In the pattern of individual life
this dialectic takes the form of impulse and control.
Not exact matches
Not so clear is whether Hartshorne
takes his
dialectic to explicate some current use of the term «experience», or whether he
takes himself to be constructing a new sense — a sense that will capture for the first time the true essence of experience (cf. CSPM 33,60, 81, 90,92, 105, 154,155,231,282,288; also, e.g., MVG 19).
Solzhenitsyn's work
takes such sweeping
dialectics to task as symptomatic of the modern predilection to reduction through abstraction.
Legions of spoiled children raised by doting but utterly well - meaning parents are sad evidence of this complex moral
dialectic of giving and
taking.
A second cue is
taken from Bernard Lonergan's understanding of a
dialectic between communal experience and communal expression.
But rhetoric is not to be confused with
dialectic: the techniques of persuasion, in fact, can not be reduced to the art of proof; they
take into consideration the dispositions of the audience and the character of the orator.
Interpretation, however, is intended to be the
taking up again, in a different discourse, of an internal
dialectic of testimony.
I
take Dr. Altizer to hold that all important human meaning
takes part in the
dialectic process.
We have to go forward to a post-modern humanism that
takes the
dialectics of the human spirit at work in human creativity and destructivity more seriously.
Consequently, this letting go
takes up from and continues the Kantian meditation on the transcendental illusion as presented in the section on «
Dialectic» in the first Critique.
For goodness is to give oneself away completely, but in such a way that by omnipotently
taking oneself back one makes the recipient independent... Only a wretched and mundane conception of the
dialectic of power holds that it is greater in proportion to its ability to compel and to make dependent.16
Probably it belongs to the
dialectics of history that direct human association with unique historical individuals, the savior and his mother, had to develop before any adequate feeling for the mystique of the earth could
take place.
Take his choice to conceive of the central tension within Pentecostalism as a
dialectic of «primitivism and pragmatism.»
Luther's use of
dialectic («man is totally free... man is absolutely bound») to reach the existential affirmation that it was only through grace that man could
take the smallest step at all towards anything spiritually good, enunciated with Luther's dogmatism, seemed to be an attack on the whole civilised Christian tradition of good letters: devoted, refined and peaceful.
Despite the many books that continue to be published on the topic, «New Testament ethics» is a misleading category, confusing historical constructions with normative judgments, eliding difficult questions about the nature of a scriptural canon, and above all failing to
take with sufficient seriousness the
dialectic between the formation of a community and the development of the community's norms of belief and behavior.»
Niesslein knew women deserved a more intelligent and realistic
take on motherhood: something that packed more brain power than Barney versus Pooh
dialectics.
In Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy, Sovacool, Brown, and Valentine make clever use of the Hegelian
dialectic to
take on 15 core energy questions (e.g., «Do conventional energy resources have a meaningful «peak»?»)
The fact that the festival happens on a street level — essentially asking all visitors to
take on the role of the eternal flaneur (the very concept of which suggests the participant - observer
dialectic)-- breaks down the barriers between gallery and street, art and life.»
In the first chapter, Xiao Yu
takes the craft model ofThe Liaoning — China's first aircraft carrier — as a primer and sample to be a metaphor of the era of consumption: when the most advanced weapon been made into a craft model with the nature of exchange as gifts, its practicality had been transformed into aesthetics and consumptions; meanwhile, it enters into a rapid cycle which was internalized in its status as a consumable — it is this «quick update», together with «rapid abandonment / oblivion», that consist the paradoxical
dialectics of contemporary life.
I shall
take this opportunity to remind people that here is a seeking of the sacred hydrological truth through
dialectic.