Sentences with phrase «from dialectics»

Christ represents rationalism derived from direct intuition and divorced from dialectics.

Because Abts is neither a conceptualist nor a figurative painter, her work stood brazenly aloof from this dialectic.

In addition to introducing audiences to the multiple imaginations and voices that constitute today's African artists, the book will explore the way that this body of photo - based art arises from the dialectic of traditional African aesthetic values and Western influences.

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And I have sought to show, using Hartshorne as a concrete example, how a dialectical defense provides the ultimate support for one's claims about experience and its essential temporality and how that dialectic rests on claims quite remote from any direct or straightforward reading of experience, whether private or public.

My critique will be from within the context of evolution and dialectic, which both the Marxists and I accept.

Even if we deny that Jesus worked for transformation in the explicit sense of deriving the dialectic of individual and society from social structures, or beginning the process of transformation with changes in property and social relationships, it can not be overlooked that in an indirect sense, the manner in which Jesus thought and acted de facto broke open and transformed the social structures of the world in which he lived.7

But the modern Christian who sees time as creative, positive and humanizing finds the dialectic of withdrawal from time quite absurd, to say the least.

It is true of Aristotle too: the dialectic of act and potency that, for sublunary beings, is inseparable from decay and death, or the scale of essences by which all things — especially various classes of persons — are assigned their places in the natural and social order.

This is true even of Platonism, with its inextirpable dualism, its dialectic of change and the changeless (or of limit and the infinite), and its equation of truth with eidetic abstraction; the world, for all its beauty, is the realm of fallen vision, separated by a great chorismos from the realm of immutable reality.

Like the true philosopher, as opposed to the philodoxer, Koontz confines his work within the metaleptic reality whereby his novels emerge as a contemporary dialectics with the various protagonists engaged in rescuing the truth of reality from either the lie or the distortion.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Solzhenitsyn argues that the general overview — born from this witness — is more highly logical than dialectics because it contains more «reality.»

Any attempt to break loose from the path set out by Schleiermacher and to find a way in which to make the transcendent God our subject, rather than some aspect of ourselves, could be called an apophantic theology, standing as it does in that tradition of paradox or dialectic that marked the Cappadocian theologians and has always been a part of the theological tradition.

The lives of most men, being determined by a dialectic of indifference, are so remote from the good (faith) that they are almost too spiritless to be called sin, yes, almost too spiritless to be called despair.

One can not but notice the dialectic nature of the two motifs that can be extrapolated from the Paraiyars» goddess Ellaiyamman; particularity and universality; geographical locatedness and boundlessness; fixity and fluidity; determinedness and openness; resistance and assimilation.

For in another sense, an ethical - dialectic sense, the despairing man who consciously remains in despair is further from salvation, since his despair is more intense.

A second cue is taken from Bernard Lonergan's understanding of a dialectic between communal experience and communal expression.

The liberal secularism (freedom of religion) and the Marxist secularism (freedom from religion) are techniques which overlooked the need for a dialectics which would uncover the concrete forms of domination distorting both sacralism and secularism.

This dialectic provides categories, within our contemporary context, for discerning how communal expressions, when they are cut off from transformative communal experiences, become «objective» and «institutionalized» in ways which dichotomize subjects and objects, experiences and expressions.

(4) But this double character of the formation of the text, as well as its interpretation and reception, is a dialectic in which the act of faith persists and evidences from start to finish the guidance of God's Spirit of truth (Brueggemann).

It is indeed this capacity to exist, by belonging to a system of freedoms, which is postulated here; thereby is concretized «that perspective» (Aussicht), evoked from the beginning of the Dialectic, that view «into a higher immutable order of things, in which we already are, and in which, to continue our existence in accordance with the supreme decree of reason, we may now, after this discovery, be directed by definite precepts» (p. 112).

Augustine sorted out the dialectic of sin and grace with a movement from bondage to sin to liberty from sin.

That this postulated freedom is indeed freedom according to hope is, to my mind, what the other two postulates which frame it signify (following the order of the three parts of the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason, which runs from rational psychology to rational cosmology and to rational theology).

The Two Dialectics result from this initial division between Denken and Erkennen; and, with the two Dialectics, is thus born the question which sets in motion the philosophy of religion: What can I hope for?

Now this totality is not given but demanded; it can not be given, not only because the critique of the transcendental illusion accompanies it without fail, but because practical reason, in its dialectic, institutes a new antinomy; what it demands, in fact, is that happiness be added to morality; it thus requires to be added to the object of its aim, that this object may be whole, what it excluded from its principles, that they might be pure.

Apart from the initial conviction that knowledge is consummated in communion the dialectic of interpretation does not climax in transcendence but only reversal, in an infinite series of reversals: the antithesis simply becomes a new thesis, which is displaced by a new antithesis, ad infinitum.

Though we pay liturgical lip - service to the old dialectic, and still nominally observe Lent, in practice all our time now has become «ordinary time,» and there is nothing in this respect to distinguish Catholics from anyone else.

Consequently, this letting go takes up from and continues the Kantian meditation on the transcendental illusion as presented in the section on «Dialectic» in the first Critique.

William A. Beardslee speaks from a different perspective than that of Theodore Runyon, but both raise the important question of the meaning of the dialectic of faith, just as both pose the question of whether my position is dialectical or dualistic.

The irony is that far from amounting to a kind of neo-Gnosticism, Jung's thought — together with that of Barfield and the later Heidegger — could help prevent Altizer from producing, malgré lui, a dialectic of regression.23

«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.

The difficulty comes from the fact that nature is too abstract to have a dialectic with respect to time in the stricter sense.

The Hegelian dialectic derives ultimately from the Christian dialectic of death and resurrection.

From the simple dialectic of death and resurrection issues a monstrous system which denies the absolute validity of Christ's death and resurrection and, in the final analysis, can not explain the absolute authority of Jesus in history.

The psyche responds to this threat either by accepting its challenge and participating in the vitality of the dialectic constellated by the power of imagination, or else it recoils from the negativity involved in the imaginative projection of further possibilities.

Altizer, as we have seen, uses images from the world of mysticism: waiting, darkness, a new epiphany, the dialectic of opposites.

Herewith the catalogue précis: «Examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a theology of sexual stories from the margins is the focus of Indecent Theology.

Therefore, he projects them, separates them from himself, or, in terms of Hegel's dialectic, he alienates them from his everyday existence.

The mystification which dialectic suffers in Hegel's hands, by no means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of working in a comprehensive and conscious manner.

For just as a weight is infinitely heavier when it is attached to the end of a rod and the man who lifts it has to hold the opposite end, so every work becomes infinitely harder when it becomes dialectic, so that what love prompts one to do for the beloved, care for the beloved seems again in another sense to dissuade from doing.

Albert Camus has commented in his The Myth of Sisyphus on Kierkegaard's dialectic turning away from despair toward faith.

For Rahner, this dialectic not only encompasses but actually flows from God's own Being.

So here — about two miles from the death and destruction of Sept. 11, in a town where each morning 40,000 men and women boarded the ferry and the PATH train to go to work at the World Trade Center — played out one of the central dialectics of the tragedy's aftermath: To play or not to play?

Soon after the publication of Dialectics, Firestone excused herself from public life and largely disappeared from the scene.

This consensus confines the space for political dialectics to a discussion on the capacity or incapacity of the ruling government to deliver or not what they all agree, which conveniently diverts attention from the politician to the bureaucrat and in due course will bring to yet another restructuring of the Home Office's immigration sector.

The slow cutting between the perky performance in front of the camera and the fraught, meaningful looks being exchanged between Adam and Betty from their vantage behind the lens encapsulates the divide between fantasy and reality that provides Mulholland Drive with its underlying (and tragic) dialectic.

Through Educar Para Vivir we approach the teaching - learning process from the adjacent dialectic of multidisciplinary issues that Global Citizenship Education enable us to build.

In this way, we approach the teaching - learning process from the adjacent dialectic in the multidisciplinary issues that Global Education enables us to build and diffusion of the knowledge, which causes cognitive conflicts between the different educational actors and, consequently, meaningful and pragmatic learning about the various problems of the globalized world of the XXI century.

These writing - to - learn strategies can include freewriting, focused freewriting, narrative writing, response writing (for example, response logs, starters, or dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff, 1989).

His laws of dialectics are not able to describe the development of nature (including human society which can not seen seperate from nature), nor are they able of making predictions about their future.