Sentences with phrase «element of human experience»

As DAS INSTITUT, the artists attempt to communicate the inexpressible — the intuitive, irrational element of human experience and relationships.

Together they interpret every element of human experience.

Life is about learning and growing — whether or not I agree with someone, I certainly respect that faith (or the conclusion, after genuine reflection, that there's nothing to believe in) is among the most personal elements of the human experience.

Where are the elements of the human experience that reflect your deeply held beliefs, thoughts, and relationships?

She wishes to create links through her work to elements of human experience, particularly by engaging with emotional experience and familiar physical objects which are related to themes of nostalgia, hope, pleasure, despair and mortality.

It is a work that encapsulates his multicultural practice, balanced on the knife's edge between those essential yet polarised elements of human experience: the sacred and the profane.

Not exact matches

We believe that if the law on collective worship were repealed schools would risk losing this vital element of shaping a community that reflects the full breadth of human experience.

A moment of human experience is largely constituted by its inclusion of elements of previous experience, elements derived from the body, and elements derived from the larger world.

The saga showcases elements of truth — truth about the human experience, the cosmos, the character of a hero, and the nature of life itself.

And it is because of this, it is because there exists in you this ineffable synthesis of what our human thought and experience would never have dared join together in order to adore them — element and totality, the one and the many, mind and matter, the infinite and the personal; it is because of the indefinable contours which this complexity gives to your appearance and to your activity, that my heart, enamoured of cosmic reality, gives itself passionately to you.

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

The element of truth in this view of the supernatural is the obvious fact that religious experience is only possible to beings with mental or spiritual capacities, i.e., to human beings.

However much we recognize a profound ontological difference between elements of the world, including a fundamental difference between ourselves, many philosophers of religion want to say that God knows and empathizes with human experience in a way similar to divine relativity for several reasons: omniscience, a resolution to theodicy, and ontological unity.

Because of this, and because human experience is so complex, conscious introspection is not the best way to examine experience for its most fundamental elements.

The latter mode, which constitutes the «given» element in human experience, occurs prior to the rise of the interpretative element, and is therefore not culturally conditioned.

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

At their most successful, restorers retrieve from the incommunicable past something of two elements the world too often otherwise does without: the experience of the truly human and the surprising holy.

If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.

It is significant that there are an increasing number of those who believe that God's life itself must be conceived as having an element of adventure and movement into an open future, else we can not conceive that He enters sympathetically into our human experience.23

In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us -LSB-...] In all knowledge and in every act of love the human soul experiences something «over and above», which seems very much like a gift that we receive, or a height to which we are raised.»

But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.

Thus he concludes by holding that experience of God is an essential moment in all human experience: «man's awareness of God is no mere contingent extension of his awareness of himself, but is rather an indispensable element of that awareness....

What this suggests to us is that religion, as an inescapable element in that human experience, is one of the ways — indeed it may be the chief way — in which man feels his way into, finds identification with, and becomes participant in, the ongoing «movement of things».

of human experience.6 In all fairness the image could be inverted, for theology has failed to include in its explanations «lower» elements of experience (sexuality, family relations, human psychological development), which is equally reductionist.7

Both saw that some human pain and torment are punitive, that some trouble is disciplinary was taken for granted, that in one way or another the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory, that the whole experience of suffering remained mysterious, but that the climactic element in the New Testament's contribution to the understanding of suffering is to be found in its treatment of vicarious self - sacrifice.

Worship, we have seen, is an indestructible element in human experience; and in the Christian tradition it is inextricably associated with the faith and the moral life of the believers in the community that responds to the action of the living God in Christ.

In terms of the above discussion of what is truly primary in human experience, we are now in a position to understand a statement in which Whitehead summarizes how the «more concrete fact» from which science abstracts should be conceived: «The emotional appetitive elements in our conscious experience are those which most closely resemble the basic elements of all physical experience» (PR 248).

The new unity goes deep, It implies a continuity in origin of the subjective elements of individuals which we recognize so clearly in our human experience.

Whitehead's discussion of subhuman actual entities follows from the principles discussed above, viz., that there is only one genus of actual entities, that one's present experience constitutes the standard for defining actuality, and that subhuman actualities can be conceived in terms of the primary elements in human experience.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

Humans continually use abstracted elements of experience, associate them with a contextual framework of meaning, and even suggest a particular world which they represent (MT 34).

There is no absolute freedom in human experience, and elements of arbitrariness, accident, and determinism enter into any relationship.

There must be some quality, somehow analogous to greenness, that they do possess and contribute to the experience, but the human occasion is here introducing an element of novelty.

Or it may well be that it is elements, perhaps «religious» elements, of our «common human experience» that ultimately justify our becoming part of some congregation's common life.

He insists on the importance of the «feeling - tones», the aesthetic element in all experience, and the reality of human experiences of value.

Thus, Christianity is not an element among others in European culture, but its very form, the form that enables it to remain open to whatever can come from the outside and enrich the hoard of its experiences with the human and the divine.

These seem, on the surface, to be forms of foundationalism.16 Whitehead seems to be of two minds about these concepts, usually treating them as abstractions from fully concrete human experience, which includes transmuted contents synthesized from these elements.

Only then is nature the basis of his own human experience and a vital element of human reality.

For a view that applies the technical Whiteheadian view of society to human societies, the theological notion that the Jesus - event is the common element of form that is the defining characteristic of the society called the church, see Lee, Bernard, SM., The Becoming of the Church: A Process Theology of the Structures of Christian Experience (New York: Paulist Press, 1974), pp. 55 - 207.

«We are always looking for new technology and better systems, but the human element is key — our team members are focused and passionate about providing the perfect pizza experience,» says Ben Richardson, vice president of operations.

Amen about the traumatic element of birth - and the full spectrum of human experience.

But the key element of any seminar is, of course, the speaker, and herein lies a rich vein of human experience.

Individuals who reflect a range of human experiences are as integral to our day - to - day operation as they are to the scientific elements of our work.

Lately I've just experienced the human element of getting down in the dumps every now and then, but I haven't had a really altering state of depression in a while.

We take you through a complete internal process, an experience that becomes the strongest element of your definition as a human being and a yogi.

It's a formulaic tale of mistaken identities and boy hunting, but there's a concentration on human elements here that's rewarding, allowing for kindness and consideration to lead the experience.

This movie, scripted by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland - born filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers — of various experiences — facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down.

For classes that are taught mostly online, this kind of communication can be a real game changer, making it easier for students to connect with their teacher on a more personal level and bringing a human element to what can sometimes be an alienating experience.

But how frequently do we experience training that focuses on the human element of teacher - student interactions?

Interesting Natural and Human History are elements of every Santa Barbara Adventure Company experience.