing, followed by the treatment of death in sacred books, the Bible and the Quran, in both the monotheistic traditions and respective religious authorities' interpretations of death. A substantial section is dedicated to burial rituals - the funeral mass in church with liturgy which are significant for the Christian tradition, and body preparation and the burial itself which are highly elaborate in the Islam tradition. An attempt is made at detecting and delimiting the main differences in burial practices. The work then introduces the various resting places of the dead, studying burial places, graves, tombs and other places of piety in the way they are decorated and the frequency at which they are visited (a matter of ongoing discussion in Islam). The work is concluded by a description of burial practices of Moslems living in the Czech Republic. Keywords...
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Sterile Place
Bražina, Jan ; Lukáš,, Hofmann (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the study of the boundary between man, the supernatural and the object. The resulting spatial installation and video follow the relationship between the human body and the jwho "inhuman accessories".
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Death and immortality of soul according to Platon
JOKLOVÁ, Veronika
The work deals mainly with immortality of soul according to Socrates understanding. The work is describing why is soul immortal and not dying together with a body after death. It is also describing, why it is important to care about soul and not listen to the body's needs, which relates with life after death. The work also mention reincarnation of soul, until it regains feathers. It is also describing the Socrates view of death, his positive understanding about death and why he was looking forward to it. It is describing, why is death the release, but also why it is important to not commit suicide. Also it describes the places, where the souls travel after death. Also I will write about god and his care of human.
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Psychological aspects of death and dying
Staňková, Lucie ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor) ; Šturma, Jaroslav (referee)
This theses concern with psychological aspects of dying and death. Its purpose is to comprehend ideas of modern people concerning death and dying (eventually to gain some kind of mental representation of death). Theses consist of two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part concerns at first with death and dying and areas connected to those. Then it covers two quite new areas related to this topic, namely deaht in psychology and various explanations of death including their psychological explanation. The empirical part uses qualitative research (used methods are half-structured interview, free aassociations and marginally also analysis of a drawing) on people's conception of death, their explanation of death and feelings related to the topic, their fears and wishes. The findings are of qualitative character and they were obtained from 28 respondents. The results of empirical part could provide valuable psychological material in the area, that is even nowadays still concidered to be a taboo. They could deepen research in the area that, due to the overall aging of population, would be more and more valuable. Keywords: death, dying, mourning, burial, death in psychology, spirituality, deaht and religion, afterlife, spiritism, near-death experience
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