Sentences with phrase «central notion of»

The artist's companion exhibition text offers this tantalizing quote to posit meaning regarding Shakespeare's central notion of copying, «All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.»

The displacement of reality in image and space is one central notion of Pop - Art, turning everyday objects and slogans into art, such as the everyday replicas of Claes Oldenburg, the comic - like mimicries of Roy Lichtenstein, the female ads of Mel Ramos or the eye popping signs of Robert Indiana.

The central notion of discovering one's unique personal identity («the only thing that matters is what you choose to be now») takes us back to an earlier China and it's free of jokey references to other movies.

The central notion of the clash is that science and religion can not coexist — that each is somehow out to get the other.

Although Jung's thought is often justifiably viewed as esoteric and without adequate ties to clinical experience, its central notion of individuation is indisputably a most important one; and it is primarily because of the significance of Jung's highlighting the process of individuation that I am using his psychology as a base for evaluating Hartshorne's thought.

The concept of actual occasion is the central notion of Whiteheadian thought.

But with precisely the same cast of argument, the judges will need to settle their answer to the question of just what is their principled ground for turning back these other demands that spring from the very reasoning they bring forward as they detach marriage from that central notion of begetting.

My own emphasis will be on faith in learning, and the axis around which my musings cluster is what I take to be the central notion of the Christian faith; namely, the incarnation.

How it turned out can be seen to have corrupted essential elements of the biblical vision, especially the central notion of a dynamic, living deity for whom love is at the core of divine manifestations of power.

Not exact matches

«In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

Also, in part reflecting strong views expressed by the Australian authorities, the Financial Stability Board developed the notion of «four safeguards» for a resilient global framework for central counterparties.

Noting that monetary policy works in part by altering financial prices and asset values, and thus by affecting risk - taking and borrowing and saving decisions, it questions the notion that the monetary policy and financial stability goals of central banks can be neatly separated.

But it is an effort to sort out the central features of experiences of various sorts, to generalize their descriptions, and to develop in that way a generic notion of experience intended to be applicable to all the various kinds of experience.

Cricks formula that biology is reducible to physics and chemistry is of central importance because, if it is logically coherent then emergence is indeed only an illusion, and the notions of final causation and purpose are dispensable in any intelligent attempt to understand nature.

The notion of one's «inner being» will be central to the following argument.

The notion of «dignitary harm» develops John Stuart Mill's central doctrine of liberal freedom, which can only be limited insofar as our freedom leads to harm of others.

The central chapter on the Second Premise (K 65 - 140) contains: (i) a refutation of the attempted application of Cantor's transfinite mathematics to the domain of extramental reality, (ii) two philosophical arguments which attempt to show the conceptual absurdity of the notion of an infinite past of finite actualities, and (iii) two arguments from physics (concerning Big Bang and Thermodynamic theory, respectively) which attempt to show that probably the natural universe had an absolute beginning a finite time ago.

Central to Whitehead's metaphysics in Process and Reality is his rejection of «the classic notion of «time»» (35): «There is a prevalent misconception that «becoming» involves the notion of a unique seriality for its [creative] advance into novelty» (35).

In particular, Mays interprets Process and Reality in light of two central notions: «the postulational method of modern logic with its emphasis on complex relational systems, and the field theory of modem physics with its emphasis on the historicity of physical systems» (PW 20/14).

In the first part of the presentation I would like to sketch the main architectural lines of a process sacramental model in which the Whiteheadian understanding of proposition is a central notion.

One striking affinity between all these philosophers, except Peirce, is the central role in their metaphysics played by the notion of «the specious present.»

Becoming is the central notion; for the universe, at every moment, consists solely of becomings.

lvarez thinks that to better understand the history and development of the different kinds of Pentecostalism, it is important to emphasize three central aspects common to all Pentecostal churches, given the notion that spirituality should incorporate all aspects of a believer's life: liturgy, testimony, and evangelization.

Such views, Simon argued, are the reverse of the truth and tend to give moderns an instinctively hostile attitude toward the very notion of authority and a superficiality in their grasp of the profoundly central place authority occupies in a healthy social life.

The central notion by which Whitehead understands this sharing of entities in one another is «prehension».

Although the notion of revelation does not appear formally within the Bible (and in fact does not become a central theme of theology until after the Enlightenment), the sacred writings and traditions all invite us to listen closely, and they promise that we shall hear a word bearing good news.

The notion that Christians are declared righteous for the sake of Christ has been a central part of Lutheran theology and most Protestant theology.

In light of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Lawrence M. Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing, asks «why, as a nation, do we have to institutionalize the notion that religion must play a central role at such times, with the president as the clergyman - in - chief?»

Using historian Eric Hobsbawm's notion of invented traditions, Howard illuminates the solution that the wedding industry has worked out concerning its central dilemma: «how to persuade consumers to accept new goods and services in connection with a ritual that was ostensibly «traditional» and «noncommercial.»»

As a modest contribution, I intend, focussing on the notion of cidadania (citizenship), the central term for democracy since the end of military rule in 1985, to analyze the theoretical and practical contribution of churches towards it.

My central point now is that it is only in light of this theory of Whitehead's own intellectual project that one could do what Lewis has now proposed doing: show its completion or fulfillment in his own theory of God as the subjectivity of the future, a profoundly difficult and complex notion discussed at greater length in other essays by George Allan and Robert C. Neville in this Special Focus.

Those notions remain central to my conception of evangelical as I use the label today.

it might be argued that any statement that resists contradiction and places itself as a truism is contrary to the notion of intelligence that is central to education.

Gregory's central subject is pastoral guidance (governance or direction) rather than the more limited notion of pastoral rule (as the available English translations would suggest).

We have taken this notion of sustainability as central in our calculations.

I think that Luther lived that transition where he hated God because he was angry and vengeful, but discovered something new in Jesus - Christ and the notion of justice and justification was central to that?

This notion of repetition is central to the move from materialism to organicism in science.

The central notion by which Whitehead understands this sharing of entities one by another is «prehension».

To suggest to you how central this notion is to the biblical tradition — one of the central biblical metaphors for infidelity to the relationship with God is adultery.

It's difficult to accept the notion that the things that are most characteristic of our lives should not be most central.

The cosmology of vibratory motion requires a notion of harmony as a central ontological concept.

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The notion that an «emerging awareness» can reveal hitherto unknown rights is, of course, the central claim of the famous «living Constitution» theory.

The notion that morality applies to individuals and not to governments is completely contrary to a central doctrine of Reformed theology which is endorsed, in varying forms, by other Christian traditions as well: that Jesus Christ is the Lord not just of the church, nor of a special sphere of religious activity, but of all of the natural and human world.

If Charles Hartshorne has been the leading process philosopher to articulate the rationalist perspective, Schubert Ogden has been the central thinker to contend for the necessity of metaphysical analysis for theological reflection through the development of his notions of faith, religion and theology.

The conflicting claims among different religious traditions necessarily relativize all such claims and underscore his central thesis that «afterlife notions are mirrors of our cultural and social needs.»

Central to Rollins» thesis is the rejection of the modern notion that humans have the capacity to grasp objective universal truth.

Most high school football teams point to the notion of brotherhood as one of the central tenets on which success is built.

In fact, anything resembling contending — not an impossible notion, given the utter weakness of the AL Central, but actually a pretty darn good season slogan (White Sox» 18: Resembling Contending!)