James Leonard Park
Encyclopedia
James Leonard Park is an American author and existentialist philosopher from Minneapolis, Minnesota
.
Park has authored eleven other books dealing with topics ranging from achieving authentic existence, to human sexuality
, to commentary and analysis of religious texts such as the Biblical Book of Romans.
He is highly active in the Unitarian/Universalist church
, and he also teaches at the University of Minnesota
.
He leads an active community on Yahoo Groups entitled "Existential Freedom".
Much more will be discovered about him by searching the Internet for "James Leonard Park".
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
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Career
His major work, entitled Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death, attempts to outline the existential malaise felt by many human beings. It also poses that though the malaise is all-pervasive for those who recognise it, one can be released from it by working to achieve an authentic existence, and by completely abandoning all defense mechanisms against it. He calls the state of being released from the predicament "existential freedom." Existential freedom, he maintains, is a "gift," though from what or whom he does not specifically say in the book.Park has authored eleven other books dealing with topics ranging from achieving authentic existence, to human sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
, to commentary and analysis of religious texts such as the Biblical Book of Romans.
He is highly active in the Unitarian/Universalist church
Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....
, and he also teaches at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
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He leads an active community on Yahoo Groups entitled "Existential Freedom".
See also
- American philosophyAmerican philosophyAmerican philosophy is the philosophical activity or output of Americans, both within the United States and abroad. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while American philosophy lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and...
- List of American philosophers
Much more will be discovered about him by searching the Internet for "James Leonard Park".