Sentences with phrase «acted upon all»

Suffering in its widest sense means the capacity to be acted upon, to be changed, moved, transformed by the action of or in relation to another.

The US Is not all «Christian» we have MANY religions here and so this isn't religious on the American side, i «ts about dismantling a theocratical government that was intent upon doing evil, and then acted upon it.

The power to act is a condition of love; but it follows that the capacity to be acted upon, to be moved by another, is also required; for to act in love is to respond, and to have one's action shaped by the other.

To be completed in and by another is to be acted upon by that other.

This meaning of suffering as being acted upon is essential here entirely apart from suffering as the undergoing of pain, although of course pain is one form of suffering.

In a decade of declining church membership, retrenchment and pastoral surpluses, it is imperative that these expectations be heard and acted upon.

(2) Unlike Descartes and flume, Locke distinguishes ontologically the object that initiates change (or has «active powers») from the object receiving it or being acted upon; this asymmetry Whitehead adopts as well.

Entropy, when acted upon by external forces, such as gravity, will allow smaller mass to coalesce into more complex and larger objects.

acted upon; influenced.

Love is always a relationship; and a relationship involves two who are in it — God to man, man to God — in which each of them is not only acting in a causal manner but also being acted upon in an affective manner.

The Nazis did not invent, but they ruthlessly acted upon, the notion of lebensunwertes Leben, life that is not worthy of life.

Its corollary, in Aquinas, is «passive» or receptive power, the capacity to be acted upon.15 As pure act, God is active only.

I hope the threat is acted upon and succeeds.

Unfortunately, their beliefs have been acted upon and affect us all.

Time for them to take that last breath and send a warning to their far right fringe that we as Americans are not going to sit idly by and allow inhumanity to be acted upon.

We got the poorly designed, budget - busting act because the sensible ideas he and others put forward were never acted upon by the Republican Party, which has approached the problem of universal health care coverage and financing with its head, well, let's say, in the sand.

Justice was not done here and instead Aisling, who acted upon the injustice she had witnessed, was punished.

That is to say, man is not, as pure naturalism would have it, merely an object in nature which is acted upon and reacts according to fixed general laws, a passive receiver of prior causes and a non-willing, non-responsible transmitter of future effects, whose consciousness and action are completely caught up in the causal nexus of matter and time.

But even so, the church has still retained, through all the long centuries of its history, a lingering conviction that Jesus was primarily a Teacher; and it has steadily acted upon this haunting assurance in preferring the Gospel of Matthew, above the others, in its liturgy.

It is obvious that a corollary is the recognition that love is always a relationship; and a relationship involves two who are in it — God to man, man to God — in which each of them is not only acting in a causal manner but also being acted upon in an affective manner.

The concepts which have been rejected can not do this, for they seem all to place that existence in a position where it is acted upon but can never react to deity.

In other words, the subjective moods and motivations of these individuals become an external reality in the form of concrete symbols that can be discussed or acted upon.

In medical care, for example, it is being found that prescribed treatment given by a doctor is often not acted upon by patients because the doctor's diagnosis conflicts with the patient's self - diagnosis which is frequently influenced by media sources including talk shows and even soap - operas.

But if suffering means being acted upon or being conformed to another in a relationship, then its diversity and complexity begin to appear.

Perception is certainly an activity for the Greek, but it also essentially involves passivity, i.e., being acted upon and altered by the entities of the physical world.

He did not press the point, but there was no need to do so since when he came on the scene it was generally accepted that sensing is «a sort of being acted upon.

And this brings us now to the first Aristotelian characterization of sense perception: sensing is a type of «being acted upon.»

Perception for Aristotle does involve being acted upon physically and being changed by natural agents, but sensing is not explained by these bodily transformations alone.

The immanence of the thing perceived in the percipient, for Aristotle, is the result of the percipient's «being acted upon» by the object.

If the biblical imperatives concerning the poor and the hungry are clear, it has been less clear how those imperatives are to be acted upon in the life of the church.

Sensing, therefore, for Aristotle, is an activity that presupposes passivity or being acted upon and physically altered — the passivity of matter — and the passivity of pure receptivity — the passivity of a psychic potency, the actuality of which is a psychic activity.

That Aristotle included in some forms of sensing experience an awareness of being acted upon becomes fairly obvious when we compare his account of sight with that of touch.

Was the NRB and its report simply a ploy in a public relations strategy, or will it be received and acted upon in advancing a program of authentic Catholic reform?

Was Aristotle's claim also based on an awareness of «being acted upon»?

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

For Aristotle, being acted upon is being passive: sensing thus implies passivity.

Darwin told him that blacks and Jews were less evolved, and he acted upon it.

He ACTED UPON his SCIENCE - BASED tendencies of «reason» and «logic».

The reaction of nature is a blindingly flashing red - light that man's actions are unnatural; that he need be true to his inner demands, which acted upon automatically set a proper balance within human consciousness and adjust the physical conditions in the entire creation around him.

Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you; the creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the sun does not willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon; the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God's enemies.

By using restriction enzymes, it is possible to open up a plasmid (a self - replicating circular piece of DNA) and then match it up with a piece of DNA from any source that has been acted upon by the same enzyme.

Thus in this concept «action at a distance» is readily explicable, since the point acting and the point «being acted upon» can both share a common component, namely the line they have in common.

In verses 24 - 26, we are reminded about how Moses took God at His word and acted upon it.

Second, if acted upon, will it lead to better living for ourselves and others?

They can suffer and be acted upon.

To say that God did not suffer seemed a strange doctrine; yet to affirm it meant that he can be acted upon.

The issue between these two orientations was not so much discussed as acted upon.

27 Love necessarily involves suffering, which may well occur when one allows the consequence of [223] being acted upon by the other, wherefore Williams wrote of the «suffering love of God»:

It is entirely possible that, at a time when very important decisions have to be made and acted upon for the good of humankind and the planet as a whole, far too many people will focus their attention on their own immediate vicinity and insist on claiming their individual right to act within it as they wish.

In verse 8, we read about how God told Abraham to go on a journey, and Abraham took God at His Word and acted upon it.