Sentences with phrase «grasping the reality of»

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.