I try to say complicated things in a simple way — death,
existential thought processes and anxiety.
Not exact matches
Bultman's use of
existential categories and Cobb's use of
process thought can not be explained in terms of biblical reflection but must be explained in terms of the influence of secular modernity.
Instead it involves an assertion (in
process thought) and an
existential realization (in Zen) that one's self is at every moment a unification, directly or indirectly, of the universe.
It further suggests that man is bound by
existential necessities stemming from his spatiotemporal embodiment, and that fulfillment of his freedom and rationality depends upon conforming the
processes of
thought to the elemental demands of necessity through loyalty to the rule of noncontradiction.
If we
think of a world view in terms of
process philosophy, we can develop a way of
thinking that takes account of both
existential analysis and external reality.
On the other hand, the popularity of Kushner's book, and the solace that it has given many who have undergone profound personal loss (like Kushner himself), demonstrates the
existential appeal and usefulness of
process thought when properly and simply expressed.
Cypher notes: «On an
existential level, it really begins with the impulse to create... the wanting of ideas to be actualized; to see that energy manifest into physical form... In terms of what I do physically, it's all about making marks that echo my
thought processes.
Greenberg saw the clotted and oil - caked surfaces as reflecting the artists»
existential struggle; Rosenberg saw the finished object as only a kind of residue of the actual work of art, which he
thought lay in the «
process» of the painting's creation.