Sentences with phrase «defines reality for»

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.

I mean if I were to reconcile the two in favor of religion, I would simply say that science is just our method of trying to figure out how God (or whatever) defined reality for us.

Don't let others define reality for us.

Not exact matches

Humphrey, who works with numerous CFOs and accountancy experts in a consulting capacity, says they need to be both Chief Trusted Advisor and Chief Future Officer, defining the vision and creating the reality for what a company needs to become while delivering long - term shareholder value.

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Faith in the bible is define as «Faith + is the assured expectation * of things hoped + for, the evident demonstration * of realities * though not beheld.»

One Christian response is to say simply that the State can define marriage as it will, can confer whatever legal privileges on whatever couples it should single out for its protection, but that this has no bearing on the reality, which is a matter of metaphysics, not convention.

And while it is purely hypothetical in your particular case, it is nothing short of reality for tf, hence the reason he defines morality as objective.

Had you concentrated on the Social Sciences as I have done, History, Sociology and Psychology you might have a clearer understanding of how the human mind creates and maintains the framework for understanding and defining «Reality».

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.

This point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of human thought in a more and more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined point of convergence required as term for this evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»

She laughs at the fantasy she has of America, but innumerable others have grown up in cultural enclaves that define for them an America that is similarly at odds with the reality.

We must avoid defining the subjectivity that is the requisite for reality too elaborately!

Sex offenders groom in order to «define reality» for victims and their community so that they agree with the abuser's distorted thoughts, beliefs, and values.

Ogden has himself formulated a «neutral» argument for theism in the title essay of The Reality of God.117 Here he defines God as «the objective ground in reality itself of our ineradicable confidence in the final worth of our existence.Reality of God.117 Here he defines God as «the objective ground in reality itself of our ineradicable confidence in the final worth of our existence.reality itself of our ineradicable confidence in the final worth of our existence.»

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

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.

We care because she gave up reason and logic for fantasy and wrongly defined herself as an Atheist (she might have been a weak Atheist but she was not a strong one or she's never have given up reality).

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

Although Whitehead does not define mass in Process and Reality, he presents the philosophical background for its preprojective origins in Chapter III, «The Order of Nature,» Sections IV through VII.

Schubert Ogden, author of The Reality of God and Other Essays and an outstanding process theologian, argues against subjective immortality, which he defines in the second sense, as people»... continuing to exist as subjects for the infinite future.

Man is unique among realities of the world, for he first exists and make free decisions before he can be defined.10

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

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.

One or the other of these polar characteristics of the social reality may be emphasized, but it can not be defined without some reference to the other pole or served without some concern for its counterpart.

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.»

«It is a version of an appeal for the protection of free speech, and in this case it is a demand that the speech of particular persons carry the authority to define the structure of reality without regard to the basis of past decisions.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

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 pressures are great in a society for a single generalized symbolic medium, a single reality - defining agency, and churches no longer are the targets of those pressures, the pressures will be exerted elsewhere.

«31 That is to say, the pressures for a single moral architecture (single «reality - defining» agency, single «generalized symbolic medium») were felt in common law institutions.

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.

Religious beliefs that deny the reality of diseases, define evil as illusory, or encourage belief in superstitions decrease respect for reality.

The Warriors have been so good they hadn't lost in almost two months before Friday's reality check, and that brings us full circle to the moment that has defined their run for the last year.

If you don't want to live in a legally defined religious - like devoted - for - life partnership where you sacrifice fantasies for reality, then as I suggested in my first post, spare yourself and your fiance the trouble and just don't get married.

«Precisely defined polymer chains now a reality: Paves way for unfathomable materials.»

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.

So here's my question for you: If you consider that you impose your own limitations, and if you consider that you define your own reality, then what might you want to shift?

For director of The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson, a heightened visual reality helped define his characters: clothes, house, cars, technology, everything in the film is identifiable as being from a specific era.

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.

Brooke lives to define herself, as Tracy so eloquently puts it, as «a beacon of hope for lesser people,» regardless of how well her definition aligns with reality.

«Collision» bursts over with a real sense of fun and enthusiasm that defines the sheer likability of Debney's touch in the cartoon realm, at once playing the situations for sweet, bouncy and sometimes perilous reality while never missing a gag.

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It will be a defining moment for the school, Lauenstein - Denjongpa says, a time to learn whether the rhetoric matches the reality.

, we invite agency professionals, clients and academics to discuss and analyse opportunities and challenges for the future of brands in a technology - driven reality, defined through increasing media convergence and connectivity.

Given this current reality, there's little chance any collaborative group of stakeholders is going to collectively develop clear and common standards for defining the teacher of the future at this stage in the field's development.

We've already seen how social media creates a warped sense of reality for many people who bathe in its echolalic feeds... when we integrate those feedback loops and mass communication potential into the surface of reality, our minds (and how we define them) will be altered for good — and I hope Molly helps make sure that is it for good, and not ill.

While some have tried to define these court decisions as successes, in reality, the outcomes have been extremely disappointing for advocates of increased judicial intervention.