Sentences with phrase «constitutive relationships»

The principle of equality most profoundly means that we are equally dependent on the constitutive relationships that create us, however relatively unequal we are in our various strengths, including our ability to exemplify the fullness and concreteness of this kind of power.

But the solitariness of individuality is lived out only in the midst of constitutive relationships.

He can imagine that he is essentially independent of all constitutive relationships.

''... All novelty and emergence is really due to the constitutive relationships at lower levels which enable and effect the emergence of novel systems and organisms at higher levels.

Moreover, by emphasizing the notion that personality was the sum total of its constitutive relationships and was subject to the interpersonal forces at work in a given field of energy, Sullivan was expressing in psychological terms the more complicated notions entailed in Whitehead's discussion of the extensive continuum.6

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MoJ's Rob Vischer uses this story about the culture of marital infidelity in Russia to raise questions about the relationship between law and cultural norms in maintaining general public adherence to the practices constitutive of healthy family life.

The first is that all human societies contain a kind of opening toward transcendence; the relationship between the human person and God is constitutive and unavoidable.

As such being - known - by - mind is a relationship constitutive and causative of a creaturely thing.

Materialism entails that what a thing (bit of material) is does not depend on its relationships to other things (bits of material); the relationships of a thing are not constitutive of it.

Furthermore, if we recall that to be human is to be social, so that our relationship with others is integral to and largely constitutive of our own identity, then our thought about survival of death must be very different from the highly individualistic view so popular in the past.

i) the relationships of any eternal object A, considered as constitutive of A, merely involve other eternal objects as bare relata without reference to their individual essences, and

I thank Fr Simon Hayes for his constructive response (letters, June 2014) to my positing of «mind as a metaphysical first principle» such that «being - known - by - mind is a relationship constitutive of and causative of a creaturely thing».

Their possibilities for relationship are constitutive of their nature.

This principle means that «being - known - by - mind is a relationship constitutive of and causative of a creaturely thing».

In the case of the human person and God, the relationship is a personal and fundamental one implying that grace is given gratuitously and is somethingsupernatural: that is to say, it is not something that is constitutive of human nature but transcendent whilst at the same time being what human nature was made for.

Lecture On Thursday 11 June at 5.00 pm writer and critic David Levi Strauss will discuss the relationship between image and abstraction in Terry Winters» work, and the constitutive differences between technical images created by mechanical means and manual images.

Taken together, the totems and monochromes self - reflexively distill the constitutive elements of painting — canvas, stretcher, paint — even as they insist on their relationship to the everyday, on their grounding in the world.