Sentences with phrase «givenness by»
Whitehead says here (PR 127, for instance, the» «order» in the actual world is differentiated from mere givenness by introduction of adaption for the attainment of an end.»
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The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson:: This is the first non-fiction book of Marilynne Robinson's that I've read and it's beautiful, eloquent, smart, and I pretty much underlined the entire book.
With the loss of the word the moments in which life is known in its goodness and givenness pass by unnamed.
The givenness of these data means that the vectorial quality is a feeling of causation, of being created by and continuous with the environment which is constitutive of the self.
In order to understand the simultaneous givenness and otherness of purpose, one may have two options: first, sometimes my own purposes conflict and I am at odds with myself, and sometimes this conflict can not be resolved except by giving up one purpose or the other.
one's past self is not merely inferred but is given, &... this givenness of past in present is an essential aspect of what is meant by the endurance of the identical» self....
For God to function as the ground of the givenness of the past, he must either occupy a region coextensive with the regions occupied by his creatures or relate to them nonextensively.
Christian tries to solve this problem by bringing in God as the ground for the givenness of the past (IWM 322 - 30).
It is not that revelation is a meaningless concept, nor that in fact no revelation is ever given; but rather that however we may experience it, in the «givenness» of truth, of the insights of great art, of poetry and of worship, it can never be authenticated as revelation by any criteria external to itself.
Both are inescapably interrelated, temporalized, and constituted by relations and differentiations to the past (givenness) and the future (possibility).
Hartshorne's view is that the givenness of one's own personal experience and that of others is distinguished only by a difference of degree.
Thus, it is difficult to construe Paul's statements as applicable to acts of committed love engaged in by persons for whom same - sex orientation is part of the givenness of their «nature.»
Does biological givenness (the law of nature) dictate the structure of human action, or does the equally God - given human ability to reason (confusingly called «natural law» by Aquinas and Roman Catholic tradition) direct human beings to establish sometimes quite novel goals and discern new ways of achieving them?