Sentences with phrase «beyond particular things»

It senses the ultimacy and unity of mystery more dramatically than sacramentalism, and it seeks to move more decisively beyond particular things, thus relativizing them in the light of the transcendent.

Not exact matches

While the love of a particular person or thing may bring a youth beyond immediate self - absorption, and reflect the beginnings of a process of self - transcendence, «This aspect of personal love,» Whitehead says, «is simply a clinging to a condition for selfish happiness.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

Correspondingly, active change and becoming of finite things (at least in certain particular but quite normal and natural forms) will appear not only as the active asymptotic approach to what is higher than themselves through active self - fulfillment of their own natures, but also as an active transcending of their own natures, whereby an existent itself by its own activity (which itself implies that of God) actively moves beyond and above itself.

the actors on the stage are suddenly frozen, their posture or gesture transfixed, the audience in an instant is turned to stone, time holds breath, and you and I become a part of this great drama — that of the meanings of things and events, of love and hate, of living and killing — a drama before and beyond time, before even this particular Passion, yet known to us here and now.

I have one La Leche League leader and mentor in particular who I kind of go to for all things even beyond breastfeeding, and she's sort of my attachment parenting, well, everything.

What is new in the past generation, he says, is this particular kind of pressure on teachers, making them personally responsible for things that are far beyond their control, such as the nation's economic success.

We do lots of things in our ePubs that are beyond the capability of an particular reader to display.

«What a lot of the small publishers cling to is not huge, particular business insight, but rather a thing beyond business.

If asked the question always answer honestly; yet you can still take care of a few things to help a buyer get beyond this particular objection.

I don't seek to achieve anything, I'm just enjoying that particular thing, with no expectations beyond that.

The notion of failure is a thing that factors heavily into Bauer's thinking as a particular threshold beyond which a system acts — if it acts at all — in erratic and unpredictable ways.

Beyond the obvious preoccupation, current in this country, with all things pertaining to identity, there is something very American in this particular, reticent attitude in Porter.

Hint: It ain't because a couple of scenes are technically imperfect, or because in some things Gore goes beyond the AR4 (which, as has been pointed out by several is the most penurious reading of the evidence) or even, horrors, exaggerate beyond what the particular sufferer from bad tummy believes.

Building codes are specific and set requirements for things like the width of a railing, the length of a railing, the distance between the railing and the wall, whether railings are required on one or both sides of a particular stairway, how the railings are attached to the wall, whether they extend beyond the last step, etc..

But one thing that didn't get talked about a lot is just how long Mp3Tunes founder Michael Robertson has been fighting to make cloud - based music a reality — a fight that extends beyond this particular battle with EMI, and all the way back to the beginning of the digital music revolution.

However, one part in particular was particularly beyond my limited understanding of such things: ``... and save a bit for a tramp, or pedlar passing through town.»