Sentences with phrase «ecstatic existence»

To recognize that the world is a home for our contemplative understanding and that this ecstatic existence fulfills our nature is to recognize the goodness of the world.

So the «subjective turn» is a refusal of ecstatic existence, a stepping back from the world, in preparation for its domination by a now alien will and mind.

Rather than an expansion of the human, the modern «subjective turn» represents a refusal of ecstatic existence.

Not exact matches

The unity which the ecstatic experiences when he has brought all his former multiplicity into oneness is not a relative Unity, bounded by the existence of other individuals.

Perceiving Thomas in this way, Metz finds that «the worldliness of the world is not therefore originally conceived in a cosmocentric way as an already given, self - contained, and actual existent, which man encounters» 4 «Human existence — that is: ecstatic subjectivity; both — man and world — are synthesized a priori in the one being of man.»

Although dictionary.com defines Rapture as:» the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence» and this is a term used by many Christians regarding the second - coming of their Savior; it is also defined as: «ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy».

But when a former prison buddy informs Bronson, «You just pissed on a gypsy on the middle of fucking nowhere,» it pretty much sums up the film: Moments of ecstatic brutality that never amount to anything outside their own existence.

These nearly chaotic, adamantly physical works are a means of building some kind of ecstatic, exuberant, ever unfolding space analogous to our dense sensory existence.