Sentences with phrase «from human experience»

The essential point to observe is that every interpretation has used some pattern or image drawn from human experience and religious devotion.

Yet as objects they could have no existence apart from human experiences.

An analogy from human experience will help to clarify this.

The reason they do exist and the reason they will always exist is because religious beliefs come from human experience, not thought.

In one way or another any model by which we attempt to understand reality or any part of it must arise from human experience.

Hence the meaning of what is said can be illustrated by an ordinary example from human experience.

Their hope is to remove physical ailments from the human experience.

Instead, the film consistently feels a bit lighter thanks to the organic comedy that comes from the human experience.

Even if Whiteheadian philosophy is more of a generalization from human experience than from modern physics, it is inconceivable that it should repudiate the latter.

We are reluctant to take the notion that concrescence is a mere idealized abstraction from human experience too seriously in the analysis of persons, for there are characteristics of a person that must not be ignored and can not be understood in terms of single occasions.

It draws on images and terms from human experience to describe God, who is both like and unlike any human experience.

We believe that Whitehead viewed mathematics as consisting primarily of ideal objects radically abstracted from human experience.

In keeping with Whitehead's premise to start from human experience in the world, I propose as a model for revelation an analogy with the physical phenomenon of resonance.

This applies lessons from human experience at a cosmological scale where, as in the sub-atomic world of quantum physics, many realities are counter-intuitive.

That Whitehead should have borrowed from human experience the term «society» and then employed it systematically to refer to a certain type of «derivative existent» without intending any metaphysical implication in the context of human social affairs, would have been not only careless on his part, but what is worse, fraudulent.

In contrast to Heim I am asserting that concepts drawn from our human experience do illuminate God's way of being in relation to us.

Actually, using terms taken from human experience to talk about God does not make the Bible distinctive, for all religions do this.

In the second part, I will sketch his procedure for drawing his fundamental categories from human experience and applying them to all of reality.

If inherited religious symbols are for many people today almost totally detached from human experience, a return to the experiential basis of religion is important for its renewed vitality in practice, as well as for a sound epistemology in theory.

Theological doctrines, on the other hand, seem to be divorced from human experience.

No evidences from human experiences (Holocaust, hurricanes, slavery) or from other interpretations (evolutionary theory and Marxism) will ever count against the revelation whatever the content of the «ultimate purpose» might be.

When asked how the subjective experience of prairie - vole love might differ from the human experience, Panksepp is speechless.

Knowing innately, that we are all one, provides me with a drive to give, to grow and to gain as much as I possibly can from this human experience while also trying to let go and give way to the universe.

One criticism of our growing reliance on technology is that it detracts from human experience, from immediacy.

And the color here vibrates with an intensity that is more reminiscent of industrial influences than those emanating strictly from the human experience.

By bringing «bad taste» to the walls of galleries and museums, Waters tugs at the curtain of exclusivity that can divide art from human experience.

Our emotions are inseparable from our human experience (even though we're conditioned to leave our emotions outside).

A realist conceives entities as existing in some definite and discriminable way quite apart from human experience.

But in the last pages of his work Heim declares that God's transcendence of the world is entirely different from all meanings of transcendence drawn from human experience.

This suggests that he arrived at his position through a generalization from human experience.

In a summary of Whitehead's position, mathematics is abstracted from human experience to become ideal objects which initially represent general things that are symbolized in classes by variables.

The followers of Hillel answered with an analogy from human experience.

When, in speaking of God, we use language which derives from human experience, it is not univocal.

Altizer, in contrast, has never been interested in what things are in and for themselves apart from human experience.

These ideas are drawn from our human experience, and when given a critical analysis and elaborated, they are philosophical concepts.

All our thinking about God has to be done with pictures, symbols, images, drawn from human experience.

In spite of this reciprocal influence, however, it is clear that Whitehead's fundamental categories are generalizations from human experience (PR 172).

In particular it has been realized that when terms drawn from human experience and personality are applied to God, they must inevitably be metaphorical and symbolic in character.

Wilderness, as an idea and as preserved land, has never existed apart from human experience or from policies that bounded land and people.