He revolutionised the Victorian work ethic: instead of work being about duty and responsibility, he articulated it in terms of 'the ultimate aim of human existence: self-actualisation'.
His discussion of three biblical texts, all relating to the final aim of human existence, are especially important.
Throughout Ibn Tibbon's writings, he returns time and again to a few key problems: divine providence, the possibility of immortality, and the final aim of human existence.
In order to give a sense of Ibn Tibbon's philosophical exegesis, I'll briefly describe his original writings, then single out a few specific examples relating to a single problem: the final aim of human existence.
The island's La Caleta beach is home to a hippy commune whose inhabitants have chosen to live with as few possessions as possible, embracing a simple existence with the aim of being at one with nature.
But the Kama Sutra ends with a cautionary note against being carried away by the art of love and neglecting one's duties to the other aims of human existence, worldly success and religion.
Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely, soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings - the sea, mountains, clouds, the open sky - Gurov thought how in reality everything is beautiful in this world when one reflects: everything except what we think or do ourselves when we forget our human dignity and the higher aims of our existence".
This paper reports detailed simulations of adsorption and desorption of argon in closed end slit pores with the aim of investigating the existence of hysteresis.
It was applied in a theoretical setting to the case when the group orbit is a torus of square patterns [31] or hexagonal patterns [32] with the aim of showing the existence of robust heteroclinic cycles under certain conditions.
A population model was applied in this work to evaluate the relationships among Tnt1-derived elements in Solanum, Lycopersicon and Nicotiana with the aim of testing the existence of a unique master copy.
