Not exact matches
In a field where
subjectivity has ruled
for years, data adds a new layer of assuredness.
In an industry characterized by large retainer fees and less - than - scientific outcome measurement and
subjectivity, be careful and cautious: Here are five things to look
for when assessing which PR agency to hire:
Removing gatekeepers»
subjectivity and prejudices from the process will not only help level the playing field
for candidates today, but also ensure a lower barrier
for entry
for underrepresented talent pools
in the future.
Other issues he is considering
for future iterations are ways to lessen the
subjectivity of how experience levels are determined, factoring
in a country's tax rate, and a better solution
for the few employees who lack a fixed location.
In the secular world, Luther has come to stand for the overthrow of traditional authority in favor of individual subjectivit
In the secular world, Luther has come to stand
for the overthrow of traditional authority
in favor of individual subjectivit
in favor of individual
subjectivity.
Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant,
in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution»
in thought
for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely
in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be
in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the
subjectivity of individual knowing.
Without any institutional factors the other person would exist
for me only
in so far as I permitted it, so that I would still regard him only as an element of my own
subjectivity.
In that way it counters our easy tendency toward subjectivity and individualism while also providing a context in which the quest for joy may be freely pursue
In that way it counters our easy tendency toward
subjectivity and individualism while also providing a context
in which the quest for joy may be freely pursue
in which the quest
for joy may be freely pursued.
Isolated from both the natural and the transcendent realms, the human creature has become its own creator, an autonomous consciousness existing
for itself, despite the fact that
in our own time the human consciousness has become a solitary
subjectivity progressively dissolving itself.
An equally important reason
for the divine self - limitation would be that God's own
subjectivity and desire
for personic freedom required that he create a world
in which contingency existed (DN 67).
4
In addition to his article
in the present volume, see e.g., «A Whiteheadian Basis
for Pannenberg's Theology,» Encounter 38 (1977): 307 - 17; «A Dialogue About Process Philosophy» (with Wolfhart Pannenberg), Encounter 38 (1977): 318 - 24; «God as the
Subjectivity of the Future,» Encounter 41 (1980): 287 - 92; «The Divine Activity of the Future,» Process Studies 11/3 (Fall 1981): 169 - 79; and «Creativity
in a Future Key,»
in New Essays
in Metaphysics, ed.
For Whitehead, every
subjectivity (i.e., every actual entity
in process of concrescence) is a distinct actuality.
For purposes of analysis, this element of the feeling of
subjectivity may be distinguished as the «quality of anticipated relevance,» although it is
in fact inseparable from the quality of self - worth.
When this occurs, the inherently self - surpassing quality of the feelings of
subjectivity, which may either overreach themselves
in an expansive quality that knows no bounds or else become blocked by retrogressive and discordant tendencies, instead forms the basis
for the religious mode of experience «at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).
In sum:
for Marx, consciousness,
subjectivity, ideal aims (e.g., the classless society) are fully as important as are the persuasive agencies
for Whitehead and, vice versa,
for Whitehead the senseless agencies are fully as important as are the economic conditions
for Marx.
In this essay we shall primarily be concerned with the ontological basis
for subjectivity by recounting Whitehead's various theories about it.
Death does not simply happen once
in a lifetime,
for this loss of one's own
subjectivity is a perpetual occurrence, from moment to moment.
Experience or
subjectivity that lacks consciousness is also a value
for itself and
in itself.
As consciousness of one's separateness grows, it becomes more and more difficult to overcome the distance through relation; heightened insecurity and need
for decision produce an ever greater temptation to accentuate the distance and take refuge
in the pseudosecurity of the world of It, the world of ordered objectivity and private
subjectivity.
I think that Birch's setting of the problem is essentially correct and that his solution
in terms of attributing
subjectivity to all entities, even particles, does show a necessary condition
for emergence
in evolution.
This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist
in the immediate
subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (
in their full, warm, subjective immediacy)
in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum
for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground
for truth claims about the past.
When, instead, attention is directed to this same process as it exists
for itself,
in its immediacy and
subjectivity, existence is employed.
Subjectivity is injected into even this process of social understanding, but not
for the purpose of seeking understanding,
for itself alone; rather it believes
in and calls
for the indivisible salvation of the whole world.39
The knowledge or truth claims that have been constituted are valid
for that moment
in time (42) but will eventually be superseded by the generation of a new
subjectivity produced by another interaction between the text and the interpreter.
This doctrine is popularly termed «objective immortality» yet Whitehead's term is «everlastingness» (always
in quotes, as
for example PR 347), because he had already used «objective immortality»
for the temporal shift from
subjectivity to objectivity.
The truth that emerges
in and through this new
subjectivity, generated by the interaction between text and reader may be ephemeral, exerting its claim
for but a moment.
For the unity of an actual entity
in its process of coming to be is precisely its unification or growth together (concrescence), which is its
subjectivity as experienced from within.
This much, however, is clear: while modern man may be wrong
in identifying his ego with his
subjectivity, he is undoubtedly right
in regarding it
in its subjective aspect as a unity, and
in refusing to allow any room
for alien powers to interfere
in his subjective life.
For example,
in Kant's philosophy there is a great deal of discussion concerning the nature of
subjectivity.
For a critique of the categories of quality, something, etc., as categories of
subjectivity, cf. K. Lowith, Des Individuum
in der Rolle des Mitmenschen II, 2, § § 12 - 14.
From this viewpoint it makes good sense that Whitehead describes the actual entity
in categories of
subjectivity and thus makes methodic use of the analogy of human
subjectivity.34
For actual entities are not to be treated simply from the outside, as objects to which other objects stand as past, simultaneous, or future.
For example, in order to salvage the «core» of Christian faith for the scientifically informed, Rudolf Bultmann argued that revelation has to do primarily with God's address to the hidden subjectivity and inner freedom of each pers
For example,
in order to salvage the «core» of Christian faith
for the scientifically informed, Rudolf Bultmann argued that revelation has to do primarily with God's address to the hidden subjectivity and inner freedom of each pers
for the scientifically informed, Rudolf Bultmann argued that revelation has to do primarily with God's address to the hidden
subjectivity and inner freedom of each person.
Christian theology,
for example, continues to locate the arena of mystery primarily
in the areas of history or existential
subjectivity rather than nature.
«A freedom open to new creation is
in fact less centered on
subjectivity, on personal authenticity, than on social and political justice; it calls
for a reconciliation which itself demands to be inscribed
in the recapitulation of all things.
I would suggest more concretely that Christian mission involves joining Dalits and Adivasis
in their resistance to the homogenizing world vision of Hindutva while at the same time enabling them to posit their particular
subjectivities into a framework of human community
for the nation - state.
Merleau - Ponty's appreciation of Whitehead's views of the immanence and transcendence of nature, temporal duration, the insertion of time
in nature as opposed to reserving it
for a disconnected realm of
subjectivity and the Gestalt structure of present and past, all find a home
in The Visible and the Invisible (see especially VIV 184 -185,190-191,194-195).
«Concrescence» thus offered a way
in which «the complete conceptual realization of the realm of ideal forms» (Religion 154) could be reintroduced,
for it need not connote the difficulty of nontemporal
subjectivity.
While Whitehead himself conceived God
in nonsubjectivist ways, thinking that the nontemporal must be like eternal objects, he allowed
for the possibility of nontemporal
subjectivity in this fourth chapter.
Also
in this passage Whitehead somewhat incautiously uses some terms
for conceptual realization that might suggest
subjectivity, or at least «concrescence.»
Because stories now appear to be anchorless, flowing as they do from the caprice of a groundless
subjectivity, it is little wonder that they provide us with no solid sustenance
in our own search
for meaning.
In this respect, he interacts with what is given — naturally, historically, and in the immediacy of his own subjectivity — to «make what was not» for the sake of fulfilling presently conceived moral end
In this respect, he interacts with what is given — naturally, historically, and
in the immediacy of his own subjectivity — to «make what was not» for the sake of fulfilling presently conceived moral end
in the immediacy of his own
subjectivity — to «make what was not»
for the sake of fulfilling presently conceived moral ends.
While it is easiest to grasp the prius of creativity - esse
in the human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of
subjectivity (which
for process thinkers does not imply consciousness!)
We humans have «life,» «decision» «
subjectivity,» and «enjoyment» only
in the process of concrescence.7 Thus, creativity's role
in accounting
for the concrescence of an actual entity has a certain priority over its role
in accounting
for the transition between actual entities, although a full understanding of either role requires reference to the other.
Second, Bleich himself shows a marked propensity
for subjectivity and halakhic change
in establishing the psak, the final halakhic ruling.
will cease
in a moment to have such
subjectivity and will become an object
for new occasions of experience.
For Bleich this has taken on the character of a non-issue: change and
subjectivity in the halakhah just can not be.
Since
in the rest of the world besides ourselves processes of «taking account of» are going on, be it
in electrons or atoms or cells, then it is logical to suppose that this subject - object relationship involves
subjectivity for these other entities.
For Merleau - Ponty, all the elements
in an environment influence a person
in some way, but a person's subjective attitude toward the elements conditions those elements, and the person's decision about his environment feeds back into the environment
in such a way that the surrounding world would not be the world it is without the conditioning
subjectivity of the surrounded decider.
«Existence,»
for an existentialist and phenomenologist, is life as it is attributable only to human subjects (PP 166), because
subjectivity is presumed only to be found
in human persons.
Again, I'm totally open to the idea it is my own defensiveness,
subjectivity, etc getting
in the way, and apologize
for not being more concise.