Sentences with phrase «idealizations which»

He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood as being a piece with man's own nature and experience.

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But the theological error that underlies this idealization of violence leads them into a new, a sociopolitical Manicheanism which (like the earlier, metaphysical Manicheanism) is also an idealism, a simplifying resource to help people participate in a complicated world where, they know, they had better do what the powers that be recommend and take sides.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

Innocent idealizations of theological education give way before concrete realities of the particular theological school whose ethos is the medium in which one now largely lives and whose polity constrains one's life in powerful but often elusive ways.

The very nature of the quantum theory... forces us to regard the space - time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

In the procession of time, this has made black self - idealization an existential and perpetual split personality in which the culture at large and «the self» battle for supreme identity.

Following this, could we make the leap to consider fiction as, among other things, the means by which people hold on to and perpetuate idealizations?

On the other hand he never felt entirely at home with the ideals of the Barbizon School, the members of which saw Romantic idealization of the countrysite as a form of escapism from urban banality, and he remained more faithful to the French Classical tradition than to the English or Dutch schools.

Posters for Bartana's films adorn the walls of the entrance to the exhibition, signalling that we are moving through a landscape of shifting images, in which documentation, staging, rhetoric, and idealization are used to capture both real and imaginary events.

Things get very difficult, very fast, though, which is why most people stop with the simple semi-heuristic derivation of the DALR in spite of the fact that its idealizations aren't very good and it at best gives you insight and conceptual power to make estimates and develop rules of thumb, not so much provide strong predictive power in atmospheric dynamics.

Nothing in this is directly observable, but many things can be observed in the sense that real measurements give results out of which we can calculate something which appears to be close to the idealization.