In alternating chapters the reader learns about Watson's brief, youthful service as a pilot during World War II and his harrowing experiences as a P.O.W., his postwar marriage to the nurse who accepted what torture had done to his "basic equipment," his religious vocation and sustaining friendship with a few fellow survivors of that terrible camp.
According to Hegel, philosophy's vocation is to bring these basic categories to the fore, to discern and critically assess them.
Beginning with a basic epistemological point, Leibowitz's scientific training and vocation led him to take a positivistic approach to knowledge claims.
Stone's drama delivered the basics perfectly well: Nightingale's disruptive sense of vocation, her dread of domestic confinement, the excellent political connections that allowed her to survive the hostility of Army generals in the Crimea, and her determination to press through reforms after the war.
The EU's commitment to basic human principles means that it has a communal vocation that is broader and more universal than that of a multinational federation.
He sees his vocation as educating nonexperts, and this is his ninth book, synthesizing "basic information in a readable manner" with captivating personal profiles: a Russian viceroy to the Caucasus, Mikhail Vorontsov; the "frontier Gandhi," Abdul Ghaffar Khan; the C.I.A.'s Kermit (Kim) Roosevelt, a grandson of Teddy and a Kipling devotee.
Whether Stenson embodies the underlying truth of the governmental position in the sense that his thinking performs a distillation to the fundamental assumptions of neo-Foucaldian critique, or represents a deviation from the vocation as suggested by Dean, there is likely to be a basic difficulty with this school of thought.
Simone de Beauvoir revealed herself as a woman of formidable courage and integrity, whose life supported her thesis: the basic options of an individual must be made on the premises of an equal vocation for man and woman founded on a common structure of their being, independent of their sexuality.
Throughout history, we've always found ways to make our basic survival require less of our human focus, and we've witnessed subsequent booms in new professions — specifically, vocations that didn't relate directly to merely subsisting, but thriving.
Some basic understanding of mathematical structures is a necessary precondition for everyday life as well as for virtually all vocations, and thus, it is an indispensable criterion for the successful pursuit of personal goals.
