Sentences with phrase «as individual consciousness»

We've seen a number of artists exploring the merits and consequences of the modern way of life, probing how it has affected inter-human relationships as well as individual consciousness.

Not exact matches

Oppression Claimed to be systemic and part of group consciousness, as well as individual acts, that disadvantage certain social groups.

If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

First, one must unequivocally renounce one's individual selfhood as the center and ground of consciousness and experience.

It serves now as a transitional period for a future cosmic fullness of the sacred, Altizer states: «We can not understand the «Unhappy Consciousness» unless we realize that it too, like the «Dark Night of the Soul,» is a transitional state between an individual and particular realization of the truth and the reality of Spirit, a realization whose very particularity demands a chasm between itself and Spirit, and a universal and total epiphany of Spirit which obliterates this chasm.

If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of holiness of life.

This isolation of man from the flock, from the mass, from the crowd and the heightening of his consciousness as an individual which the Eternal accomplishes is a central theme of Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing.

In children's television, self - consciousness about heroism can be reflected in the show as a whole, as well as in individual characters.

But, to say it once again: This dialogue is conducted in the hope of an ever new reconciliation be - tween the individual and the collective consciousness; nevertheless, it may easily - be replaced by a theological monologue unless the theologian accepts the indisputable faith of the Church also as his own condition for this dialogue.

Eternity will draw out before his consciousness, all that he has done as an individual, he who had forgotten himself in noisy self - conceit.

(30) Ellul urges, instead, emphasis on individuals, «humans [who would] combine into new patterns not under «la technique's» tutelage, [a] reordered consciousness [which] would begin choking out today's monolithic structure - within communications as elsewhere.»

This theme recurs in Maxine Greene's writing, as she points to the inherent link between the individual's consciousness and the social reality, a link that is fostered by narrative teaching.

It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.

The empirical dimension of religious experience is founded on a sensitivity to what Whitehead has discerned as the value matrix of existence, whose religious meaning is grasped in the moment of consciousness which fuses the value of the individual for itself, the value of the diverse individuals for each other, and the value of the world - totality.

They teach us that there can be no such thing as community without unity of consciousness, collective action free of individual greed, humility and respect for the other and as much concern for the other person's welfare as for our own.

As we have said, human endeavour, viewed in its natural» aspect, is tending towards some sort of collective personality, through which the individual will acquire in some degree the consciousness of Mankind as a wholAs we have said, human endeavour, viewed in its natural» aspect, is tending towards some sort of collective personality, through which the individual will acquire in some degree the consciousness of Mankind as a wholas a whole.

When I think of myself as an individual, I think of that thread of consciousness that I can recall from the past and anticipate in the future and with which I can identify myself.

When the seat of existence shifted effectively to reflective consciousness, a new type of continuity between successive occasions of experience arose as well as a new separation of the individual thus constituted from all other individuals.

Key concepts in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being, ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.

They are certainly recognised in Western legal systems and... worldview (s); however... (human) consciousness... can not itself actively determine what is good and what is evil (and)... these freedoms are essentially thought of as mere individual prerogatives.»

The Bible is viewed not only as an historical or canonical document, but as a description of the individual soul's journey of spiritual development and commentary on what happens when different states of consciousness interact with one another in the collective drama of human existence.

The macrocosm of human collective consciousness is regarded as inseparable from the microcosm of individual thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs.

Each individual is seen as a co-creator of the collective consciousness, and is therefore personally accountable for contributing to the world condition.

And this, it is to be noted, came not through some heaven - rend mg voice or awful theophany, but within the individual consciousness, as our better nature, comprised of the in - dwelling divine wisdom, strove against our brute ancestry, ever warning.

And so it is to ask of a man that he shall render account of his life as an individual when one allows him to lead his life outside this consciousness.

The centers of consciousness, acquiring autonomy as they emerge into the sphere of reflection, tend to escape from their own phylum, which granulates into a line of individuals.

What at the very beginning made the first man, was, as we know, the heightening of the individual consciousness to the point where it acquired the power of Reflection.

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

If we start with consciousness as a blank slate that then evolves (whether as an individual or as a species) to adapt to the necessities of its self - preservation (as an individual or as a species), we will never get to an argument for the goodness of fidelity, fecundity, etc..

In fact, the individual's consciousness of salvation occurs only in those moments where there is a sense of belonging to a larger body comprised of others and the entire universe as they are collectively being brought into unity by God.

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

The concept of God and individuals as autonomous and self - contained is a unique product of the Western consciousness.

Accordingly, at a later stage in the evolution of consciousness, we find it operative in individual poets, enabling them to intuit relationships which their fellows have forgotten — relationships which they must now express as metaphor.

Does it not suggest that this is a general law of life; that the living creature, compelled for its own survival to attach itself materially and spiritually to others of its kind, and to an increasing extent as it progresses autonomously and in individual freedom, is automatically prevented by Nature from rising above a given level of emancipation and consciousness?

As reacting against my will, an individual must exist external to me, and I must therefore conceive of it as located outside my consciousnesAs reacting against my will, an individual must exist external to me, and I must therefore conceive of it as located outside my consciousnesas located outside my consciousness.

In The World and the Individual, Royce sharpened his description of an idea as «any state of consciousness... which, when present, is... viewed as at least the partial expression or embodiment of a single conscious purpose.»

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

As an individual gradually claims and develops the neglected dimensions of the unconscious and integrates these balancing aspects with consciousness, the destructiveness of the reclaimed dimensions is transformed so that they feed the creativity of the person's inner life.

Portraying the individual choice to abort in this way, as a step toward freedom for the entire human race, invites women to see the sorrow they feel about their own abortions as part of a false consciousness instilled by a society determined to repress female sexuality.

Whitehead even considered consciousness as the «last and greatest» of the «elements by which the selective character of the individual obscures the external totality from which it originates and which it embodies» (PR 15/22).

the statement (of Marx) that history can be explained only by class consciousness is a statement of fact, as far as previous history is concerned, not an expression of Marx's disregard of the individual.26

This cointensification of world - consciousness and the experience of solitariness, which Whitehead identifies as religiosity and which he sees as consistently pursued by advanced religions, shows the way to the mediation of the individual world and the universal world.

The criticism contends that television, along with its many technological and social byproducts, is altering consciousness to the detriment of individuals and society as well.

All these strategies are finally (and, indeed, rather soon) self - liquidating, as they rob the religious enterprise of whatever plausibility it still has within the consciousness of individuals.

How long one shall continue to drink the consciousness of evil, and when one shall begin to short - circuit and get rid of it, are also matters of amount and degree, so that in many instances it is quite arbitrary whether we class the individual a once - born or a twice - born subject) Unquestionably, some men have the completer experience and the higher vocation, here just as in the social world; but for each man to stay in his own experience, whate'er it be, and for others to tolerate him there, is surely best.

Even Blair chose to avoid «Marxistant» societal analysis, so as to liberate the individual from the confines of class consciousness and rigid, collectivist boundaries.

How consciousness is produced influences such issues as when we can regard fetuses as individuals and whether courts can hold us accountable for our actions