Sentences with phrase «many of her abstract»

For Bob Sutton, leadership is not a set of abstract principles and behaviors but an expression of human comedy and tragedy.

We become mired down in a maze of abstract content.

Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the US — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of unions (union density remains high).

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

Start with the elements of Abstracts: what's the problem, what are failures of previous solutions, and what's the extra mile of your solution.

Romano Guardini had already foreseen this: «The gadgets and technics forced upon him by the patterns of machine production and of abstract planning mass man accepts quite simply; they are the forms of life itself.

Then he used their private key for the formation of an abstract pattern using the algorithm which allowed for private aesthetic changes as long as not to affect the validity of the secret code.

The ability to gather a wide range of abstract informational pieces, and then string them together to identify a trend or investment opportunity is invaluable if you want to remain ahead of the game.

Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the U.S. — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of unions (union density remains high).

a neo-classical version created by Abraham Lincoln, who in the Civil War «re-baptized the United States a teleocracy, a nation governed by its pursuit of an abstract idea, a nation with a purpose - driven life»;

We have been slaves to an idea of an abstract God for thousands of years and now that we finally realize it, we are becoming slaves to reason.

Eistein and Spinoza's concept of God was more of an abstract, pantheistic concept — not the anthropomorphic, anthropocentric ideal espoused by the Abrahamic religions.

Yes, it's no good David going off into the higher realms of some abstract theology and leaving his congregation behind.

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

For one thing, it means one isn't Jean - Paul Sartre, the «archetypal example» of anti-political, «literary politics,» a manner of «engaging with political life that deliberately... ignored reality and that preferred to remain on the level of an abstract theory or a kind of pure, contentless moralizing.»

To chadg76 who said, «I can't believe that any rational human capable of abstract thought and objectivity believes any of this man made garbage.»

It is most illuminating that Taylor's pantheistic or pagan Catholicism gibes more as a description of a practical production than an invention of abstract reason.

As with the apple - tart, then, God's love for this particular occasion is really his love for this sort of occasion inasmuch as the occasion instantiates one of the abstract patterns valuated in the primordial nature.

Because of its abstract character, this discussion can not settle any specific conflict between natural preservation and economic production.

The micro-genesis of an object is a microcosm of its birth, life and death, a surge of the object into actuality out of abstract, timeless potential.

If it should be true, as Carol Gilligan has argued, that men are drawn toward a morality of abstract justice and women toward a morality of connected webs of caring, and that neither of these taken by itself constitutes the whole of the moral realm, then mother and father together — but in different ways — may inculcate and transmit moral value and commitment.

Perspectives in Philosophy Volume 1: A Critique of an abstract Scholasticism and principles towards replacement

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

The prioritizing of abstract principles and alleged or imagined biblical truths over the complexities of real life was an easy path for me to take.»

defender of abstract knowledge and deductive methodology against the scientific method through his theory of a priori innate ideas.

The fourth division, which is called the correlative of the abstract attributes, is made up of present participles of the abstract attributes of the third division — powerful (overpowering), willing, knowing, living, hearing, seeing, speaking.

Concerning God, Clement pursued two fundamental principles: that God is beyond the reach even of abstract human language and therefore must be identified by what God is not, but that, at the same time, God must be understood as «the omnipotent God» (Stromata, 1.24): «Nothing withstands God, nothing opposes Him: seeing He is [42] Lord and omnipotent» (1:17).

Those with limited tolerance for schematic arguments may find in the above but the dry bones of a dogmatic skeleton of abstract ideas.

Its function lies not in the fact that it is conceptualized for purposes of an abstract definition, but in the fact that it is successively incorporated in an immanent way into the actual occasions that constitute the society.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

Finally, insofar as a mechanistic understanding of nature and a pragmatic conception of truth are the correlates of the abstract individual and the liberal notion of freedom as power, even a Newtonian understanding of nature, reason, and freedom will eventually destroy the foundations for the rationality of natural law, as reason is reduced to the calculation of forces and law becomes an extrinsic imposition.

Just as science must constantly revise its models so as to surmount the deficiencies of its abstract (usually mathematical) models of nature, so also religions are called upon continually to revise their enigmatic representations of cosmic significance in keeping with primary perceptions intuition of an ongoing cosmic adventure.

Hegel is all too Blakean in understanding the Crucifixion as the sacrifice of the abstract and alien God.

Since we routinely use the framework of abstract three dimensional geometry to describe, measure, predict and position real world objects the distinction between the conceptual and the actual gets lost.

But what we are trying to describe, by each of these abstract terms, is essentially dependent for its reality upon the continuous functioning of the total organism, with all its essential physical organs and biochemical processes.

In my belief that a large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, I have loaded the lectures with concrete examples, and I have chosen these among the extremer expressions of the religious temperament.

For then you separate him out of the abstract mass or public, and he becomes an individual.

It is more of an abstract philosophical intellectual exercise.

Is it possible that his rejection of «This structure as bare possibility» reflects some anxiety on his part about a possible but undeveloped connection between idealism and the role of abstract possibility in the primordial nature of God?

But we Catholics are living in an actual Church and not in a cloud cuckooland of abstract ideals, hence we must bear with her when she is trying to confront our time cautiously, yet with courage.

God's passivity in terms of his abstract existence is absolute and necessary, for nothing occurs which does not occur in his experience also; in terms of his concrete actuality his passivity is contingent and relative for it depends on what actually occurs to be experienced.

Since there are no eternal objects or pre-existing forms in Hartshorne's view, the function of the abstract pole of God can not be solely one of the valuation of such entities as it is for Whitehead.

We can say that the partialist fallacy, a commitment of which mistakes the evaluation of some abstract aspect for an evaluation of possible actions as wholes, is the fallacy of misplaced concreteness as it appears in moral theory.

And in part, this is because the inclusion of the abstract is the inclusion of an aspect of God that is not consistent with those emotions and experiences that are contained in the concrete aspect of God.

Hence, the relation of prehension could be construed as a sort of abstract entity, namely, a universal.

But because the data of conceptual feelings are eternal objects or abstract forms of definiteness, the relationality is one of abstract pattern rather than of concrete particulars.

It lies in the very nature of intelligent beings that they function as amphibians able to operate conjointly and concurrently both in the realm of concrete experience and in that of abstract thought.

Such an understanding would raise the probably unacceptable paradox of the abstract's having power over the concrete.

Because all language involves a process of abstracting certain elements in experience out of the total complex in which they occur, it is necessarily analogical and therefore imprecise: a word never refers to an absolutely discrete entity.

Accordingly, the thesis that a nexus can be formed thus through the mediation of an abstract entity is termed «abstractivism.»