Sentences with phrase «creative universe of»

The exhibition, which is curated by Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery, brings together 130 photographs, taken between the end of the 1940s and the mid-1980s, and has as a goal to cast a light on the creative universe of the celebrated American photographer, putting relatively unknown images side...

In addition to Benglis's extraordinary poured latex pieces from the 1960s and 1970s, drawing on themes from her childhood and her Greek roots, the exhibition includes early bronze casts, wax reliefs, and videos, revealing the creative universe of an artist who has radically reinvented the language of contemporary sculpture.

Barba's film offers a portrait of one of his sculptures, which has borne witness over many years to the joyful creative universe of this great figure in twentieth - century art history.

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you believe in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the possibility of a creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!

God is, at the very least, a sentient creative imperative — of which, this universe is but one example, one expression.

Someone has put a staggering amount of time and creative energy into figuring out how all the Pixar movies are actually an interconnected part of the same universe.

The principle of conformation expresses «the stubborn fact that whatever is settled and actual must in due measure be conformed to by the self - creative activity» (S 36), and also assumes that «universality of truth arises from the universality of relativity, whereby every particular actual thing lays upon the universe the obligation of conforming to it» (S 39).

I take it that the «self - creative unity of the universe» refers to the actual entity insofar as it is a particular instance of creativity.

The doctrine of the philosophy of organism is that, however far the sphere of efficient causation be pushed in the determination of components of a concrescence — its data, its emotions, its appreciations, its purposes, its phases of subjective aim — beyond the determination of these components there always remains the final reaction of the self - creative unity of the universe.

And all this labour was set in motion by the active, creative awakening of his soul inasmuch as that human soul had been chosen to breathe life into the universe.

But also it does seem to suggest that the universe exists because of God's creative action and the scientific evidence we have indicates that this creative action was not a one - off event because, in addition to the problem of inheritance, the actual conditions for life to occur on Earth are so stringent that they could not have happened by a process of natural chance.

The universe would make no sense if there were not some chief causative agency, some source of novelty, some final destiny, some creative and energizing activity striving for the accomplishment of great ends.

Instead of a mechanistic view of the universe, the process - relational understanding is holistic and ecological, seeing the world as dynamic, creative, throbbing, pulsating with energy, interrelated and interdependent.

We can see that the universe hangs together and exhibits some creative advance, but how can we possibly know anything about this consequent nature of God?

The problem raised by any literal reading of the Category of the Ultimate may be put this way: how can an actual occasion be at once the creative synthesis of and a novel addition to the many occasions of its correlative universe?

I sometimes have wondered if the more Deist or Spinoza god concept could be followed to the idea that a creative force jump - started this universe only to move on to a new project, maybe never to return, but I like the notion that such a creative force might still be around but perhaps, building on your notion, re-inventing itself and perhaps expanding the internal complexity of this universe as well as time goes on.

If the following passage from Process and Reality is at all significant, the answer must be that that is precisely what Whitehead means: «The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element in the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self - identity of things and their mutual diversities» (347f).

In respect to the creative advance of the universe, then, or in respect to time in its metaphysical sense, superjects constitute the cumulative or disjunctive «many», whereas the causal objectifications of those superjects in later occasions constitute the reproduced or conjunctive «many».

In other words, the universe's creative advance leaves in its wake, as it were, an ever - growing multiplicity of attained actualities.

The Category of the Ultimate asserts that the creative advance «is the universe always becoming one in a particular unity of self - experience, and thereby adding to the multiplicity which is the universe as many (PR 89).

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.

-- C. S. Lewis who went from atheist to Anglican felt that if the universe is just cause and effect, the unfolding of physical laws without creative or guiding actor, then nobody can criticize someone else for any action or belief, since all of it is inevitable and could not be any other way given the initial conditions.

This mutual relevance, or coherence, of the two principles is particularly evident when Whitehead says: «The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element in the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self - identity of things and of their mutual diversities» (PR 347f).

The universe's creative advance is the application of... [the] ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates» (PR 32).

In this light, the seen and the unseen universes of the plural existents were posited in two senses: i) In their primary objectification as the word kun (the creative command «Be»).

Thus the creative advance of the universe involves a succession of durations.

If we are the products of the creative life force in the universe, is that not a «spark»?

For example, how do we see the creative and redemptive love of God through the perspective of the age - long development of the immense universe, only a speck of which we inhabit, and of the evolution of sentient and rational life on this earth through thousands and millions of years?

The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle [The Christian Century, November 28, 1934].

Included in the idea that the creative advance is not uniquely serial is the idea that there is not a unique present state of the universe.

The cosmic «I» no longer sees the perpetual perishing of worlds or universes, or even itself, as ultimate evil, but instead cries out in adoration to its creator: «It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit.

There the resemblance ends, for these components are all internally active centers of creative experience existing in a relativistic universe.

I do not know why Whiteheadians should object (PS 6:219) to this monistic theme, since they are committed to think in terms of a God who supplies the initial subjective aim of each actual entity, and of the completion of the development of the actual entity by «the final reaction of the self - creative unity of the universe» (PR 75 — italics supplied).

It is as if he feels that the creative urge of the universe, which the Chinese have traditionally called Tao, is working in and through him.

He seemed to view faith as a romantic adventure and the universe as a wild fairy tale — I had a similar perspective on the world, as a twenty - one - year old in D.C. Chesterton died long before YouTube, but if he were alive today, I think he would advocate new, creative methods to revolutionize the practice of journalism.

An eye - popping, universe - exploding, noisy, colorful, cacophony of creative power unleashed into darkness and chaos.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

Each concrescence is an indivisible creative act; and so the temporal advance of the universe is not continuous, but discrete.

It only requires the principle that there would be no universe at all but for the creative activity of God.

One lesson, for me, is that people with dementia remind us that we are all deficient in spiritual memory, that we are largely forgetful of the Creative Presence that set up a universe to give rise to creatures like ourselves.

Kaplan maintains that God is the creative process which transforms the chaos of the universe into an organic whole: «Nature is infinite chaos, with all its evils forever being vanquished by creativity, which is God as infinite goodness» (REN 51).

This is what we understand by God as the creative life of the universe» (MG 76).

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

The locals see only the carpenter, but the creative hand through whom the universe and each one of them was shaped is in their presence.

Personality, the most valuable thing in the universe, revealing the real nature of the Creative Power and the ultimate meaning of creation, the only eternal element in a world of change, the one thing worth investing in, and in terms of service to which all else must be judged — that is the essential Christian creed [As I See Religion (Harper & Brothers, 1932), P. 44].

But his gaze seems dominatively informed by «microorganic» and cosmological interests, by concern with the creative advance of the universe and its atomic building blocks, actual occasions.

Nietzsche envisions a permanent realm of life within the boundaries of the temporal universe, but only by relinquishing freedom of choice, any novel temporal advance, and any creative, individual influence.

It must be stressed, however, that it is not necessary to refute Darwinism on scientific grounds in order to maintain the religious truth claims expressed in the biblical account of history: e.g., God's sovereignty and creative initiative, man's free will, his unique dignity in the universe, and his supernatural end.

In the later cosmology, such a method is applied to experience in general where relatedness is taken as primary, and the extensive properties of nature are dependent upon the function of the universe as a creative process, albeit such a method loses it deductive character when applied to the observed connectives of experience.

He has come to realize time as evolutionary, as creative of novelty, as opposed to the classic view of time as negative, as going on without purpose since the universe is finished.