Sentences with phrase «hierarchical vision»

What could possibly be attractive about this steeply hierarchical vision of political citizenship?

It involves a relational and hierarchical vision of matter as that which, in its very being, is known and organised, controlled and directed, by spiritual mind.

Although I am not entirely happy with Smith's recent books on science and religion, especially since they fail adequately to appropriate evolutionary thought, I think there is value in his own hierarchical vision and his critique of the epistemology of control.8

I have very little hope of converting thinkers like Mayr to the hierarchical vision.

This hierarchical vision relegated the nonhuman to the bottom of the organizational pyramid: it was the «stuff» which humans employed in their pursuit of the common, human good.

I can not deny, therefore, that my own attraction to a hierarchical vision of reality is a consequence of my already having been taken into a specific circle of historically and culturally conditioned symbols.

If we are comfortable with a hierarchical vision of reality we will have little difficulty in accepting the inevitable ambiguity of the symbols.

However, we must also acknowledge that any attraction we may have to the hierarchical vision has itself been aroused in us by symbols themselves.

We can now make a few observations regarding the hierarchical vision of Dionysius.

Not exact matches

And a discussion of biological reductionism may be our best access to formulating a defense of the hierarchical view as well as some version of the teleological vision of the cosmos.

This liberalism is defined by its vision of society as a contract among naturally free and equal persons, and its antitypes are communitarian visions of the left (socialist, egalitarian community) and of the right (traditional, hierarchical, moralistic community).

It proceeds from a unified vision of the hierarchical harmony of the goods for which we strive and, as a result, it is capable of making a penetrating analysis of real - world situations and of inspiring holistic, effective responses to them.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.