For if the data of experience consisted only of universals, then the experiencing subject would have to infer the existence of other individual actual entities, just as Descartes claimed to infer
the existence of a real man in the street from the sense - data present to his eyes.
Not exact matches
Therefore, the realization
of the
existence of this Kingdom, working for its expansion, living according to its principles, and, if necessary, dying for it, is the
real significance
of man s temporary
existence upon the earth.
This attempts to make the soul - spirit distinction piggy - back upon the «
real» distinction
of essence and
existence; to maintain not only
man's essential transcendence from the creator but the existential possibility
of him becoming one with God.
In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline
of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring
of the dialogical or event - character
of man's existence and of the relation between God and M
man's
existence and
of the relation between God and
ManMan.
In Buber «is» and «ought» join without losing their tension in the precondition
of authentic human
existence — making
real the life between
man and
man.
Mention is
of course made
of the historical and
real beginning but not as something simply past, but as it still endures now, present in
man as the foundation
of his
existence.
The understanding
of Christianity as a
real transformation
of man's
existence, if on the one hand it impels philosophical refection towards a new approach to religion, on the other, it encourages it not to lose confidence in being able to know reality.»
Some, while admitting it to have a
real existence, imagine that it sleeps in a state
of insensibility from Death to the Judgment - day, when it will awake from its sleep; while others will sooner admit anything than its
real existence, maintaining that it is merely a vital power which is derived from arterial spirit on the action
of the lungs, and being unable to exist without body, perishes along with the body, and vanishes away and becomes evanescent till the period when the whole
man shall be raised again.
At the same time there are other aspects
of man's
existence which are as
real as his involvement in nature.
«Christ» here stands for the new order
of relationships between
men and God and among
men, the new and divine community, which is preeminently heavenly and eschatological but which in a
real though partial sense has come into historical
existence with the event and in which the believer is already incorporated.
Technology is, in essence, a mode
of human
existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that
man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that such revealing «reveals the
real as standing - reserve.»
And that is the very reason you atheists always mentions some «invisible
man in the sky» — you're trying to deny the
existence of Jesus who was a
real person you can't deny...
Dan the
Man, the historical writings
of Jesus by his followers only 100 years after his death are stronger evidence
of his
existence than we have for many other figures accepted as
real.
The
real meaning
of eschatological
existence and
of the renewal
of man is discernible only in the light
of the revelation
of God in Christ.
Naturally this oversimplifies the
real difficulties and complexities involved in creating good or great literature, whether by
man or woman, but it still gives a clue as to the possibility
of the
existence of Emily Brönte or an Emily Dickinson, and the lack
of their counterparts, at least until quite recently, in the visual arts.