Sentences with phrase «dialectical opposites»

When the sacred and the profane are understood as dialectical opposites whose mutual negation culminates in a transition or metamorphosis of each into its respective Other, then it must appear that a Christian and eschatological coincidentia oppositorum in this sense is finally a coming together or dialectical union of an original sacred and the radical profane.

like its dialectical opposite, this view breaks down pragmatically, and theoretically as well.

While «belonging to» is the a priori hermeneutical condition, alienating distanciation is its dialectical opposite and, according to Gadamer, is engendered by the interpreter's «effective historical consciousness» (wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewusstsein).

And of course the moment the absolute extreme was reached it would immediately become transformed into its dialectical opposite — friendship.

Not exact matches

Hence authentic human existence could be understood as culminating in faith, the movement of faith could be limited to the negation of «objectivity,» and no occasion need arise for the necessity of a dialectical coincidence of the opposites.

Yet this grace can not be realized or fulfilled until it culminates in the cessation of the very memory of sin: indeed, Kierkegaard underwent his second conversion or «metamorphosis» only when he finally came to realize that God had forgotten his sin, and then wrote The Sickness Unto Death, whose dialectical thesis is that sin is the opposite not of virtue but of faith.

In general it means the dialectical (not dualistic) movement of God's total being into his «opposite,» the world of flesh - in - history, or historical being in flesh.

The conditions of synthesis are not the dialectical antagonism of opposites, but aesthetic contrast among ideal forms, and between these forms and the occasion's inheritance.

Though God and the world are, for Whitehead, opposites, they complete one another through a flowing dialectical interaction which lacks the marked polar tension of Buber's «meeting» or «over-againstness.»

The truth of this (as was shown under 1) is inherent in the dialectical fact that the self is a synthesis [of two factors], one of which is the opposite of the other.

It is not obviously true that Whitehead's categorical scheme is dialectical, or exhibits explicitly the «dialectical struggle of opposites» (ANW 92).

But the dialectic is not simply cyclical (things passing into their opposites and back again indefinitely); the dialectical is fundamentally one - directional and telic.

This continuing dialectical transformation moves toward a culmination in Christian atheism precisely because authentic Christian tradition must reflect the dialectical movement of God, who emptied himself into Christ and by the death of Christ became universally immanent in cosmos and consciousness and continues there to move on toward the final identity of opposites in which God will be all in all.

Altizer uses this idea, but only as the ultimate goal of a dialectical process that has already emptied the transcendent God into man and cosmos and will eventually pour every opposite into a final identity.

These are not opposites on a dialectical collision course but two poles of one momentary experience.

In view of his supposed rejection of any static logic of identity and contradiction, it is not without interest that Altizer can not acknowledge a dialectical relationship that comes to terms with a coincidence of real opposites but only with such an understanding of dialectics as will lead to its own destruction by the annihilation of the polarity in a final, posthistorical, permanent identity.

I have suggested that hierarchy and equality are interrelated poles rather than absolute opposites and their relation to freedom is dialectical and not linear.

Significant for our purposes is his development of dialectical logic, presupposing existing opposites that flow into each other, combine in a hierarchy, and participate both structurally and historically in a totality of reality that he called the Absolute.

To read Slug through this gift of words (albeit someone else's) as «an extension of the interior life of the giver, both in space and time, into the interior life of the receiver» [2] allows us to perceive the slug in its dialectical sense: as a $ 50 gold coin, for sure, but also its opposite, a counterfeit, a token used to subvert a slot machine's understanding of exchange value.

The word dialectical means bringing opposites together, which in the case of DBT means that therapists are accepting clients as they are while also recognizing that they need to take action and make changes to succeed in their goals.

The opposite of resistance is acceptance, of course, and a number of therapeutic modalities address this well, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, for example, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.