Sentences with phrase «evil of triviality»

«There is then the evil of triviality — a sketch in place of a full picture.

This is what Whitehead has named «the evil of triviality,» «a sketch in place of a full picture» (ESP 119), produced by «good people of narrow sympathies who are apt to be unfeeling and unprogressive.

When Whitehead argues that the degradation of triviality is evil «by comparison with what might have been,» he equates the evil of triviality with genuine evil (RM 94).

Also, what Whitehead calls the «evil of triviality» must count as genuine evil (MG 697).

The man degraded to the level of a hog commits the evil of triviality by becoming less than what he could have become.

Not exact matches

In this stage of precision, the metaphysical scheme has in an important, reformable way interpreted the final opposites of experience in terms of God and the world: «In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World....

In the section on the «Ideal Opposites» in Process and Reality, Whitehead lists the one and the many among the other contrasts of joy and sorrow, good and evil, flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity.

Evil actions are «dismissed into their triviality of merely individual facts.»

In fact, the intensity of evil may be preferred to the triviality of some dead - level achievement of harmony, for the intense clash may be capable of resolution at a much higher level of complexity.

Although God wrings some good from every evil, «the revolts of destructive evil, purely self - regarding, are dismissed into their triviality of merely individual facts (PR 346/525).

The revolts of destructive evil, purely self - regarding, are dismissed into their triviality of merely individual facts; and yet the good they did achieve in individual joy, in individual sorrow, in the introduction of needed contrast, is yet saved by its relation to the completed whole.

Creative advance, Whitehead says, takes place only along the borders of chaos26 In the transition from triviality toward intensity of enjoyment there is always the risk of the evil of disorder.

22 In the world's transition from triviality toward aesthetic intensity there is the omnipresent risk of evil.

But unnecessary triviality is also evil, since it also detracts from the maximization of enjoyment.

In a processive world - view the option for monotonous triviality would be an option for evil inasmuch as it turns aside from the pursuit of value, a pursuit that aims for the continual enrichment and intensification of physical reality, consciousness and life.

Discord and unnecessary triviality are the central components of evil situations.

We may grasp this aesthetic notion of value more firmly if we contrast it with the notion of evil, the contrary of value.10 Evil is a quality associated with trends, persons or phenomena that remain in or degenerate into chaos or triviality when the possibility of harmony and intensity is in fact open to tevil, the contrary of value.10 Evil is a quality associated with trends, persons or phenomena that remain in or degenerate into chaos or triviality when the possibility of harmony and intensity is in fact open to tEvil is a quality associated with trends, persons or phenomena that remain in or degenerate into chaos or triviality when the possibility of harmony and intensity is in fact open to them.