The rejection of dualism and the full inclusion of every aspect of
human reality within nature profoundly affect how nature is understood.
Not exact matches
But it's also true
within the larger context of
human reality that we recognize the gracious nature of such relationships, and can be thankful that we have the ability and freedom to give and receive.
If the totality of
reality is far more complex than we have ever recognized, then it may be that profound
human experience in different times and places has brought to light many of the important patterns that are to be found
within it.
How much the CES actually cares about «the most profound metaphysical questions concerning
human existence and the nature of
reality»
within any recognisably Catholic perspective is, however, to put it as mildly as possible, perhaps in some doubt.
He offers a view of transcendence which is not identical with a particular metaphysic, but which leaves the
human being in free play
within the
reality of his historical existence.
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.
More generally, it stands
within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective
reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a
human construct and values are nothing but
human preferences.
while the Aristotelian worldview conceiving the
reality as existing
within the purview of
human rationality in a synthetic framework of form and essence made the rational epistemology possible.
In enabling a clearer view of
reality, in helping us to recognize our implication in that
reality, and in equipping us to act on behalf of
human dignity
within that
reality, this framework expresses and sustains its essential accountability.
A legitimate philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a
human species but also peoples, not merely a
human soul but also types and characters, not merely a
human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power
within every particular
reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.
The Faith Suggestion In our May 2008 editorial (as in our current editorial) we acknowledged the need to take account,
within philosophy of religion, of modernity's «turn to the subject» whilst maintaining confidence in the
human subject's ability to know
reality (i.e. «realism»).
Human beings as limited creatures were fragile and weak, but placed in God's love; this
reality was seen
within the context of eternal and perfect love.
The new being produced could preserve all the positive constituents of the old essence
within itself as its own properties (as for instance
human nature preserves all the
reality of lower natures).
12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of
reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the
human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the
human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time
within inorganic matter.
However, this «new kind of
reality,» who is Jesus, is an emergent manifestation of God in
human life emanating from
within creation: «a unique manifestation of apossibility always inherently there for
human beings by virtue of their potential nature being created by God... a new mode of
human existence emerged through Jesus» openness to God making him a God informed
human being» (ibid).
For us these are the components of
reality that explain the nature of the world, the phenomenon of life
within it, and even how we
human organisms think through our brains.
Moreover, as Hegel makes clear in the Phenomenology of Spirit, even
within the
human organism it undergoes many stages of growth before it reaches full self - consciousness as a participant in the
reality of Absolute Spirit.
The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social
reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out
within, and ends which extend beyond,
human history.
Thus, redemption is from this point onward a real and present
reality within the
human phenomenon.
Transfer is not involved because the act of prayer takes place solely
within human experiences in which the person is confronted immediately (i.e., without mediation) with the
reality of his own existence and of his world on the deepest levels of awareness (change, dependence, etc.).
This means that the philosophical scheme should render it possible to speak from
within reality, and not only
human reality at that.
Here we have a remarkable feeling for the absolute dimensions of the
human, the total integration of
reality in the
human, the total integration of the
human within the
reality of things.
So while it is all well and good to imagine that each of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along
within ourselves, the transfer of those metaphors back again to the actual
human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the first place only distorts
reality rather than helping to explain it.
At bottom, this book is much closer to existentialist sensibilities than to anything else, and its central argument, stripped to its barest elements, is a defense of the
reality of transcendence and its accessibility
within the
human self.
So when it comes to seeking the ultimate Mind, the first and final cause of everything, we can not expect simply tofit the answer inside our heads and grasp ultimate
Reality with natural
human reasoning, let alone
within purely material categories of understanding.
On the other hand, the work of other younger theologians like Schubert Ogden, in his book Christ without Myth and more recently (and admirably) in The
Reality of God, has shown a way of employing the insights of a soundly based biblical hermeneutic
within the context of a specifically process - thought understanding of the
human situation and the world in which man's existence is set.
The unspeakably tragic error, he insisted, was to think that Christianity is a subcategory of «religion,» when in fact Christ explodes from
within history all
human constructions of
reality, religious or otherwise, thus illumining with the divine the world of which we are part.
In reflecting on our world he warned: «Today as never before it is important that
human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking
within them... Psychology must insist on the
reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually nonexistent.»
Rebirth may be into the order of
human beings once again; or according to the classical form of the doctrine, transmigration into the animal realm; or into a higher order of heavens; and at the highest, the delivered self can escape from the round of rebirth to rest
within the
reality of eternity.
Within this framework, the starting point of theology is the study of the relationship between
human beings and a superhuman
reality we call God.
Within my own experience I know scores of people to whom God has become a
reality through their intelligent acceptance of the Christian Faith, and who know experimentally that the resources of God are available to sustain and invigorate
human spiritual life.
I wondered whether people using computers could someday pull off the same trick (
within virtual
reality, presumably) and how that ability might expand the range of
human expression.
The general manifestation of the laws of the animal level of
Reality within the
human level of
Reality is an example of inverted order; the animal laws must manifest in the
human level only specifically, as much as the animal part of man is involved and they must be also subjected accordingly to the higher laws.
Then there are the rest of us grappling to get our heads around the «
reality» that
within a decade or so, Artificial Intelligence will cause machines to become «smarter» than
human beings.
Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the
human desire to discover and find the irrationality
within reality, the extraordinary
within ordinary and the mythology
within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize
reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.
Change takes place, as if the experience of the victim were reaching out... The sculpture presents the experience as something present - a
reality that resounds
within the silence of each
human being that gazes upon it.»
Recent findings in systems neuroscience seem to imply that the
human brain itself creates — in a kind of controlled hallucination — the «
reality»
within which it thinks it exists.
Such scientific and
reality based sources extend far beyond climate science domain into other scientific domains such as cognitive science and psychology and
human history and my own person life experience tackling «hard problems» to generate positive change
within groups of people and rallying the troops to try to adjust their own pre-conditioning and beliefs of what is possible.
Unfortunately, what I am not underestimating is the extent to which you and I have become accustomed to living without regard to the well - established «limits to growth» of the
human species
within the biophysical
reality of the habitat in which we live so well.
Reality: This statement is basically meaningless because modern
Human civilisation has developed
within and is dependent upon a reasonably stable climate.
You could add that evidence as to the
reality of, and the threat posed by,
human - induced global warming has emerged from a well established official expert advisory process, and in particular,
within that process, from the series of massive Assessment Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).
«A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high - quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States... De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the
realities of ecology and the global resource situation... Redistribution of wealth both
within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every
human being.»
One important thing to mention is that in
reality, there are very few composting toilets that actually compost
human waste
within the unit itself.