Human freedom is possible, but we are always, in quite palpable ways,
determined by our histories and that of our own time and place.
Perhaps we are too
determined by our history to transform ourselves in that way, but Mead allows those who preach and teach to hope that what we say and what people believe may still make a difference in what happens next.
Here's my response to Deneen's just concern that his fans my be scared off by my accusing him of being too Marxist: Here's Marx: Who a human being is is
determined by HISTORY (you paleos should love him — he really, really takes history seriously)-- that is, by the....
Chua's equations suggested that a memristor's electrical resistance, or conductivity, would not be constant, like a lightbulb's, but dynamic, and
determined by the history of the current that had flowed through the device.
The work of Halilaj is mainly
determined by the history of his home country Kosovo and his personal biography.
Fair compensation for your injuries and death are
determined by history, are determined by the facts of the case.
Designed as a way to measure a person's financial reliability, your credit score is
determined by your history of repaying debts, and it's becoming more and more important every day.
Not exact matches
This information could lead to significant advances in how doctors
determine who may be at risk of a cardiovascular condition and how to best treat them to lower their risk just
by analyzing their
history.
By studying the long
history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish
determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»
Technology leadership is not defined
by patents, which
history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a
determined competitor, but rather
by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers.
«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's
history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse
by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to
determine the news you see.»
«As we keep growing, we need a bigger line; I'm
determined to prove that we can handle it
by keeping our financial reports extra clean and
by building a flawless payment
history.»
The interest rate is primarily
determined by the lender's evaluation of the borrower's credit
history.
In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's
history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse
by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to
determine the news you see.»
That also means that the interest rates for these loans are set
by the lenders, based on the borrower's credit
history and / or other underwriting criteria
determined by the lender.
Length of Credit
History (15 %): Your length of credit history is determined by averaging the amount of time all of your accounts have bee
History (15 %): Your length of credit
history is determined by averaging the amount of time all of your accounts have bee
history is
determined by averaging the amount of time all of your accounts have been open.
Parent PLUS loans require a strong credit
history, and the maximum amount allowed is equal to the cost of attendance
determined by the school, less other financial assistance received.
Rates and terms offered
by our Service Providers are
determined solely
by each individual Service Provider and will likely vary depending on your particular credit
history and other circumstances.
The
history of Christianity was not
determined by social forces.
Evil, from a historical perspective, is
determine by those who write the
history.
This is a simplification of the complex Hindu understanding of
history as
determined by the past lives of others: that we are all stuck in an eternal cycle of suffering perpetuated
by reincarnation.
In the course of that same
history, and in the context of crises posed
by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to
determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.
The prophets had declared that
history takes place within a moral order
determined by the will of God.
Jeffress said the church's fundraising consultant, Doug Turner, had
determined that this is the largest building program undertaken
by a single congregation in recent
history.
There is no
history merely of men and events, since these are
determined by the impingement of God's life and will on the plane of human
history.
The word «nihilism» has a complex
history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely
determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.
Legend retains from the rubrics of
history only the concern for sequence; yet in legend it is always a sequence
determined not
by past event but
by present faith.
But
by and large the interesting selections of respects in which to interpret things are
determined by culture, minutely modified
by personal
history and idiosyncrasy.
History does not evolve as a continuous process
determined by eternal rational principles.
As being can never be studied as an independent object, the
history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the
history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form,
determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words,
by the development of thought hitherto.
The French sociology of religion was characterized all through the nineteenth century
by the dominance of the tenets of the philosophy of
history as sociology, as developed
by Auguste Comte and his successors.2 Its course, methodology, and aims were
determined by students of sociology, not
by those of religion.
Altizer's response to this whole discussion was that the meaning of the word God in the spiritual
history of the world can not be
determined by a few theologians acting in the privacy of an academic discipline.
Let us be specific about what it means to say we live in that
history which is
determined by the reign of Christ in conflict with his enemies.
Instead of believing with Hartshorne that man's convictions about the ultimate character of reality can and should be
determined by allegedly neutral logical principles, the understanding here being argued is that man's thinking about God is and should be governed
by a vision emerging in the context of faith, a vision that is itself decisively conditioned
by its rootage in
history and in the prereflective levels of consciousness.
The God of the biblical narrative is not an unmoved mover, majestic monarch or all -
determining controller of
history who is untouched
by the vagaries of time and change.
These doctrines mean that man's freedom finds no situation or material for its own decision that have not already also been partly
determined by the guilt of mankind, and till the end of
history - it will not be possible wholly to eliminate this burden of guilt.
This equivocal character of the objectivations of freedom when reflecting on its original nature is increased
by the fact that the material on which it must be exercised is always also
determined and formed
by the guilt at the beginning of the
history of the spirit.
In this relation to one's fellow men dialogical freedom enters
history even more deeply, because it is concerned not only with the sovereign God, but also with the decisions of human beings,
by which it is
determined and which, in certain situations, it has to
determine itself.
Again, it would be impossible, because no man can adopt a view of the world
by his own volition — it is already
determined for him
by his place in
history.
Either we have refused or for some other reason failed frankly and joyously to avow the fact that the God of all nature and
history has made himself known to us in Christ, or else we have drawn unwarranted inferences from this fact or defined its meaning in ways not
determined by the fact itself, at the same time insisting that all others should do the same.
If he really meant what he said (and one is almost certain to decide that he did), was his meaning
determined and limited
by his expectation of the imminent end of
history, about which we were thinking in the preceding lecture?
In this the church is wrong, so far as the death and resurrection of Jesus are understood merely as given facts of
history which may be
determined and established
by evidence.
Indeed, they are the ones who continue to carry the
history to help us learn from our past so that our future will not be
determined by the temptation to live unforgiven and thus unskillful lives.
This can not be discarded in
determining the definition of marriage since it is a fact of life, which has been recognised
by every society in
history that has used marriage as a social institution.
Present states or movements in the inorganic arena appear to us to be
determined totally
by the
history of past commotion in the macroscopic order as described
by classical physics.
This may not be due merely to their weaker theological talents, but may indicate a positive insight: although
history is
determined by present possibilities and decisions, it can not be dissolved into a series of present situations.
In this method of examining a particular religious tradition, stress was laid upon
determining what social needs were being met through religious beliefs and practices
by a culture at a particular point in its
history.
Smart people among us know that the New Testament is an elected collection of books
determined by various Councils throughout the
history of the Church.
Tradition, while not at all divorced from
history, is nevertheless basically
determined by more than strictly historical concerns.
Israel understood her own
history and discovered its meaning, to be sure, in the mighty acts of God - the Lord's acts as
determined by the interaction of Word and word, and recognized as his acts only
by the instrument of the Word.