Sentences with phrase «historical position in the world»

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

Not exact matches

In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.&raquIn a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.&raquin the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.»

Second, Banerjea posits that «the meaning of Prajapati... coincides with the meaning of the historical reality Jesus Christ; and that no other person than Jesus of Nazareth has ever appeared in the world claiming the character and position of the self - sacrificing Prajapati, half mortal and half immortal» (Ibid.).

As a young female professional in the data world, I'm incredibly sensitive to gender gaps, especially in pay and leadership positions (pause for a round of applause for our new Superintendent Kyla Johnson - Trammell for smashing that historical glass ceiling!).