Sentences with phrase «as organic whole»

This therapeutic approach does not isolate an individual patient, but rather it takes account of the family as an organic whole, whatever form that family group might take.

Thinking of family law dispute resolution as family restructuring rather than family breakdown allows «family» to be treated as an organic whole that changes and evolves over time as new family members are added through birth, adoption, marriage and remarriage; as parents separate and the family transitions into new domestic arrangements; and, as existing family members are subtracted through abandonment, estrangement and death.

Like a good compilation album it sticks with you as an organic whole and should reward repeat viewings.

CLIF CRUNCH is a line of crunchy granola bars made with 70 % organic ingredients, such as organic whole grains for a lightly - textured crunch.

My concern is to show that in each of the several topics to be considered — Christianity as an organic whole; the fact of evil known to every one of us; the meaning of human personality in itself, in its familial, and in its social aspects; and the religious community — becoming and belonging must be taken with utmost seriousness.

The history of salvation as it consummates in Christ, must be presented as an organic whole, in which «all things do hold together» in Christ» (Col. 1:17) and in which the personal, authoritative revelation of a personal and transcendent God comes to its fulness in the Incarnation of God, personally in the Eternal Word, made esh for us men, and for our salvation.

This definition of Tradition implies that it must be viewed as an organic whole even though it contains a dogmatic center.

The process of maturing involves a movement from viewing situations as a collection of equally relevant facts to seeing the world as an organic whole in which only certain parts are relevant at a given moment.

Not exact matches

Conceived as a kind of online - only Whole Foods combined with a Costco - like warehouse club model, Green and fellow co-founder Gunnar Lovelace created the organic delivery company just two years ago.

But with Amazon's promise to make price - cuts and consumer preferences generally veering towards healthy, organic foods, grocery store investors likely fear that Whole Foods could cut deeper into the market shares of traditional grocers like Kroger — as well as their suppliers.

The company said Whole Foods Market will continue to operate under that brand name and pledged to «preserve its high standards and commitment to providing the finest natural and organic foods,» and John Mackey will stay on as CEO of Whole Foods, which will remain based in Austin, Texas, where it was founded in 1978.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

But changes are expected to be especially noticeable at Whole Foods, the organic grocer that has been derided as «Whole Paycheck» because of high prices (remember the $ 6 asparagus water?).

Butterball announced that for the first time it will be offering organic whole turkeys, as well as an organic version of the ground meat.

As noted by senior executives at Rodale, just having an organic landscape can improve the health of the whole employee population, through reduced use of chemicals from lawn maintenance, while creating a space that is more engaging, educational, and productive.

Whole Foods has emerged in recent years as a fast - growing grocer by focusing on organic food and pricier items in neat, appealing stores.

The online giant's move to slash prices on everything from organic baby kale to fair - trade bananas on the same day its $ 13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. closes showed the «high - velocity decision making» Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claims as his hallmark, and sent shares of Kroger Co., Costco Wholesale Corp. and Wal - Mart Stores Inc. reeling Thursday.

Even a company as bottom - line obsessed as Walmart has singlehandedly doubled the market for organic food — by selling billions of dollars worth of it to people who, for the most part, never shop at Whole Foods.

Still, it's not as if Whole Foods was charging more for organic responsibly farmed salmon or organic baby kale because it hadn't considered that maybe customers would prefer to pay less.

Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001), a British astronomer said that this was «an outrageously small probability, that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup (as evolutionists have proposed).

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

The very phrase, a «philosophy of organism,» used by Whitehead so often to capture the tenor of his approach, remains a challenge to attend to the interconnectedness and interdependence which deserves to be appreciated as contributing substantively to any organic whole.

I shall return to how he suggests we understand value arising from what is being called, in his peculiar way a «society,» but the point from Adventures of Ideas is clear enough: however we learn to appreciate the status of a complex whole comprised of constituents, it must be construed in a manner which permits that complex whole to serve in turn as constituent within a larger and more complex level of organic whole.

Asking what sorts of value nonhuman creatures might have, Warren writes: «The environmentalists» answer is that they are valuable as organic parts of the natural whole.»

Their own intrinsic value is that of being organic parts of biotic communities, and ultimately, of nature as a whole.

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

The individuals in these groups, moreover, are regarded as cells of an organic whole rather than as persons interacting with each other in relations some of which are of a more and some of a less determined nature.

The advantages of this metaphor are the combining of elements of structure (apostles and prophets as the foundation, Christ Jesus as the cornerstone), sequence (from foundation to complete temple), and organic growth (the whole structure is joined together and grows).

Its sociality, as a result, becomes largely «technical dialogue» with the social understood either as an organic, objective whole or as the mere communication and interaction between human beings who may in fact relate to each other largely as Its.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

Some philosophers and biologists thought so; in fact, the so - called finalists contended that organic evolution as a whole was designed to bring man into existence.

Kaplan maintains that God is the creative process which transforms the chaos of the universe into an organic whole: «Nature is infinite chaos, with all its evils forever being vanquished by creativity, which is God as infinite goodness» (REN 51).

The element of creativity, which is not accounted for by the so - called laws of nature, and which points to the organic character of the universe or its life as a whole, gives us a clue to God's transcendent functioning.

They are mentioned here only as a reminder that any model functions in a total network of ideas and attitudes which form an interrelated and organic whole.

We must first achieve an inner relationship to this whole world; then we will be able to grasp the inner necessity, which rules here as in any organic structure and which, of course, is also involved in the problem of the relationship of content to aesthetic form.

The religious significance of Zionism becomes indisputable when one realizes that «to raise the Jews from a disintegrated and fragmented mass of individuals into an organic unity, whether it be the unity of the Jewish people as whole, or any part of it, is to create the conditions that make the Jewish religion possible» (JC 329).

This line of philosophy shaped his search for the vision of the cosmic whole as a developing organic totality.

Solovyev is trying not only to see the universe as the developing organic whole, but also to find a new axiological dimension, which is obviously very important for humanity.

Second, there are basically two organic forms: the vegetative and the animate, the lower of which manifests a type of «collective» individuality, («a tree is a democracy,» as Whitehead is fond of saying); and the higher animate form, in which the whole manifests a centrally unified field of experience wherein «subjective» individuality is the norm.

Pluralist societies tend to view persons as individuated selves with rights and duties, who may form or leave independent political, social, business or religious associations; but socialist societies incorporate the self into an organic whole that guides each self and controls independent groups and associations.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

But within his scheme there is not, as for Hegel, a logical necessity that the categories remain fixed in certain dialectically related patterns so as to constitute a system or organic whole.)

It means the organic and structured whole of the church, the people gathered round their bishop, and attached to their shepherd, as Cyprian put it.

In the organic responses of the adverbial level, selective processes operate according to what is relevant to the fulfilment of the organism as a whole.12 At the same time, although some selectivity may occur, adverbial responses tend to take the character of «total assertions» of the whole organism about the whole object it confronts.13 At the accusative level, or level of conscious symbolization, whole masses of irrelevant detail are excluded according to some principle of relevance operating in consciousness at the time.

Each man, each community, humanity as a whole, the range of historical development, the realm of nature... all are knit together in an organic totality; all have played, or failed to play, their part in the good which is being achieved by God.

«61 In the organic approach, all parts are responsible for the whole as full partners in decision making, as attested by a number of books that began to appear in the 1970s to promote the democratization of congregational leadership.

«We must choose between a dualism and an organic monism» (LP 191f), Hartshorne argues and proceeds to show how it is possible to understand both reality as a whole and its parts to be organic (LP 191 - 215).

These may be misused and they can be abused; but in themselves «dirt» and «matter» and the whole world of nature, to which we as men in our history are organic, are «good stuff» and must not be despised nor rejected.

In addition, Hartshorne holds that every lesser organ and organism is organic» in the sense of being parts of the one supreme cosmic organism, the universe, which he regards as a well - unified, purposive whole.