Sentences with phrase «direct intuition»

Whitehead explicitly argues that basic»... religious experience does not include any direct intuition of a definite person, or individual.

He argues that in Christian theology the existence of a personal God is based on an inference, not on direct intuition.

Rational religion»... appeals to the direct intuition of special occasions, and to the elucidatory power of its concepts for all occasions.»

Whitehead writes that there is wide agreement that «religious experience does not include any direct intuition of a definite person, or individual.

Moreover, since that must be where we enjoy subjective immediacy, it must be durational in order to account for our direct intuition of enduring subjective immediacy.

By what Whitehead styled «the appeal to the direct intuition of special occasions --» he was referring to the primitive days of the Church in which Jesus» impact was known as a reality — we may possess, and Christian conviction affirms that we do possess, a key or clue «of universal validity, to be applied by faith to the ordering of all experience.»

In such an act, I can hold before my consciousness my initial representation of the pie and the successive experiences on my way into the kitchen (and I am aware of them as being past and as having been present to me), and I can recognize that the direct intuition of the pie is the fulfillment of the prior experiences.

As a final example, consider another observation made by Husserl about the fulfillment structure which obtains between and among various experiences.2 We are all aware of the difference between the mere representing of an object to consciousness by thinking about it, and the direct intuition of the object itself which is the fulfillment of the former.

Weak human nature will not let us believe in the promises of God with a confidence that purges from the soul the anguish of fear and unbelief, the Anfechtungen... Therefore, in Luther's discovery of justification the Christian was liberated from the self - imposed requirement to present a perfect mental attitude to God, to confuse belief with knowledge, faith with the direct intuition of an observed world.

In our memory of our immediately preceding experience, we have direct intuition of that experience actively forming the present.

I conclude, therefore, that if Hartshorne's argument is successful, this can only be because it shows that we have not only a direct intuition of God but also a direct intuition of God as eminently psychical, and hence also think or consciously realize that the inclusive whole of which we experience ourselves to be parts is a universal subject of experience.

Thus, for all he shows to the contrary, the only thing in our concept of human knowledge that derives from our direct intuition of God is the idea of totality or all - inclusiveness, just as he himself allows that we can very well experience «the inclusive something» without experiencing it as «an inclusive experience» (1948, 39f.).

There are differences, finally, as to the relation between subject and object: whether the object is known through dialectical or analytical reasoning, scientific method, phenomenological insight into essence, or some form of direct intuition.

For Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensations.

«Religious intuition,» as analyzed, has two aspects, or directions of motion: (1) Singularity: religious intuition is a «direct intuition» which can not be resolved by general terms (rationality, metaphysics), but may only be experienced.

Christ represents rationalism derived from direct intuition and divorced from dialectics.

An obediential potentiality is one whose actualization goes beyond the natural, innate limitations of its subject, while not being irreconcilable with those limitations, e.g. the direct intuition of God in the beatific vision.

Their truth can not be established (or disestablished) by any privileged direct intuition of one's own experiencing, or by any direct, nondialectical inventory of the contents of one's own experience.

Indeed, Hartshorne's settled view seems to reject even the possibility of a direct intuition of the self (so CSPM 106,109,112,220; but cp.

«Knowing is a direct intuition,» a matter of «divine grace.»

Not exact matches

What business owners need is a direct line to their most valuable instincts that lets them bypass the static and get a clear message of what their intuition is telling them.

«The intuition is simple enough: our minds comprise the bulk of our human capital and what we direct our attention towards is integral to the «output» of our mental activity.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

Santayana thus identifies two aspects of mind or spirit, intuition of essences and intent directed upon things and processes in the natural world, and conceives knowledge as arising from their combination (see ED 350, 663 - 665 and 726).

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

However, he does hold that the goal towards which physical processes are directing the behavior of an animal finds conscious expression at the level of spirit by its intuition of the goal's essence under the form of the good.

Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally — these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.

With the removal of symbolic reference and its concomitant abstract analysis, there may be a direct experiencing or envisioning through heightened intuition.

But the individual is held to have a moral principle or intuition directing each to the well being of others generally.

Introspection is actually a weaker claim than intuition since it involves not a total lack of mediation but simply a direct knowledge of the internal world not derived from external observation.

Even the direct contact of the self with the self, the primary instance of intuition must be preceded by a great number of psychological analyses.

Until then contemplation was discussed as a way of understanding unchanging things that combined discursive reasoning, or coming to understanding by a process of thinking things through, and immediate intuition, coming to understanding by a kind of intellectual direct «seeing» of how things unchangingly are.

But when world leaders with nuclear weapons, as an extreme example, make serious global decisions because they believe their mythology to be history and their intuition to be the voice of the invisible man in the sky directing their actions — that makes me terrified!

Specific lines of inquiry will include: engaging complexity (developing tools to support learners to engage with complex contemporary issues); developing global thinking / competence (fostering perspective taking, empathy, recognizing perspectives); transfer of learning; balancing reflection and intuition; and emergent aspects of learning (how some understandings and skills may emerge best through bottom - up processes as rather than through direct instruction).

Specific lines of inquiry include: engaging complexity (developing tools to support learners to engage with complex contemporary issues); developing global thinking / competence (fostering perspective taking, empathy, recognizing perspectives); transfer of learning; balancing reflection and intuition; and emergent aspects of learning (how some understandings and skills may emerge best through bottom - up processes as rather than through direct instruction).

Intuition would say that a portfolio focused on companies with revenues coming from the U.S. would have little direct, or indirect, exposure to foreign currency movements.

The group chose «transcendental» for their name because they believed it implied a manner of expression that existed outside of nature, acknowledged intuition, and invoked that which eluded direct representation.

From the first encounter with monumental abstraction Untitled, the viewer remains deprived of determined impression, but initially disoriented, but directed on the shift of focus into his own instincts and intuition.

In direct contrast to the surrealist notion of a solitary dream space, the twins have described a shared intuition and subconscious experience that is translated visually through their collaborative process.

That's why I kept the argument in the top post above simple — limited to addressing only Jelbring and the EEJ paper so we could do adiabatic apples to apples reasoning, limited to a picture that even people who don't know much physics can understand — anybody who has tried to touch the handle of a heating pan and found it hot to the touch has direct experience of Fourier's Law, so whether or not they fully understand the algebra they know this happens — and appealing to their intuition as much as to the letter of the various forms of the second law (there are at least four or five that I know of offhand).

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They have also enhanced my intuition and direct understanding of how, where and why to apply technology to solve specific business problems.

Although a program's theory of change often develops out of practitioners» direct experience and intuition, it may also be grounded in more formal human development theories.

Professionals: therapists, art therapists, counselors, nurses and other helping professionals find a creative way to work with their clients that goes beyond words and concepts, one that provides direct experiential access to intuition, insight, and transformation.