In her practice, Lebek has been stiving to create images that sacramentally mediate between the finite and the infinite, the general and the particular, provoking the possibility of theological reflection and inhabiting the extremes of
human experience which theology seeks to articulate.
10 «It is the one element in
human experience which persistently shows an upward trend.
Rather he will remain sensitive to those meaningful qualities of
human experience which are often muffled by the sirens that daily alert the public to the beginning of a new countdown.
Can process metaphysics provide an alternative approach to interpreting
human experience which paves the way toward overcoming this problem?
It is therefore possible and even probable that they experience sensations and memory, that is to say, conscious phenomena, but surely not in the sense of
human experience which is connected with a concept of one's own self.
Old age, too, is an area of
human experience which lies outside the immediate range of the Incarnation.
There is no possible area of
human experience which lies beyond scientific inquiry in this sense.
Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of
human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.
Our clue is that if the atonement means God doing what needs to be done to reconcile the world to himself, then
the human experiences which may reflect this work of God must be those of personal reconciliation.
he deliberately sought
human experiences which (1) in their complexity were «true to life,» (2) that touched directly on problems of religion and mental health, and (3) that encouraged free and independent thinking.
The self is a society, a stream of consciousness, formed by a synthesis of experient occasions, analogous to momentary
human experiences which occur at, roughly, 10 - 20 per second.
His work mines
human experiences which are less than peaceful.
Not exact matches
Combining
human experience with hard data allowed Google to see
which teams fared the best.
In my
experience, it can make a big difference in your targeting, because Facebook evaluates tens or hundreds of characteristics and signals,
which we
humans simply can not do.
It's fascinating to learn about the hugely varied ways in
which people respond to a universal
human experience,» says Morton.
Nevertheless, Cook believes that AR technology «amplifies
human performance instead of isolating
humans,» unlike virtual reality, for
which people must wear big headsets to
experience virtual worlds.
«The dialogue of robos vs.
humans or old vs. new really misses the richness of what's going on,
which is an entire industry re-inventing itself to be more modern, more in line with what investors want to pay for, and to be more in line with the consumer
experiences of today.»
It's a carpe diem mindset,
which I believe is
human nature regardless of whether one has emergency fund or not, especially if someone is in their late 30s and has some life
experience.
Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos,
which is a piece of nonsense no one could
experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against
human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to
human life.
-- has become the single lens through
which to view social
experience; the infinite potential of real
human beings has been surrendered on the altar of protest.
What he produces is an anatomy of suffering the major axis of
which is the irony that «battles over the value of suffering intensify in the contemporary world precisely at the same time people in ever greater numbers discard the notion that suffering is an inevitable part of
human experience.»
God is real and the only way to
experience his presence is by suppressing the
human follies
which this article so blatantly manifest.
This climate of intellectual concern with time and place, for instance,
which dominates discussions of «Southern» literature at a largely superficial level, is inescapable to
human experience of existence itself, whatever one's «South.»
But I do argue that even if we each had privileged and direct access to, and guaranteed inventory of, our own individual
human experience, only a complex dialectical examination could, if anything could, reasonably and nonarbitrarily determine
which features of our own
experience — individual and
human — are essential to
experience as such,
which are essential to
human experience but not to
experience as such, and perhaps
which are essential to one's own
experience but not to
human experience as such.
In some cases this appeal to inner intuition might take the form of the claim that each of us has a «non-sensuous
experience of the self»
which is «both prior to our interpretation of our sense - knowledge and more important as source for the more fundamental questions of the meaning of our
human experience as
human selves» (BRO 75).
To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of
experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing
which is what
experience is or is the essence of
experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what
experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive
experience of one's own
experience, (3) that generalization from features found in
human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to
experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that
experience is essentially temporal.
But the question is one that must be faced by any process philosophy or theology
which sets out to use an analysis of
human experience as a basis for characterizing God.
In other cases this appeal alleges, not that there is any
experience of the present self
which grounds all
experience of the nonself, but that the most immediate objects of present
human experience are the immediately preceding instances of
human experience (cf., e.g., MMCL 444).
If, as Hartshorne does, one uses one's prior understanding of various types of
human experience as the source of generalized descriptions
which together constitute the final concept of
experience, how does one decide whether the generalizations have been radical enough to support application to all — including nonhuman —
experiences or were sufficient only to cover
human experiences?
In the case of microbes
which feed on
humans, a society with limited potential for intensity of
experience may achieve a measure of endurance by destroying societies of occasions
which form the necessary environment for dominant
human occasions of greater potential intensity of
experience.
If there is a God who exists concretely, who endures over the course of
human and cosmic history, and who is affected by and affects what occurs in that history, then that God would consist of an ordered series of unit -
experiences, each exemplifying the necessary abstract features essential to a divine
experience, each
experiencing both the divine and the nondivine
experiences which had preceded it, and each in turn being felt by the divine and nondivine
experiences which succeed it.
I also believe that, in spite of Whitehead's reluctance to concede privileged status to
human occasions of
experience, the introduction of the wide range of conscious anticipation of the future
which humanity represents in comparison to lesser types of existence also introduces justice as a characteristic of the specially
human aim at harmonious beauty.
Whitehead provided us with a model of occasions of
human experience that makes clear that their content is provided by the societies out of
which they come into being.
My
experience of That -
Which - We - Call - God is in the
human collective.
Through our thoughts and our
human experiences, we long ago became aware of the strange properties
which make the universe so like our flesh:
This model invites students to see the New Testament as the product of a profoundly
human process of
experience and interpretation, by
which people of another age and place, galvanized by a radical religious
experience, sought to understand both that
experience and themselves in the light of the symbols made available to them by their culture.
And it is because of this, it is because there exists in you this ineffable synthesis of what our
human thought and
experience would never have dared join together in order to adore them — element and totality, the one and the many, mind and matter, the infinite and the personal; it is because of the indefinable contours
which this complexity gives to your appearance and to your activity, that my heart, enamoured of cosmic reality, gives itself passionately to you.
And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary
human experience to religious
experience and belief as a «breaking point» to
which the
human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in
which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15
It is right to acknowledge that this gap in the
human experience of the Word Incarnate causes difficulty to some people, for it seems on the surface that this most vital area of personal relationship and responsibility is to some extent a room
which Christ has not been through before us.
First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of
human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through
which refreshment and companionship have been given.
Knowledge
which depends on
human experience and traditions related to the Prophet concerning such matters are not the basis for Islamic legislation.
Keen's theology centers on common, natural grace,
which he finds rooted within the
human experience.
Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of
human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of
human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture
which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..
Professor MacKinnon is quite right to draw attention to the fact that here is a very large and most important sphere of
human life
which lay beyond the range of
experience dictated by Jesus» particular calling.
If we are truly to overcome dualism, we must recognize that every natural entity resembles
human experience in some way, for there is nothing of
which we can be more sure than that there are
human experiences in the world.
And the religious response to this suspicion is in each case the same: the formulation, by means of symbols, of an image of such a genuine order of the world
which will account for, even celebrate, the perceived ambiguities, puzzles and paradoxes of
human experience.
But this does not imply and must not suggest that the gospel is not grounded in history and established upon events
which actually occurred in the world of
human experience.
Attention is a fluid
experience, in
which background and foreground can reverse suddenly, as in the case of ambiguous figures such as the twin
human profiles
which «turn into» the outline of a chalice.
The «soft» social sciences,
which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of
human experience.
All
human experiences, even those
which seem most solitary, are actually interpersonal in their essence.