Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to
grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.
They have been involved, and will continue to get involved because they have been
grasping the reality of secular power since the Church was established.
Barr's essay addresses at some length the question of design in biology, but does not clearly affirm that reason can
grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith.
Indeed, true science is impossible unless we first
grasp the reality of natures and essences, the intelligible principles of the natural world.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s and 80s of the 20th century, the Church was - slowly -
grasping the reality of the situation.
Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to
grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.
There is no way to experience God on earth in separation with the question of the power; and there is no other way to
grasp the reality of the power without Minjung experiences of the power.
-LSB-...] true science is impossible unless we first
grasp the reality of natures and essences, the intelligible principles of the natural world.
I knew what was expected in theory, but I couldn't seem to
grasp the reality of it.
However, it was when his African American colleagues told him their personal stories of harassment at the hands of the police that Soler began to
grasp the reality of that experience in what he calls a more visceral way.
I found that it was only when the activists I interviewed began to develop relationships with people of color that they were able to fully
grasp the reality of their racial experiences.
It can be hard for an 18 - year - old high school grad to
grasp the reality of that debt, and many freshman find themselves treating their loans as free money.
grasp the reality of the operations of complex systems nor the idea of finite resources.
By talking to clients knowledgeably, you can earn their respect and help
them grasp the reality of the housing market.
Not exact matches
Canada's federal and provincial governments are racing ahead with drastic changes to housing regulations — without having a good
grasp of current
reality
(As I sit here with my pumpkin spice coffee, I seriously question the man's
grasp of reality.)
Introduction to
grasping reality with both hands: Private university students who try to take out $ 250,000 in student loans when they're barely out
of puberty are patted on the back and given directions to a high - quality local state university.
Fantasizing too much and too positively may cause you to lose
grasp of reality.
But interest and a firm
grasp of realities on the ground are two different things.
There are few things more frustrating than working for a leader that has little
grasp of the facts, or
reality surrounding a decision.
Tight
Grasp on
Reality At the time
of writing, Bitcoin is trading at a price
of $ 7,538.19, marking a rough 6 % decline in the last 24 hours.
Not that I would dream
of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to
grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view
of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense
of «nature» at all, let alone
of any realm
of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.
The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their
grasp on
reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort
of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.
At this moment, for example, I am trying to understand something very abstract indeed — the fading, vanishing
of tasted
reality as we try to
grasp it with the discursive reason.
While she manages (improbably) to keep her two kids alive, Jamie's
grasp of reality grows weaker with each pill and plastic cup
of tequila.
Binx recognizes a kinship here that escapes his understanding
of himself as dislocated in time and place in relation to the Wandering Jew, who is not a literary shibboleth but a
reality eluding his
grasp.
Bergson surrendered to the doubts
of modernity, denying the intellect's ability to
grasp reality.
The history
of thinking has only weakened our
grasp of reality, which involves understanding our intimate relation with Being.
If I have accepted the variety
of usage and am looking to find or create a use to support metaphysical generalization, I can rely on the uniquely intimate and immediate revelation
of my own experience — intuitively
grasped from within — to authorize an insider's judgment about what
reality is like at its heart.
Philosophy is the «science
of common experience» which provides our most fundamental and most certain
grasp on
reality.
Instead, my argument was based on the natural ability
of the human intellect to
grasp the intelligible
realities that populate the natural world, including most clearly and evidently the world
of living substances, living beings.
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility
of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude
of the smallest fact
grasped in its total, concrete
reality.
The task
of theology is to articulate the teaching
of the church only to the extent that the church's teaching
grasps and expresses the
reality of our historical situation.
But we can not yet
grasp fully and with unfailing security the
reality of the divine life to which we are called — in this life we must recognise that we are still marked by the effects
of sins, that we still experience weakness andfrailty.
Jesus was able to «
grasp the logos
of reality as such and to re-present it through symbolic speech and action,» and this in a normative fashion.
The task is not to preserve them unchanged but to develop them in ways that increase their
grasp of reality.
But the human mind can
grasp neither the
reality of individuals nor the mind
of God.
Just as I can't possibly
grasp the true nature
of the
reality of science, I've had to admit that I also can't possibly
grasp the true nature
of the divine, sacred, God, whatever you want to call it.
Many others, who did
grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective
reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories
of the empty tomb as the basis
of my interpretation
of that act
of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding
of the Easter message.
It should be the guide
of life, not merely a technical exercise in the analysis
of logical problems, but a bold attempt to
grasp the structures
of reality within the limits
of human knowledge and frailty.
Man is uniquely the creature
of meaning, and thus is «able to
grasp the logos
of reality as such and to represent it through symbolic speech and action.
All
of the stories from all
of Man's scriptures are fully accounted for, and so revolutionarily superseded, by Pandeism, which demonstrates the logical probability
of all
of these nonuniversal propostions as simply reflecting the miscomprehensions
of the limited human mind in attempting to
grasp an ultimate underlying
reality.
In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition
of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «
reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever
grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding
of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature
of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind
of metaphysical understanding instead
of its blank negation.
His metaphysics provides a structure for understanding both the unity and the variety, the independence and the interrelatedness
of things; it allows us to accept the fleetingness
of an experience
of value and yet to
grasp its eternal significance; its understanding
of process recognizes the
reality of both being and becoming.
Don't pretend that your metaphorical
grasping is even a symbol
of reality.
The other chapters
of Alfred North Whitehead's Religion in the Making (1926) are quite straightforward, but this metaphysical sketch is practically impenetrable, particularly if one has a good
grasp of Process and
Reality (1929).
In other words, 46 % are dumber than a post, 32 % have a shot at someday
grasping reality, and 15 % are fighting a battle
of ignorance that can never be won.
Obviously Whitehead is not asserting that prehension is a
grasping of the object in its physical
reality so that the actual entity would be made up
of objects like so many physical atoms.
It is the
reality of what is potential, in its character
of a real component
of what is actual» (PR 103; italics added), We need now a clearer
grasp of the nature
of this potentiality and if we really understand what Whitehead means in this last sentence, when he refers to the character
of this potentiality as «a real component
of what is actual,» then we will understand the nature
of the extensive continuum much more clearly.
Cobb argues similarly that Buddhism
grasps some aspects
of «ultimate
reality» which Christianity does not explicate as fully.