Sentences with phrase «descriptions of human experience»

Any doctrine which refuses to place human experience outside nature, must descriptions of human experience factors which also enter into the description specialized natural occurrences.

Charles W. Morris, in Six Theories of Mind, writes: «Whitehead's course of procedure is to give a comprehensive description of human experience and then to take this description as a key to the nature of reality» (quoted in 1:51).

The philosophy of organism of Process and Reality is an ambitious attempt to extend descriptions of human experiencing that we give with such terms as «sensation», «perception», «sensory image», and «judgment» to the experiencing of subhuman organisms.

I also claim that my revision provides a more fruitful description of human experience.

Not exact matches

If, as Hartshorne does, one uses one's prior understanding of various types of human experience as the source of generalized descriptions which together constitute the final concept of experience, how does one decide whether the generalizations have been radical enough to support application to all — including nonhuman — experiences or were sufficient only to cover human experiences?

In the Bible sin is not a deed; it is a description of human life separated from the love of God and experiencing the reality of lack of love, inadequacy, and insecurity, and seeking to create the missing ingredients ourselves and always at someone else's expense.

Whitehead's method, in part, is to analyze these occasions of subjective experience in order to find factors capable of being generalized into principles applicable to all actual entities: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have... tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 172).

Yet implicitly it was constituted as a constructive or normative project: What it presented as a description of human voluntarism in fact had to displace a very different form of human self - understanding and long - standing experience.

Founding the generalized description upon human experience requires that we make an imaginative descent of the scale of organic being.

This is the sort of experience Whitehead is referring to when he writes: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have, with Locke, tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 112).

He said that the «Christian doctrine of grace stands in juxtaposition to the Christian doctrine of original sin and has meaning only if the latter is an accurate description of the actual facts of human experience.

The kind of phenomenological method which is often advocated is of a non-metaphysical type; that is, it is interested in description, in terms of how living religion, as a matter of deepest intuitive observation, effectively operates in human experience in the world where men live.

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

In the description of this simple human experience I have used the relatively neutral term» events» to characterize the other occurrences on which the human occasion of experience depends for most of its content.

The nature of reality is disclosed in the description of the experiences of human subjects (PR 252).

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It is a good description of the common human experience, even for believers.

An excerpt from Magnolia's description of the film says: «Following a long fascination with [Scientology] and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Louis Theroux won't take no for an answer when his quest to enter the Church's headquarters is turned down.

Her descriptions of the human - feline bonds which we, as caretakers, have experienced ourselves are beautifully chronicled.

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It's mainly used as an initial screening tool to analyze titles, dates and descriptions from resumes to evaluate a candidate's depth of experience (or rather, to see whether it's fit for human eyes).

Using the duties and responsibilities of a human resource manager contained in the above sample job description can help you create the work experience section for your resume that will be attractive to employers.