Sentences with phrase «as absolute reality»

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@ Skip — Absolute reality «as we know it».

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Rubenstein can teach the Christian that the God who stands aloof from the history of nations is the God who stands aloof from Auschwitz, and that the price of accepting a dehistorized or subjective God (the God who is absolute Subject and only Subject) is the abandonment of the objective world or reality as such to the realm of «flesh.»

science is not everything, the problem is when the critical and objective philosophy of science is accepted as absolute in reality.God is beyond logic at this point of our consciousness, The process of gods will manfistation is evolution which accepts all variables in the process, the input could be not what scienctists wants.Thats why faith or religion is part of reality.

As a result, «even within the radius of several feet,» there is an «absolute split between one's sense of one's own reality and the reality of other persons.»

The fellowship of the body of Christ is incomparably the most precious thing in Christianity, as it is also its absolute and substantive reality.

He, like Whitehead, will have a «dipolar» God, but in a different way.10 For Hartshorne, the dialectic is between the abstract and the concrete: «The supreme in its total concrete reality will be the supereminent case of relativity, the Surrelative, just as, in its abstract character, it will be the supereminent case of nonrelativity — not only absolute, but the absolute» (DR 76).11 These two poles are not said to be separate entities but are, rather, aspects of a unified divine essence.

In essence the reader becomes a part of the novel as experienced; the logos irrupts momentarily into reality where to some degree the reader's potential is actualized in the absolute present.

Does this new emphasis on a «radical» and «substantive» evil mean that we can no longer place Buber in that middle position which regards evil as real but redeemable, thus refusing to ascribe to it an absolute and independent reality?

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

Beginning with a Nietzschean analysis of Greek thinking and literature which sees the distancing of the numinous as the center of the Greek experience, this book attempts to demonstrate that the higher expressions of religion in both East and West revolve about an absolute antithesis between religion and reality, wherein religion can only truly and finally realize itself by an absolute negation, dissolution or annihilation of reality itself.

Although «here the eternal word is opposed by eternal contradiction,» this is not to be understood as a metaphysical statement implying the absolute and independent reality of evil.

There are differences, thirdly, as to the nature of the object — whether it is material reality, thought in the mind of God or man, pantheistic spiritual substance, absolute and eternal mystical Being, or simply something which we can not know in itself but upon which we project our ordered thought categories of space, time, and causation.

Granted, we might say that the proposition «if x is an intellect, then x distorts reality by spatializing it» is an analytical truth akin to «if x is a bachelor, then x is unmarried,» and Bergson would even accept this (CE 270), so long as we are simply drawing implications about things we have already defined.12 But Bergson does not treat any definition as unrevisable, absolute or permanent.

When he enters into such a forum as this and continues to declare, in absolute terms, HIS FAITH is the «truth» and the «reality» he is open to challenge.

He may also reply that, since panpsychism is the proper view of reality, a universe devoid of minds is the same as absolute nothingness.

The text is not «a contextless absolute,» but a bold, responsive, assertive, imaginative act that stands as a proposal of reality to the community (Brueggemann).

But, in accordance with our earlier argument, he must not do this in such a way that the operation of absolute Being in providing a ground of the new and increasing reality is inserted side by side with the causal efficacy of the finite cause as though fundamentally it were itself a part cause.

This totality is at once nothing and all things: all that is not equal to anything could be called nothing but it embraces particular things and for this reason it could be viewed as positive nothing, absolute reality.

The latter provides meaning through combining concepts which the former would regard as logically inconsistent — for example, that Absolute Reality be known as both «being» and «nonbeing,» as «here» and «not here,» and as «God» and «man» (Emptiness [Abingdon, 1967], p. 81).

He is communicated so that there is no longer absolute dependence on the communicator, though in this case as in all others our personal relation to the reality is never a lonely one, without companions.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

Hence, Absolute Reality should really be known as «being - nonbeing,» «here» «not here» and «God - man.»

Prior to Kukai's teacher, Hui - kuo, Dainichi was symbolized as one of a number of sambhogakaya («body of bliss») forms of absolute reality called dharmakaya («Dharma» or «Teaching Body») that all Buddhas comprehend and manifest when they become «enlightened ones.»

Moreover, as Hegel makes clear in the Phenomenology of Spirit, even within the human organism it undergoes many stages of growth before it reaches full self - consciousness as a participant in the reality of Absolute Spirit.

The expression may seem paradoxical: dictatorship means that there is a top - down imposition, while relativism implies the denial of absolutes and reacts against anything it considers as «top - down», such as truth, revelation, reality, morality.

God is seen not as primarily the «unmoved mover» or «first cause» or «absolute reality,» but as the supremely related one.

All parties to this act of interpretation need to understand that the text is not a contextless absolute, nor is it a historical description, but it is itself a responsive, assertive, imaginative act that stands as a proposal of reality to the community.

In terms of such process thinking (about which I have written in Process Thought and Christian Faith, Macmillan, 1968), God is not thought to be simply the absolute, self - existent, unconditioned reality; there is a sense in which these terms are applicable as adverbs qualifying God's essential nature — but that essential nature is God's concrete love, his unfailing relationship with the world, his self - giving and willingness to receive from that world, his openness to «affects» from the world and from what goes on in it.

According to Hartshorne, an all - inclusive, pure actuality such as Hegel's is the least absolute reality there can be.

For apart from what process theology affirms as the absolute presence of God there would be no ground for the ultimate reality and responsibility of the individual.

If God is indeed so conceived, then, to be anything real at all is either to be God or to be a creature of God whose difference from God can not be absolute; for to be absolutely different from God would be to be absolutely different from reality as such, and so not anything real after all, but simply nothing.

There is also the opposite danger that failure to accept the reality of choice, a fatalistic acceptance of absolute determinism, may lead to such slackening of individual and social effort as to bring about the end of civilization.

The judgment that one particle of matter is spatially separated from another may be true in a sense but false when taken as implying an absolute separation in reality.

Hegel started from the belief that, as he said of the French Revolution, mans existence centres in his head, i.e., in thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledge.

Paul Tillich enunciated the «open Christian» commitment to freedom in that «Protestant principle» which, as he wrote, «contains the divine and human protest against any absolute claim made for a relative reality, even if this claim is made by a Protestant church.

This seems to entail viewing the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as only one among many manifestations of that one absolute reality known so much more fully and adequately by Hindus.

Unlike the Marxian future, as represented by the vacuous «Noch - Nicht - Sein» of Ernst Bloch, the absolute future of Teilhard de Chardin possesses an already existing reality whose personal character influences every phase of human development.

My actual view, as an Idealist, is that material or physical things are the expressions of spiritual reality, so I do not want to make an absolute gap between the two.

We could see it was consistent mediocrity, but more on the side of absolute failure than success, and as soon as we got some top managers in our division, absolute failure has unsurprisingly become reality.

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.

Classical certainty ceded its stewardship of reality to the probabilistic rule of quantum mechanics, even as the parallel revolution of Einstein's relativity displaced our cherished, absolute notions of space and time.

Einstein's theory states that time and space are not absolute but relative: time runs faster in high altitudes but slower at fast velocities, as can be measured in the mountains or with satellite clocks; and space can be curved by the gravity of large masses, as was proven in the 1919 solar eclipse when star positions near the Sun seemed to have «shifted», but in reality only the light rays had been curved by the Sun's mass.

It just provides a taste of the gut - wrenching decisions Mr. Zapruder has to make while grieving for his beloved President; and the shock of Oswald's brother as reality hits; the jaw - dropping delusions of Oswald's mother; the absolute frustration of the CIA and FBI agents knowing their historic failures will be their legacy; and the disparate emotions that enter the operating room with Kennedy and Oswald.

But as Ducournau looks at those excesses committed on the cusp of adulthood, she creates opportunities to explore and comment on so many upsetting realities, and does so with absolute fidelity to her core metaphor.

The reality is that critical factors associated with learning reside on a continuum that we can continue to improve as long as we are educators — not just a set of absolutes.

Lanier is known as the «father of virtual reality», and his book is an absolute must - read for anyone working in the digital space.

Breton believed in the future resolution of dream and reality into surreality, the reality he regarded as absolute.

The artist has metamorphosed everyday objects such as leaves, bones, containers and white paper, into curious and fragile porcelain sculptures which no longer retain their absolute function in reality.

By presenting such a complex cosmos as her own, Johnson challenges the accustomed thought that reality is constant and absolute.