{"id":1875,"date":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2009\/01\/12\/mountains-of-the-mind-leisure-thrill-and-the-nature-of-human-existence\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"mountains-of-the-mind-leisure-thrill-and-the-nature-of-human-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2009\/01\/12\/mountains-of-the-mind-leisure-thrill-and-the-nature-of-human-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mountains of the Mind&#8217;. Leisure, Thrill and the Nature of Human Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Object\/Territory: I chose to study the sport of mountaineering with reference to the historical development and change in attitude towards it. I essentially wanted to provide a philosophical explanation behind the reason people take part in such a high risk sport. <\/p>\n<p>Philosophers and Concepts: Immanuel Kant and Burke- The Theory of the Sublime Jean- Paul Sartre- Existential Freedom and Authentic Existence. Vertigo Theory. Martin Heidegger- Dasein, Being-towards-death. <\/p>\n<p>By using the above philosophical concepts I intend to explain what makes mountaineering so appealing to the human mind and how these attitudes have changed over the course of time. I will take into account the history of the sport and the changing attitudes that have resulted in the change from a leisure activity to one that seeks a deeper, more satisfying thrill factor concerning human endurance. Ultimately I want to demonstrate that mountaineering provides fundamental experiences that are vital to the human condition and to our sense of self-understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Wardall, 2009, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,22,123],"tags":[34,339,239],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-540","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-heidegger","tag-risk","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}