Sentences with phrase «beings qua»

(Spatial and temporal relations as such are weakly relevant to human beings qua human.)

In so doing we lose sight of what the things themselves really are qua things — and «things» here includes people, objects, ideas, moral codes, literally everything.

Thus, on the one band, the analysis of what an occasion is qua subject requires a reference to what the same occasion will be qua superject; for the subject is not an aimless, creative process, but is guided instead by its ideal of what the superject or outcome of that process is to be (PR 130).

Indeed, though Hartshorne accepts the formula that metaphysics explores «being qua being,» 7 he holds that metaphysics is the theory of concreteness.8 The theory of concreteness will include a theory of abstractness, thus maintaining the crucial distinction between concrete and abstract.

Hence ontology, the study of being qua being is to be seen as the consequence and achievement of subjectivity.

Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occurs.

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The thing to remember is that customer service is the sine qua non of marketing.

Whether it's doing the daily cross-word, conversing on difficult subjects, learning a language, or simply doing an interesting manual task, keeping active is at the heart of mental health, and the sine qua non of keeping on top of memory as you age.

Kobe isn't Kobe just because he was born naturally tall and athletic — although that is a sine qua non.

You can see this sense of priorities — with medium - term price stability being the sine qua non, and our acceptance that inflation may vary a little over the course of the cycle — in the specification of the inflation target as being an average «over the course of the cycle».

That ebb and flow of reserves from countryside to New York City and back again was the sine qua non of the crises that periodically rocked the U.S. economy.

Marr does take the challenge of pluralism seriously, but he is wrong because he thinks that the transcending of religious speech and reasoning (which is what he means by «philosophy») is the sine qua non for meeting such a challenge.

But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

And say a prayer for me and those who are working for unity and corporate righteousness, sine qua non.

But his defeat is crucial, the condition sine qua non.

How can Islam be true, full and authentic when it lacks one element that historically has been understood as a sine qua non of the faith?

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

Calvinism qua TULIP is much easier to delineate, articulate, and defend, than the Arminian, Lutheran, Catholic, or pre-Reformation Anabaptist equivalent.

It may be that in the course of history certain dimensions of saving truth become obscured and must be recovered but it is impossible for a theologian to stand apart from tradition and begin his work ab initio; to do so would be to cut himself off from the Church, which is the source sine qua non of theology, and to deny the historical givenness of Revelation.

And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act upon me though the united flames of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths of your heart, the angels of your triumphant activity.

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

Unanimity with the group as a whole had been at the beginning the sine qua non of Yahweh's favor; now such submergence of moral conviction in the majority's opinion seemed to the real devotees of Yahweh to be supine apostasy.

In fact we shall come to see, as Erasmus once remarked, quae pertinent ad fidem paucissimis articulis absolvantur: that the things which pertain to the faith are to be phrased in as few articles as possible.

It is perhaps not surprising, then, that his references to science qua science in the Regensburg address were mainly negative, which might suggest that science represents an outpost of positivist skepticism.

On the other hand, as memoria, faith makes it clear that Christian faith is a dogmatic faith which is tied to a certain content, a fides quae creditur.

And where the new faiths are not sectarian, they may be nationalistic, in a day when quas - religions of nationalism kill their legions.

Clearly, then, Whitehead intended «actuality» to be predicable of the occasion qua superject, as well as of the occasion qua subject; and this is what we would expect only if «actuality» is to be predicated of whatever either is, or has been, self - realizing.

Hence, an occasion qua subject is an entity, but it is not a being.

On that reading, for example, when Whitehead says that the «being» of an occasion is created by its «becoming», he is simply telling us that the occasion qua actual superject is created by the same occasion qua actual subject; and that is, of course, one of the main points of the said doctrine.

2 Given the synonymity of «entity» and «being» it would seem that an occasion qua subject could not be properly called an entity.

But what the occasion qua subject is aiming at is the realization of itself qua superject.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

Surely, whatever else Whitehead is saying here, he is saying that actual occasions are repeated (qua superjects only, never qua subjects), for among the «elements» in the universe relative to the origination of a novel creature are all those occasions which have already completed their becoming, i.e., those which are already superjects; hence, every superject accumulated in the wake of the universe's creative advance is repeated in each novel creature at the utmost verge of that advance.

The main thrust of this essay, then, is to establish that the principle of process asserts that an occasion qua actual subject creates, or produces, that same occasion qua actual superject.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.

This latter way of characterizing the objectification and ingression of actual entities and eternal objects, respectively, has the advantage, for our purposes, of emphasizing the distinction Whitehead makes between an entity or object qua capacity for being a realized determinant and that same entity or object qua realized determinant.

This God centeredness is the sine qua non of good theology, for, without it, it is impossible to think our thoughts after God, which is what defines good theology.

«Actual entity» is almost a contradiction in terms, James argues, because the occasion is actual only qua subject, and an entity only qua superject.

It is prevenient to the gospel and it is the sine qua non for communicating the nature of the Christian world - view.

Milic Capek, eminent disciple of Bergson, supports my contention that indeterminism is the sine qua non of process metaphysics, or at least is thought to be so by the most able and inspiring process thinkers.

The phenomena related to the roundness of the world and the succession of days and nights are the sine qua non conditions of our life on earth.

The point is that Christian faith is not reducible to a noncognitive «blik,» or to a subjective form (fides qua creditur) alone.

Relational in character, they are precisely the means by which the other qua other is introduced into a prehending subject.

The meaning of these distinctions for my present dispute with Professor Cobb is simply this: the concept of regions as potentialities that can not, qua potentialities, be said to originate with the becoming of occasions logically presupposes as its necessary condition the concept of regions as actualities, regions which, qua actualities, do originate with the becoming of occasions.

But Sherburne himself acknowledges that this is not the continuum qua continuum.

I do not pretend to be utterly clear about this, but I take it that self - identity is as fragile a thing as self - integration, and as dependent as the latter is on resources that lie outside the individual qua individual.

To others, his analysis of how metaphysical reasoning, qua metaphysical (his doctrine of the separatio), is distinct from yet allied to scientific and mathematical thought still endures.

We agree that the continuum qua continuum is potentiality and not actuality.