Sentences with phrase «defined by reality»

It holds that a principle or principles of human rights must be independent of any comprehensive telos to which all human activity ought to be directed, that is, a telos defined by reality as such and, in that sense, metaphysical.

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«We believe virtual reality will be heavily defined by social experiences that connect people in magical, new ways.

The collapse of the global economic - political paradigm that was fostered and nurtured by neo-classical economic theories built on childish abstracts which failed to embrace the physical and mathematical realities of existence defined by universal laws of matter and energy.

When I use the word «subjective» I mean that which is defined by a person (subject) or people; when I say «objective» I mean that which exists apart from any person or people, regardless of how or if that objectively existing reality might be known.

Style, as it is defined in The Rebel, is the «correction which the artist imposes by his language and by a redistribution of elements of reality» and gives the «re-created universe its unity and boundaries» (Rb 269).

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

In defining the complex notion of wisdom, Deane - Drummond introduces the concept of wisdom as an understanding of different facets of reality, a contemplative «way of knowing» lost by modern science with its focus on specific discoveries.

If the defining goal of a theological school is to understand God truly, then as a matter of faithfulness to God the freedom of a theological school's effort to understand must not be constrained by the way in which it is governed as a political and social reality in its own right.

The essential elements in the traditional understanding of tradition were left intact by the Second Vatican Council but it was made a more fluid reality to be defined as much by the people of God as by the magisterium.

We should remember what Lesslie Newbigin defines as conversion: «A turning round in order to participate by faith in a new reality which is the true future of the whole creation.

This is not to say, however, that a vision of reality is like a «basic belief» as defined by Alvin Plantinga and others, meaning that it need not be justified.

Atheists (myself included) think there's something scary (and ultimately dangerous) about defining reality by something other than evidence...

If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.

In Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 102 Whitehead provides what amounts to a definition of «contemporary»: «Actual entities are called «contemporary» when neither belongs to the «given» actual world defined by the other.»

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

Granted, we might say that the proposition «if x is an intellect, then x distorts reality by spatializing it» is an analytical truth akin to «if x is a bachelor, then x is unmarried,» and Bergson would even accept this (CE 270), so long as we are simply drawing implications about things we have already defined.12 But Bergson does not treat any definition as unrevisable, absolute or permanent.

My reality is defined by science.

Several other conditions besides mobility seem also to be required, like the presence of a charismatic leader who defines reality for those whose world is threatened by chaos.

We define religious experience as a confrontation by man with Ultimate Reality — for no finite or relative phenomenon is worthy of adoration, only God is.

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

«Adam is not defined by an essence since for human reality essence comes after existence.

From its first great formulations by Plato and Aristotle, the chief defining characteristic of classical metaphysics has been its separation of what is given in our experience into two quite different kinds of reality.

If, however, the preacher is only apparently leaving room for choice and conclusion but in reality has left open only one door, then that process is to be defined by another term: deception.

The reality of it is this: that we incline to define ourselves, take the measure of our actuality, admit as educative and civilizing, acknowledge as relevant and powerful — only that in experience or reflection which is authenticated by its occurrence within the biographical brackets of the self's existence.

In his effort to state tentatively and in his own way such apparently dawning agreements the author of this essay must employ the method of polar analysis; that is, he must try to do justice to the dynamic character of that social reality, the Church, by defining certain poles between which it moves or which it represents.

But Meland's thinking was truly distinguished not by this, but by his insistence on the fallibility of religious forms and symbols — by his insistence that the reality experienced through empirical knowledge was simply uncapturable by the precisions so loved by the theologians, whether the precision of a Wieman who strove to define with ever - increasing exactness the character of the creative event or of a Hartshorne who strove to state with ever - greater rigor the necessary elements in a notion of God.

The reality is that we ALL have this tendency to go with the herd, and way more often than not what that «obedience» you are hinting at by saying «living for Jesus of living for ourselves» is defined by that particular religious community.

Because their own rationalized experience increasingly defined for them what was «real,» theologians sought to understand scripture by relating it to their own (supposedly universal) «reality.»

Christian thought has traditionally, of necessity, defined evil as a privation of the good, possessing no essence or nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play in God's determination of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can in no way supply any imagined deficiency in God's or creation's goodness.

Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occurs.

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

Transcendence has been, shall we say, declared «inoperative» by the major agencies that «officially» define reality — the universities, the school system, the medical system, the communications media, and to some extent even the courts.

It can only bring home to us the awful reality of this fact by saying that for it — i.e. for philosophical analysis each man's particular future can in the last resort be defined as «nothingness», and that it can understand freedom for the future solely as «the readiness for dread» (Angstbereitschaft), which man has to accept by an act of resolve.

But whenever [reason] takes on the semblance of literal understanding, fortified by meticulous logical argument, it becomes illegitimate... precisely on the grounds that it is no longer simply pointing or reaching toward realities that form the depths of existence, but is presuming to define, describe, or characterize them in logical terms... (FFS 129)

The dictionary I consulted define delusion as an idiosyncratic belief of position maintained despite being contradicted by reality.

In an impassioned poem, Timothy DuWhite, emphasizing that everyone defines their own subjective truth, told his tale of being infected by an ex-lover, whom he still loves, and his struggle to come to terms with the reality of his serostatus while completing college.

Critical scholars argue that a Kuhnian world defined by sudden shifts is too simplistic, and that in reality things play out differently under different circumstances.

In the classical world, an object has a solid reality: Even a cloud of gas is well described by hard little billiard ball - like pieces, each of which has a well - defined position and velocity.

Visual illusions are defined by the dissociation between physical reality and subjective perception of an object or event.

The interviewees seemed to compensate for lifes disappointments and feelings of powerlessness by subscribing to a perturbed reality that was starkly defined by friends and enemies.

First, while my well - being isn't solely defined by the physical, the physical is still a reality and does need to be addressed.

So much of Mann's later career is on display here: James Caan's thief is a man defined and trapped by his sordid occupation, existentially and even linguistically, yet tormented by the dreams that override his weary sense of reality.

Stiller made his directorial debut with Reality Bites, a sweet romantic comedy that had the misfortune of being marketed as the defining film of Generation X. Stiller's next film as a director, The Cable Guy, was an ambitious black comedy that was overshadowed by the hype surrounding Jim Carrey's then - unprecedented $ 20 million payday and dark role.

Viewers take it for granted that most action movies unfold in a parallel reality of shoot - outs and fiery car chases, but Wick's script — by Derek Kolstad, who wrote the solid, no - frills, direct - to - video The Package — distinguishes itself by carefully defining the boundaries of its universe, in which criminals have their own currency (gold bullion, naturally) and Manhattan is home to boutique hotels that cater exclusively to hitmen.

Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.

Combine this habit with certain stylistic practices associated with commercials and sitcoms and you have the only kind of reality available to characters in a Coen brothers movie; whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way — defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

According to Wikipedia, augmented reality is defined as «a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real - world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer - generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.»

A report released by the UCLA Civil Rights Project confirms this unfortunate reality, that a majority of AfricanAmerican and Latino students now attend schools that are predominately low - income and non-white, leading to what researchers define as «double segregation.»

Magic — as defined by science fiction becoming reality.

Yet another trick by traditional publishers, defining the out of print definition carefully, yet when looked at in reality, it means nothing.