Sentences with phrase «by dialectical»

My clinical approach is influenced by Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Behavioral, Mindfulness, Solution Focused and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as I aim to provide a skills based treatment for fast results.

Thus, says critic Antony Everitt: «by dialectical contrast, formal balance is either eliminated or submerged by spontaneous gestural techniques».

Marionettes struggle to grasp their own strings, exhibiting the Lacanian pain principle, «jouissance,» illustrated by the dialectical interplay between enjoyment and suffering in Herter's characters.

As a rule, totalitarianism endeavors to do away with the individual subject: his thought is replaced by ideology, his speech is replaced by some dialectical variety of Newspeak, his actions are replaced by the automatic development of Progress, History, or class struggle, supervised by the State or the Party» which, thanks to its «hundreds of eyes» (Brecht, Die Massnahme), is supposed to be wiser and more farsighted than any one of us.

He wrote, «Every moment is no doubt a passing link in the great flux, but is also an eternity in itself», and added, «The method of dialectical materialism informed by spirituality may unravel the movement of history; the method of spirituality informed by dialectical materialism may raise the edifice of being» (Marx, Gandhi and Socialism p. 373 - 4.)

The correction to liberal theology made by the dialectical theology of the early 20th century scarcely improved Protestant approaches to Aquinas.

The insights we seek by means of the text are thus neither general religious or theological truths, nor simply the author's original insights, but the truth of our own personal and social being as it is laid bare by dialectical interpretation of the text.

Language for him, as for Heidegger, is the house of being which by a dialectical movement of the hermeneutical circle through understanding and explanation and explanation and understanding will disclose new possibilities of being.

Altizer's historico - existentialist period was characterized by a dialectical affirmation of the world of experience, which maximized a radical thrust into the profane only to transfigure its present form.

Once this dualistic form of consciousness is negated and transcended by a dialectical movement of thinking or vision, then the world or reality no longer stands forth as autonomous and apart, and is known or experienced as being integrally and necessarily related to the center and ground of consciousness.

The authority of that experience is mediated by the dialectical defense of this (mediated) immediacy and its (consequent and derivative) authority.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

For the consciousness of that experience of the self is mediated by the dialectical examination or analysis which brings it to consciousness.

Not exact matches

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.

The meaning of Paul's Romans «can not be released save by a creative straining of the sinews, by a relentless, elastic application of the «dialectical» method 30 I would suggest that Altizer's method is continuous with, and a fulfillment of, the dialectical method of Barth's Romans.

By identifying the dialectical element that he recognizes in the process of concrescence with feeling rather than with logic, Whitehead is able to preserve the integrity of logic, and to avoid what I take to be the Hegelian dual fallacy of both overestimating the power of so - called «reason,» and at the same time encumbering logic with psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical elements that have no proper place in it.

So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the subjective truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only by virtue of the absurdity of its objective meaning or ground.

We began by isolating two problems in the logic and mathematics of Hegel's day which he attempted to deal with by means of his dialectical logic.

Let us begin by looking at certain aspects of Hegel's dialectical logic and attempting to make some determinations as to its nature and genesis.

By way of contrast, Greeley contends, Protestantism and a culture formed by Protestantism tend toward a «dialectical imagination.&raquBy way of contrast, Greeley contends, Protestantism and a culture formed by Protestantism tend toward a «dialectical imagination.&raquby Protestantism tend toward a «dialectical imagination.»

Although biographically Kierkegaard's choice of a negative dialectic was hardened by his second conversion or «metamorphosis,» a conversion which led to his resolve to attack the established church, and hence to abandon philosophy, it is also true that he could limit faith to a negative dialectical movement because he could identify faith and «subjectivity.»

Karl Barth met this «scandal,» and thus founded crisis theology, by adopting Kierkegaard's dialectical method, a method which led him to posit an antithetical relationship between the Word of God and the word of man.

«We may hold that the existence of God can not be directly established by any logical argument, dialectical or otherwise; but we can insist that some objective principle of order and value is immanent in rational thought in particular, and in the cosmos as a whole.»

My own approach to a radical Catholic understanding of analogy or analogia entis was by way of giving it a dialectical meaning, and a meaning that hopefully would be dialectical and historical at once.

Clearly at these points and others di - polar theology stands to gain immensely by the employment of Hegelian dialectical thinking.

The dual parts require the performer to simultaneously attune to her inner darkness and light, hopping back and forth between dialectical extremes, to the delight of audiences enthralled by the bravura embodiment of such range and passion.

Only such a dialectical negation can save the meaning of faith from the darkness brought on by the collapse of Christendom.

your reaction questioning the evidence of god is readily answered by my presence as the concsious part of him, and his delegation to me the responsibility of initiating the evolution through dialectical process.

When the Creator disappears from the boundary of finitude, and Eternity is swallowed up by time, then theology must lose its ground in a dialectical tension between the here and the Beyond.

Just as the apocalyptic New Aeon of primitive Christianity appears only in the context of the seeming triumph of the Old Aeon of darkness, a total act of faith in Christ demands a dialectical movement occasioned by the presence of the radical profane.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

This solidarity, by its mere expression, supplies its own critique of dialectical reason.

Unlike Samuel Beckett or Jorge Luis Borges, who provide a modernist critique of dialectical hubris by parodying the infinite regress of its logic while never going beyond that logic themselves, Solzhenitsyn claims to have learned how to move beyond the absurdities born of an unbridled rationalism, since he, and the rest of his fellow zeks (prisoners), have suffered dialectic's most extreme miscalculation.

While Sartre attempts to explain the mechanisms of dialectical reasoning in its social context, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag sets a limit to dialectical thought by demonstrating its ultimate moral failure.

Even the language by which we speak of the higher expressions of religion is inevitably dialectical.

Students of religion know that the primal forms of religious discourse are by one means or another dialectical, and thus they must inevitably exist in tension with the dominant modes of contemporary thought and experience.

For those who hold the dialectical attitude toward evil, good can not exist in solitary splendour, nor is it opposed by a radically separate evil with which it has nothing to do.

Being neither a Gnostic escape from the world nor a romantic flight from history, dialectical thinking moves by means of a negation that is simultaneously affirmation.

For in fact there is in all obscurity a dialectical interplay of knowledge and will, and in interpreting a man one may err, either by emphasizing knowledge merely, or merely the will.

While «belonging to» is the a priori hermeneutical condition, alienating distanciation is its dialectical opposite and, according to Gadamer, is engendered by the interpreter's «effective historical consciousness» (wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewusstsein).

The text's alterity will only be experienced if the dialectical dynamic of «belonging to» and «alienating distanciation» has been activated by «effective historical consciousness».

The first half of this dialectical statement then makes it conceivable that the finite cause can transcend itself, and that it is truly the agent itself which does so, that is to say that its operation as received, or as produced from itself, is more than the agent, and yet is posited by the agent, so that the agent can in fact go beyond and above itself.

Each statement about the beginning which is not an immediate datum but which is aetiologically deduced from a later phase of the process of change, is by nature dialectical.

The dialectical formula asserting that it is by being above it that the orienting term is in the dynamic tendency as one of the factors that constitute it, is a formula that is both complex and single, and can not be resolved without detriment to the phenomenon in question.

The importance of this is that interpretation is not external to testimony but implied by its initial dialectical structure.

The truer picture of reality is that there are long periods in which the ascent is uninterrupted, followed by a short period of regression or vice versa, or again, there may be periods of dialectical regularity.

This dialectical statement can not be simplified after the fashion of Idealist philosophy by making the dynamic tendency a component of the term itself, the latter being the «Absolute Spirit».

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

This is presumptuous, says Origen, for it implies that the «truth of Christianity» is to be decided by a criterion external to itself; but, he continues, the «gospel has a proof which is peculiar to itself and which is more divine than a Greek proof based on dialectical arguments.»