Sentences with phrase «actual life of a society»

Needless to say, however, the actual life of a society is not just a playing out of principles.

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In any case, in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of control.

On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.

For, according to Whitehead, a structured society is considered living if it contains a sufficient number of living actual occasions organized into spontaneous nexus which are «regnant» over a much larger number of stable subsocieties of inanimate occasions.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

Central to Process and Reality is a discussion of the order of nature that stems from a variety of societies of actual entities (e.g., material bodies and living organisms).

The derivative notion of «society» is essential to his metaphysics, for it serves to link his speculative conception of actual entities with entities of ordinary experience, such as material bodies and living organisms (including cells and molecules).

The membership of the complex structured society which is the electron is not, properly speaking, any of the subordinate societies or nexus of the electron, such as the personally ordered society, the enduring object, which constitutes the «life» of the electron, but, rather, the individual actual occasions of which these subordinate entities are composed.

And since He is a single actual entity, not a «society» of temporally successive actual entities, like you or me, the various stages of His life will not occur successively in time but will occur or «be given» in one unity of felt immediacy.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

Elsewhere Cobb is careful to specify that both God and man are best characterized as living persons consisting respectively of societies of actual occasions (CNT 188, 192).1 In the present context, consequently, it is clear that we are to understand God to be present in man in the same manner in which one actual occasion is present within another and that this presence concerns the aims at the fulfillment of a concrescing occasion in a living person by the occasions or «prehended data» in its past.

But as a larger vision, the difference between the parties is hard to sustain over the long term, as in fact the actual lives of all members of our society have merged into a generalized drift into nihilistic self - regard.

Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance of a common form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination of the successive subjective aims of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation» of the series by each succeeding term) toward a final end or «satisfaction» of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).

«Consciousness is rather an activity of organization shared serially, and thus continuously «carried on,» by a living personal society of actual occasions» (TVF 44).

Finally, in the third successive issue of Process Studies (28.1 - 2), Duane Voskuil likewise critiques Oomen's hypothesis in the light of his own commitment to a Hartshornean understanding of God as a «personally ordered» society of actual occasions in which there are successive satisfactions corresponding to each sequential moment of the divine life.

More accurately, life is a complex eternal object belonging to the objectifications of successive actual occasions in a special nexus in the interstitial «empty» space of a personal society.

«In - school education should be closely connected in practice with actual social life so that it can transform unconscious living into fully conscious participation in the life of society.

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