Sentences with phrase «become constitutive»

Something my colleague has communicated to me has become a constitutive part of my being.

As political issues carve a toehold in public discourse, they become constitutive elements of the American experience.

After all, one or more individuals may prefer political participation, in which case human community becomes constitutive of happiness, until those preferences change.

Since it is the individual self - consciousness that is so formed, it becomes constitutive of the self, and difficult to transcend.

Never quite accepting a value - free objective world nor sharply opposing it to a value - laden subjective world in the first place, American empirical theologians have no cause to be so disturbed that subjective and contextual speculation becomes constitutive of what is religious.

Not exact matches

But a second mode of revolutionary thinking also found a foundational presence in Whitehead's «exercise» in «imaginative thought,» 2 namely, the emphasis on relations as internal to and constitutive of all that becomes and is, including the very reality of God.

John Hick and Arthur C. McGill (New York: Macmillan, 1967) for an informative exposition of Blondel: «In the very depths of the act in which we become conscious of what we are, we recognize an interior beyond, since this is constitutive of the dynamism of our souls» (p. 281).

Any momentary experience is internally related to its past, that is to say the past is constitutive of the present moment of becoming.

At that moment my wife's enjoyment is central to her experience, to her self, and in so far as I make this my own I make an element of her — strictly, of the «she» of a moment ago, since my senses are not instantaneous — to become an element constitutive of me.

then the course of temporal events becomes somehow constitutive of the divine life proper.

In other words, aspects of all these other entities are constitutive parts of what the cellular occasion becomes.

But because God in God's self - sufficiency desires nothing from us and has no constitutive use for us, affirming any substantial meaning to the notion that God «loves» us becomes problematic.