Despotism is staging a comeback, propped up by a — not the — Yoruba media,
which objectifies its permutations and predilections through a virulent antipathy for Ndigbo.
Man appropriates the world in a human way: his relation to it is no longer a means to an end outside himself but an expression of his entire being, in
which he objectifies himself without losing himself.
A hybrid physical feeling is a feeling
which objectifies the actual entity which forms its initial datum by means of one of this datum actual entity's conceptual feelings.
It prehends the world from a certain perspective, one that can be determined from the relative fullness with
which it objectifies the other actual entities it takes as its data.
Looked at from the point of view of its prehension of past occasions, an actual entity (say, in the personally ordered society of actual entities which constitute the «self» of a human being) can be viewed as conditioned by, caused by, the other entities
which it objectifies.
To this point, ZOG theory and the pervasive anti-Semitism
which it objectifies have planted only the weakest of roots in the militia movement.
The «actual entities» or «actual occasions» are complexities which «have a grasp on each other,»
which objectify each other, and which partially integrate and interpenetrate each other.
3) He picks at themes of humanizing
that which we objectify, even using fun visual nods to the seductive artifice of movies to slide between time spans, but he can't truly abandon blandly by - the - numbers storytelling.
I've referred to them as «the Narratives that guide our lives» — the stories through which we fundamentally interpret and explain our place in the universe and society, and
which objectify our values and sense of what are right and wrong actions.
Not exact matches
For the attained actualities of the external world are
objectified within C [the regional standpoint of C], and these «objectifications express the causality by
which the external world fashions the actual occasion in question» (PR 489)» (327).
The only thing diminished is the concrescing occasion
which no longer can
objectify the datum; but even this presumes (falsely) that the occasion «exists» at an early stage possessing the datum,
which is lost to a later stage.
How does it
objectify itself, if not by imposing its own «satisfaction» in terms of a unified set of feelings upon the regional standpoint
which it occupies within the spatio - temporal continuum and therewith upon all the subfields to
which it belongs?
This theological perspective has a profound implications for the correction of the scientific epistemology,
which tends to regard as the objective and
objectifying process, although nowadays there are efforts to correct this situation among the scientists and philosophers of science.
We are allowed this latter statement because, as Bennett says, «the consciousness in question is not the
objectifying «awareness of» by means of
which we attend to data, but the «awareness with» by
which much of our experience is lived» (PS 3:42).
Or a conplaint similar to the ones above,
which either
objectify the woman (commenting on her appearance, clothes, or even, yes the size of their breasts!)
Whitehead denies to what is «
objectified» any «formal» existence, by
which he means, that
which formally constitutes entity.
Perhaps little can be said, but this transition
which originates a new process / whole must be carefully distinguished from the creative process
which originates a new object / part, a one of many that is
objectified in others.
In any case «creativity,»
which takes the place of «primary matter» and
which is supposed to be in itself just as indeterminate as the latter, constitutes the actuality of an actual entity» — its reality for itself and finally, as an «
objectified» entity, its reality for others.
Of course a perspective on the epistemic situation of a given actual entity A is available from the perspective of another actual entity B in
which A is
objectified.
Her argument against this position, as best I can discern and summarize it, is that each new divine occasion would in turn be irresistibly
objectified or «superjected» (she uses this as a verb) back into the world,
which would «bind the present irrevocably to the past, to sacrifice spontaneity and autonomy at the altar of necessity» (p. 164).
Kraus's complaint about Hartshornean theology is that on this view «God would be compelled to perform successive redemptive acts» (p. 163)
which would in turn be
objectified back into the world.
The objective datum is a further perspective under
which that entity is
objectified through one of its feelings (PR 353 - 56; 361 - 63).
One way to reconcile the difficulty is to allow that persons act through influencing the self - creation of actual occasions, to allow that a person is grounded in an astronomically large number of occasions as
objectified in comparison to the single occasion on the cutting edge of the creative advance through
which a person lives, endures, acts.
What is given in any act of experience occurs in a context of relationships
which are not themselves completely
objectified.
John Cobb uses the expression «creative transformation» as the most generalized statement of the tale
which the divine proposition,
objectified in Jesus, presents:
Also, such macroscoptic occasions could not be imperceptible because they are only privately
objectified, or because they fail to exemplify common characteristics
which are causally transmitted from one occasion to another.
These statements give something of the flavor of this early theory: «the first stage of the process of feeling is the reception into the responsive conformity of feeling whereby the datum,
which is mere potentiality, becomes the individualized basis for a complex unity of realization» (PR 113C).3 Or, later, «The
objectified particular occasions together have the unity of a datum for the creative concrescence» (PR 210C).
We never
objectify an object except in an interpreted form, and this is because we
objectify objects only by making them constituents of our own processes in
which they must be selectively harmonized with other constituents.
Today more than ever before we feel the need — and also see a greater possibility — of
objectifying the problem of the subjectivity of the human being... [W] e can no longer go on treating the human being exclusively as an objective being, but we must also somehow treat the human being as a subject in the dimension in
which the specifically human subjectivity of the human being is determined by consciousness.
Yet we can
objectify the tooth from the toothache and so can a dentist who «extracts not the toothache but the tooth,» (IM 4)
which is the same tooth for both dentist and patient.
To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we
objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision
which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.
But the seat of existence from
which these forces were viewed, and in some measure
objectified, could not be identified with any of them.
On the other hand, B may prehend A in such a way that the fact that it is A
which it is prehending is of paramount importance for the subjective form of B rather than the particular aspect of A by
which A is
objectified.
«Indeed, there is a language of faith in
which existence naively expresses itself, and, corresponding with this language there is also a science that speaks of existence without
objectifying it to worldly being.»
The fact is that duration of self - enjoyed becoming — that moment of passage in
which the past actual world is prehended and
objectified in a new way for the use of the future.
This is because eternal objects can not convey a sense of the individuality of the past actual entities
which are being
objectified by a new actual entity (see PR 229f.
A new actual entity does not select the feeling by
which it will
objectify God.
Individuals who are excessively dominated by powerful emotions
which flood the self can
objectify those emotions by reflecting upon them in conceptual experience.
Thus, a new actual entity «selects» the feelings by
which it will
objectify past actual entities only in a very restricted sense of the term «selects.»
In the case of a simple physical feeling X belonging to a new actual entity A, the feeling Y by
which X
objectifies the past actual entity B is called the «objective datum» of X. Whitehead describes this second subphase in the following passage:
Instead, God determines the feeling by
which God will be
objectified by the new actual entity (see PR 244 / 373f.).
By contrast, the feelings involved in objectification can express the way in
which past actual entities are
objectified as individuals.
But the value of the nursing breast as a symbol of God's provision might need to be reconsidered in our own time, a time in
which the technological capacity for, and interest in,
objectifying women's bodies contributes to eating disorders among young women as well as to rape.
This sense of significance returns to the temporal experience of the immediate human subject, who is
objectifying its world,
which includes God (PR 350 / 532).
In this
objectified knowledge man accepts himself and surrenders himself to the mysterious judgment of God
which takes place in the unreflected act of his freedom.
In the poem the fact of separation is not only acknowledged, but the terms in
which it is
objectified are named with stunning precision.
He will worship some object, some person, some thing — at worst, he will
objectify himself and worship that —
which then becomes for him his «god.»
Thus, innumerable feeling - greenly's are negatively prehended and all but one occasion in the sequence through
which feeling greenly allegedly flows are
objectified under eternal objects different from green.
In a strand of really distinct actual entities, these would necessarily stand in a subject - object relationship to one another, so that the entity that perishes and is
objectified is a different entity than that
which is coming into being.
We had, essentially,
objectified our fellow human beings,
which struck me as the opposite of a healthy, Christlike engagement of sexuality.