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- Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:30 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4632
Re: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
@Questionmark - you are right that the relationship between our homes and identity could well be the other way round and what I am interested in how does it change a person - morally, psychologically and pathologically. While I haven't yet considered the angle of material belongings in a home, e.g. ...
- Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4632
Re: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
Looks very promising. Thanks, uwot!
- Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:48 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4632
Re: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
Thanks Bill. Yes, I'm specifically considering forced homelessness and exploring it in context of poverty, to be more specific, homeless children/street children. Having not grown up with a "home" environment do they view the world differently? Theirs is, of course, a different world but a...
- Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:21 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4632
Re: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
Thanks Bill. I have gone through those. While they provide quite a bit of information, its more a factual aggregation of things. Still very useful though, but I've exhausted the leads I have got from there and still hungry for more 
- Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4632
Meaning and importance of "home" and "homelessness"
I looking to understand the idea of home. Specifically, how does growing up in a home make us different from not having lived at home. I am trying to explore this through the idea of (1) homelessness, and (2) peripatetic living. I'm struggling to find any significant material to read/learn about thi...