Sentences with phrase «dialectical sense»

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.

However, it is only in one sense, in a purely dialectical sense, that he who is unconscious of despair is further away from truth and salvation than the man who is conscious of his despair and yet remains in it.

Faith, in this consistently dialectical sense, must oppose or negate a sacred that is an unmoving Eternity or a quiescent Totality.

Not exact matches

But beyond the requirements of Whitehead's ontological principle, we can, even if we doubt the legitimacy of dialectical logic, be sympathetic to the Hegelian view that God is in some sense a necessity for rational thought.

And it was in this sense that Marx, advocating a dialectical rather than a simplistic materialism, stressed that «ideas become a material force once they have laid hold of the masses» (AD 74).

Nevertheless, inasmuch as each articulated one side of a basic religious polarity, they are necessarily complementary visions the solution to such historical oppositions and antagonisms is, therefore, a dialectical one — not in the Hegelian or Marxian sense of dialectic, but through a dialectic which acknowledges both sides of those paradoxes intrinsic to the religious situation.

Hegel was wrong, so far as I can tell, about most things, but he was right at least about this: the movement of thought is, in the sense just mentioned, dialectical.

While I believe that Christianity is called to a negation and reversal of both the way to and all images of a primordial Totality, I nevertheless believe that such negation should be dialectical in the Hegelian sense, and therefore it must ultimately entail an affirmation of the primordial Totality.

Having spoken thus and moved the audience so that at least they had sensed the dialectical conflict of faith and its gigantic passion, I would not give rise to the error on the part of the audience that «he then has faith in such a high degree that it is enough for us to hold on to his skirts.»

Dialectical thinking requires that whenever we make a statement about God, such as «God is all - powerful,» we also allow that in some sense that God is weak and powerless.

But these activities, if dialectical, are not so in the sense of «struggling to circumvent the formal - logical law of contradiction.»

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.

Every sociological analysis of mine is answered (not in the sense of replying, but in that of noting the other dialectical pole) by a biblical or theological analysis.

Resembling dancing ribbons or darting wavelengths, these cast stainless steel sculptures are coated in dense black and evanescent white paint respectively, creating a dialectical evocation of these vital senses.

In Skaer's undoing of the «thingness» of these familiar objects one senses in the artworks a dialectical steadying and loosening of the bounds of a grounding in space and time - so many oblongs stood upon squares.