Sentences with phrase «hierarchy of»

The existing paganism insisted on a hierarchy of aristocracy being served by slaves.

Doctrine belongs to you BD, you rely on what the hierarchy of the church tells you what to believe / think, the law dictates to people on what they can and can not do.

Also James, you seem to imply that there isn't a hierarchy of any kind.

Gerbner also charged that violence and sexual violence tend to vindicate existing inequities in the social order, especially to force «integration of the many into the prevailing hierarchy of powers.»

Catholic theologians speak of a «hierarchy of truths», a phrase found in Vatican II's Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio, 11).

The hierarchy of ministrants received family titles.

For interesting suggestions regarding the place of the ontological principle in the hierarchy of Whiteheadian metaphysics, see the essays by William I. Garland, «The Ultimacy of Creativity,» and Robert C. Neville, «Whitehead on the One and the Many,» in Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1969 - 70), 361 - 77, 387 - 95.

Thus we need a hierarchy of «sciences» or modes of knowing corresponding to the hierarchy of emergent dimensions in nature.

The feudal kingdom was translated into the hierarchy of marriage and parenthood, where women and children were subject to the domestic king.

The pre-Socratic response to this experience was essentially poetic: not an attempt to devise a hierarchy of categories by which to capture the event in a cage of human concepts but, rather, an attempt to name the event of being in its mystery, with an almost childlike innocence, in a language of purest immediacy.

Actually, what I think I'm doing is trying to make culture, but it occurs to me that there's a kind of hierarchy of needs operating here.

As Polanyi has brilliantly demonstrated, each lower dimension in a hierarchy of emergents, without violation of its own internal structure, leaves itself open to being ordered by a higher set of principles extraneous to itself.

Once we view nature as a hierarchy of emergent dimensions in which physical reality is pervasively «experiential,» what can we make of the question of purpose?

He believed in a hierarchy of saints who held dominion over the divisions of the world of Islam, saints who had their jealousies, conflicts, and divided loyalties and were kept in check by a balance of power.

The hierarchy of worldly privilege is gone, and blessings tumble abundantly over everyone.

When have you ever allowed the FACTS about the billions of dollars paid to victims of the RCC s & x abuse scandal around the WORLD, not some isolted case, ever stopped you from defending the cover up by the hierarchy of the church.

That there should be a precise parallel between Bergson's hierarchy of durations and the indefinite chaining of derivatives and integrals may seem unlikely.

State structures at least partly independent of kinship have been established and a hierarchy of religious specialists has appeared.

Furthermore, it indeed seems that here there is a contradiction in Duméry's thought between the emphasis that he places on the transcendence of freedom in its relation to all determinations, and on the other hand his conception of the whole as a hierarchy of essences.

«In the place of the Hegelian hierarchy of categories of thought, the philosophy of organism finds a hierarchy of categories of feeling» (PR 166/252).

But people are likely to think that big brother is supposed to solve every problem not just the big ones, and are therefore likely to amend their theory by trying to establish a hierarchy of need to determine where big brother should exhaust his effort.

The hierarchy of the RCC for example do not agree with some of the legislation passed into law even though the majority of catholics do not obey the catholic dogma.

The third level in the hierarchy of moral principles is also the last.

Looking downward in the hierarchy of behaviour, a man is only aware of the task in hand, an awareness that fades with each step down into the dimness of routine, the darkness of visceral processes, the various degrees of unawareness of the growing cabbage and the falling stone, and finally dissolves in the indeterminacy of the Janus - faced electron.

Natural being is not random but relational, precisely because there is an intrinsic order of one thing to another in a hierarchy of being.

It revived interest in angels, which now became a hierarchy of named heavenly beings, each with particular tasks to perform.

In that case, since the hierarchy of the catholic church has no life experience in same sèx marriage, or contraception, or abortion, I expect that you will speak up and tell them to but out of what they do not understand.

Nature knows of a hierarchy of weaker and stronger, but only man is an imperialist who wants to subjugate all others to his own purposes.

We are loved not just individually but within and through the hierarchy of relationships that constitute the Church as the family of salvation.

Similarly we are known to be what we are and called to be what we should become in nature and in grace through the hierarchy of relationships that form the fabric of material causality that is the created cosmos.

Matter is no longer an ultimate concept; the hierarchy of macroscopic, molecular, atomic, subatomic levels trails away without hitting rock - bottom until matter dissolves into patterns of energy - concentration, and then perhaps into tensions in space.

The organism in its structural aspects is not an aggregation of elementary parts, and in its functional aspects not a chain of elementary units of behaviour; it is to be regarded as a multi-leveled hierarchy of semi-autonomous [i.e., self - regulating] sub-wholes, branching into sub-wholes of a lower order, and so on.

We thus arrive at a dynamic view of a continual two - way traffic up and down in the hierarchy of behaviour.

The question is whether, at one extreme, the mind of the Universe is all - knowing and omnipotent, or at the other, it is merely that which is superimposed on the point - to - point interactions of the minds of the components as the integrating factor, in much the same relation as that of my mind to the minds of my cells and lower entities in the hierarchy of existence.

In the emergent hierarchy of nature each higher level dwells in and relies upon subsidiaries that constitute the lower level.

How does religious symbolism fit into the emergent hierarchy of nature?

This means neither syncretism nor relativism, since it is possible within any social or personal context to develop criteria for the evaluation of religious phenomena and a consequent hierarchy of choice.1

Our conscious achievements depend for their success on an exceedingly complex hierarchy of assemblies of subassemblies.

Perhaps it is only by loving differently that we are able to love equally; otherwise a hierarchy of value would necessarily emerge.

While the physical scientists have not yet arrived at a fully satisfactory account of the most elementary particles, they have acquired precise knowledge of the hierarchy of entities starting from proton, neutron and electron, through atom and molecule, to objects of our own order of size for which the precision of the laws of mechanics have made possible the extraordinary achievements of technology.

I began this series on Divine Revelation by talking about the hierarchy of revelation that is found in many theology books and seminary class rooms.

Hence even the most general laws are not universal but represent a dominant character of a particular level of a hierarchy of order.

Still higher - level composites constituted of a hierarchy of lower level entities are biological organisms.

Indeed, the missionaries» rejection of things Hindu, and encouragement of Christian spirituality probably further enabled the development of a complex hierarchy of Christian divine beings - in the form of the ubiquitous cult of the saints - parallel to, and to some extent structured by the same principles as, the Hindu divine hierarchy.

Consequently the vision of a hierarchy of goods appears in which everything in the temporal world is contrasted with the superior value of the non-temporal order.

Augustine moves from the unchallengeable Christian doctrine that nothing must stand in the way of love to God to the quite different doctrine that there must be a hierarchy of higher and lower loves.

Unlike many others, he showed no obvious signs of dislike or disgust, and he was very quick to point out that there is not a hierarchy of sins.

There are good reasons (given below) for saying that no line can be drawn between feeling entities and non-feeling entities as we go down the hierarchy of natural entities.

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

It challenges the theological hierarchy of being that places humankind above and separate from the rest of creation.