Thinking and the Sense of Life

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• Acknowledgments
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• 1. Preface
• 2. Theoretical Considerations
• 2.1 Sense and the meaning of life
• 2.2 Is “Sense of life” a matter of thinking?
• 2.3 The concept of “Sense”
• 2.3.1 Etymology
• 2.3.2 Levels of “Sense”
• 3. Empirical Research
• 3.1 Test-population
• 3.2 Test-Design
• 3.2.1 Pre-remark
• 3.2.2 Test
• 3.3 Results of tasks 1 and 2: Sense of life
• 3.3.1. Task 1: Stepping out or not? Jumping into another role?
• 3.3.2 Task 2: Sense of life or not?
• 3.3.3 Correlation between tasks 1 and 2
• 3.3.4 “No-sense Items” 2.1.1 – 2.1.13
• 3.3.5 Summary of “no-sense items”
• 3.3.6 “Yes-sense Items” (sense-supporters)
• 3.4 Results of task 3: Cognitive abilities
• 3.4.1 Frequency of lines and selected concepts
• 3.4.2 Qualitative evaluation of students’ explanations
• 3.4.3 Quantitative evaluation
• 3.4.4 Summary of task 3
• 3.5 Results of task 4
• 3.5.1 Frequency of lines per person
• 3.5.2 Explanation of lines
• 4. Correlation between Tasks
• 4.1 Groups of students to be examined
• 4.2 Results of correlation “thinking ↔ sense” (tasks 3/4 with 1/2)
• 4.2.1 Task 3
• 4.2.2 Task 4
• 4.2.3 Genders
• 4.2.4 Germany/Japan
• 4.2.5 Specific areas of task 4
• 5. Postface: Educational Consequences
• 5.1 Empirical basis of a “sense for all”
• 5.1.1 Task 1
• 5.1.2 Task 2
• 5.1.3 Task 3
• 5.1.4 Task 4
• 5.1.5 Conclusions of the empirical data
• 5.2 Theoretical reflections on a “sense for all”
• 5.3 Educational Perspective
• 5.4 Final Conclusion
• 6. Literature