Sentences with phrase «system as»

In the meantime, we have the choices to avoid the system entirely, to try to alter the system, or to accept the system as it is.

... if Man organizes himself gradually on a global scale in a sort of closed circuit, within which each thinking element is intellectually and affectively connected with every other, he will attain to a maximum of individual mastery by participating in a certain ultimate clarity of vision and extreme warmth of sympathy proper to the system as a whole.

19: 5 - 6 to undergird a particular economic system as this passage does monogamous marriage.

In this respect the characterization of Whitehead's system as «conceptual poetry «6 and the demand for a «de-mythologizing» (SPPI) of the «actual entity» seem justified.

She is currently working on an anthology concerning approaches to environmental problems with a biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical system as a foundation for environmental ethics in Environmental Ethics 8/3.

For the very presupposition of a totality of interrelated conceptual forms appears to exclude the possibility that one could introduce entirely new categories or significantly alter the dynamic interrelationship of existing categories without undermining the pretensions of the system as such to absolute knowledge, knowledge of an intelligible whole.

These theorists conceive of a system as a set of interdependent parts.

I can't define a closed system as a system where energy is coming in.

I'm sick of this c r a p. Athiesm is as much of a belief system as religion is.

Fascism isn't an economic system as much as overall societal framework.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

Last year over 10,000 pre-teenaged boys were processed through the Texas court system as «status offenders» (juveniles apprehended for offenses that would not have been offenses if committed by adults).

Nothing so clearly unveils Hegel's system as an apocalyptic system as does this ending, but such an ultimate ending is unique to apocalypticism, for even if it parallels archaic visions of eternal return, it wholly differs from all primordial vision in knowing an absolute and final ending, an ending which is apocalypse itself.

Within the system as such there can be nothing higher, for love knows nought of systems.

He said he would like to see them develop as much fanaticism about the United States political system as young Nazis did about their system during the war.»

Johnson lays out in chilling detail the ways in which imperial overstretch imperils the American republic and what's left of our democratic system as well as the American economy.

Morrison much admired Thomas and shared most of his views, but he regarded the two - party system as essential to American government, corrupt and self - seeking though that system might be.

Some respected professional journalists do not see these failings as the mere result of personal turpitude but rather as deep structural and cultural problems within the American system as it exists today.

Furthermore, when the Israelite prophets come on the scene, nearly all of them decry and condemn the sacrificial system as not at all reflecting what was in God's heart.

On the whole, those who favor decentralization also want to shrink the system as a whole, forcing more of the poor to fend for themselves.

The heavy indebtedness that became a crisis around 1980 was due, not so much to the failure of the system as to the rapid increase in the cost of oil and the abrupt rise in interest rates.

Until recently the political parties themselves played a role similar to that of the system as a whole.

Whatever works best, because the worst thing that will happen is we'll see an erosion of the public school system as each religious sect starts its own school board (and there goes integration).

Instantly dismissing another's belief system as «fantasy» is much closer to discrimination than 90 % of what I have seen here.

Having never been the victim of prejudice, he tended to be judgmental about those who could not and did not make it within the system as he did.

There is a real danger that we might come to equate success in the economic system with a successful life, that we might come to identify the material rewards of the system as our goal in life and the source of meaning for us.

It is important to note the political basis of an economic system as one of our basic dichotomies because there is a very real difference in the foundation of a capitalism in which the rules governing the system are determined by a few — rules concerning wages, monopolies, taxation, use of natural resources, government benefits, etc. — and one in which these rules are determined by representatives who are chosen by the general populace.

Starting with a hypothetical individual who experiences a requirement for some form of all - embracing meaning, Berger imagines the emergence of a religious symbol system as a result of this individual interacting with others in similar circumstances.

I read this and my first reaction was that with chumbalons like this fella it is no suprise that our university and education system as a whole has fallen far behind the rest of the world.

Ambedkar was very forthright in declaring the separateness of Dalits from the caste system as the means of their liberation.

The system as a whole transcends the policies of any one party, nation or era.

The current international system has its ideological roots in the Enlightenment and is closely tied to the advocacy of such a system as a way of achieving what Kant called «perpetual peace.»

The model is designed to emulate that system as closely as possible or affordable.

Thus leaders of most major parties and officials tend to support the global capitalist system as there seems to be no reasonably viable alternative to it (and for them) in the short term.

Although he interprets Whitehead's ideal for a metaphysical system as being «a super-deductive system» (PW 40/34), Mays realizes that Whitehead had some severe remarks to make about the deductive method in philosophy (PR 9 - 12).

Funny how most credible historians credit the Judeo / Christian value system as being a major factor in the foundation and success of modern Europe and the Americas.

We also judge that some species have more intrinsic value than others, and this is important even when they are not so important for the system as a whole.

And here there is love — love for the system as it stands, with little if any concern for a transformation of values.

That being the system's intention, there are three questions we obviously can pursue: a) Does the system as system have integrity in that its concepts are so defined as really to serve as criteria?

It is an interesting exercize to look back at your belief system as you evolve as a person, and as a Christian.

Computer teleconferencing uses a computer system as a place where people may exchange messages.

He recognized, as we have seen above, that the laws about tithing were for Jewish people living in a covenant relationship with the God of Israel, and with the Temple and the priestly Levitical system as one of the central symbols of that covenant.

Thus the system as a whole would endow each activity with the maximum meaning and value, and each activity would give value to the whole.

Then the value of each would be its meaning for the system as a whole, i.e., its functional activity in sustaining and improving the total system.

Intimate, interior, spiritual communion with God flourished in association with the temple ritual; it found there encouragement and inspiration; it even used the sacrificial system as a trellis to grow upon.

Wooldridge characterizes the reticular system as the establisher of an optimal signal - to - noise ratio, so to speak, upon which higher levels of experience are staged:» «Volume - control» signals are generated in the reticular system to reduce our sensitivity to uninteresting or irrelevant stimuli and thereby permit us to achieve the peculiar but highly useful phenomenon of mental concentration» (4:143).

A series of directions and some of the measures proposed, could appear identical for defenders of the system as such and for its critics.

The main things I think that Jesus was «bypassing» was the priestly class as mediators between God and man, the sacrificial system as the method for receiving forgiveness of sins, and the Temple as the locus of God's presence.

But the system as a whole remains subject to an «initial condition» which Deleuze himself consistently demands be excluded.

Karl Marx, and others with a heart, felt the need for a revolutionary humanization of the system as inevitable and morally mandatory for the dignity and decency of the human person.