Sentences with phrase «individual occasions of»

Intrinsic value is the value of individual occasions of experience.

A serial nexus might be described as a «motion picture» film, in which a rapid series of individual occasions of experience project movement.

In our individual occasions of experience we are collectively deciding the very fate of process on this planet, and the size of this moral predicament is truly overwhelming.

The simplest way of understanding Whitehead's systematic need for a principle of order and novelty is to reflect on the individual occasions of experience and how they come into being.

The process as a whole is the succession of these atomic units which are the individual occasions of human experience.

In the language of physics, the simplest «physical feelings» are units of energy transference; or, rather, the physicist's idea that energy is transmitted according to quantum conditions is an abstraction from the concrete facts of the universe, which are individual occasions of experience connected by their «physical feelings.»

Value is located finally in the individual occasion, in this case, most significantly, in the individual occasion of animal experience.

Panexperientialism resists the completely deterministic interpretation of this idea, according to which the temporally prior condition fully determines every present event: When the event in question is an individual occasion of experience, it has a mental pole, which is partly self - determining (In Whitehead's words, the ontological principle «could also be termed the «principle of efficient, and final, causation,»» because it says that «every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason either in the character of some actual entity in the actual world of that concrescence or in the character of the subject which is in process of concrescence» [PR 24].)

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However, May's sincerity was questioned by Labour's Lisa Nandy, who reminded her of three previous occasions when, as Home Secretary, she had been failed to act on information suggesting that incriminating evidence against individual MPs was routinely used by whips to enforce party discipline.

«Capital punishment on this particular occasion was inappropriate and any expressions of sympathy or compassion are extended in my capacity as a private individual and not in any professional or public capacity.»

A Jewish soul and a German soul had connected on an occasion of far more than individual significance.

Such individual importance in the components belongs to the essence of Beauty... [It] requires the real occasions of the advancing world each claiming its due share of attention.

Now this is Leibnizian, and the source of the trouble is that no provision has been made for a dimension of divine freedom directed toward concrete individuals as such, a dimension of freedom which lies within the «weaving» itself of God's feelings for actual occasions.

The action of a presiding occasion constitutes a change in the context which produces a change in the individuals within it.

The relations of an individual to the wider world are, generally speaking, analogous to those of an occasion to other value - experiences.

For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least insofar as they function as compound individuals rather than as simple aggregates of occasions.

This adventure embraces all particular occasions but as an actual fact stands beyond any one of them... [It] includes among its components all individual realities, each with the importance of the personal or social fact to which it belongs.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

The key point here, at least for our purposes in this essay, is that the structured society or field of activity is «alive» because of the interrelated individual agencies of all its constituent occasions.

In effect, then, the «system» or field of activity in question (e.g., a cell) is alive in virtue of a collective agency derivative from the interrelated individual agencies of all its constituent occasions.

Human action is discussed in terms of the relations of human individuals to other human individuals and to subhuman aggregates or societies of occasions.

There are also three paragraphs inserted into chapter 6 on «The Nineteenth Century» (SMW 153 - 55), indicated by the fact that «these individual enduring entities» in the very next sentence refers back to the final sentence just before the inserted material.2 Later new insights about eternal objects and God were added in the two metaphysical chapters, using the new concept of «actual occasion» for the first time.

To be sure, the individual shared in all this, had his vivid experiences and interests as a part of it, was doubtless on occasion independently rebellious and aggressive.

While the occasions are indeed individual «creatures,» their distinct individuality depends upon eternal objects as forms of definiteness.

to the complex of relations an individual actual occasion has with past actual occasions and eternal objects (cf. EMW 116).

But in terms of their individual essences only a selection of eternal objects ingresses into each actual occasion.

Like the Leibnizian monad, the occasion is individuated by its individual essence, its particular perspective; but unlike the Leibnizian monad this essence is not predicated of the occasion as a substantial substratum, but enters into the inner constitution of the occasion as «a vector transmission of emotional feeling» or, in the language of physics, «the transmission of a form of energy» from past occasions via the eternal objects that communicate the emotional form and make possible the subsequent reenactment by the prehending occasion (PR 315 / 479f.).

The whole doctrine of the future is to be understood in terms of the account of the process of self - completion of each individual actual occasion» (AI 247).

This function, which is God's giving of an initial aim to each new occasion, is more like the individual creation of each human soul than the single act by which matter was created.

On any occasion of discrimination against or cruelty towards Jews — whether individual or collective — he was, instinctively, firmly on the Jewish side.

Christian controversies mobilized individual congregations of believers within each city, provoking, on occasion, major riots, and frequent processions and counterprocessions.

The transfigured one's visit to you as an individual will give you that courage of frankness — but what am I speaking of — and if you actively consider the occasion of this talk, then you will stand as an individual before a still more exalted one who, none the less, thinks still more humanly — about the meanness of the occupation, but also infinitely more purely about which occupation is truly honorable.

In his main work, Difference and Repetition (1968), he has shown why the conception of concrete immediacy in and between occasions must not be considered naive in a post-Hegelian sense, but post-Hegelian altogether.15 In order to achieve this aim, Deleuze replaces the categorization of the world into the general and the individual in favor of the distinction of the universal and the singular.16 On the level of abstraction, «mediation» describes the analysis of that which is subjected to a «law.»

In the project of self - creation throughout his life, man must strive to bring these values into aesthetic harmony aiming at intensity of feeling both in its subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself to achieve objective immortality.63 And man realizes that to achieve his individual destiny he must create civilizations which embody truth and beauty.

But Ford's is not ultimately a metaphysics of subjectivity; what is ultimately real are individual actual occasions.

Just as there is a temporal ordering of all of the actual occasions in the universe, so there is a temporal ordering of prehensions in the process of concrescence of each individual actual occasion.

It is thus not necessary for my argument for me to introduce more technical parts of the Whiteheadian scheme such as the difference between a physical entity (an occasion dominated by physical prehensions) and a material entity (a society of physical occasions) and to distinguish correspondingly between the physical properties of individual occasions and the material properties of societies of occasions.

But if we hold, as for example in Process and Reality, that all final individual actualities have the metaphysical character of occasions of experience, then on that hypothesis the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediately present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions, can be validly used to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature.

This emphasis is balanced by an equal emphasis on the dynamic internal event of an actual occasion coming to be a unique individual unifying the world through a synthesis of its feelings.

For Husserl every actuality (Whitehead's actual Occasion) is an expression of an essence (Whitehead's eternal object); experience is composed of «individual instances of... essences» (Ideas 113).

I must stress that it is this property of spatial extendedness claimed for the individual occasions which I am taking as the test case for the ability of the Whiteheadian analysis to furnish an account of properties generally regarded as material.

6 In a conformal feeling, an eternal object already ingressed as characterizing the subjective form of an individual objectification given for a nascent occasion is reingressed as a character of the subjective form of the nascent subject's prehension of that objectification (PR 476, 364, 78).

The mental pole of complex presiding occasions permits great individual initiative to be expressed with unrivalled intensity, originality, and depth, all because their dominant strands are nestled in a structured subservient hierarchy of societies.

10 It seems obvious that the whole person acts, not an individual occasion, especially since an occasion is one ten trillionth of a second in duration.

We hold that the test for actuality is the ability to act, to exert power and influence on the coming to be of individual quantum events and larger societies of occasions.

The criterion of repetition of common characteristics does not imply that subjectivity should be objectified, but together with the claim that conscious occasions are spacy it implies that individual conscious occasions must be objectified so they can be prehended by successor occasions.

The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual individual with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the body).

If so, our endeavor becomes once more interpretive, hopefully illuminating such passages as: «In this way God is completed by the individual, fluent satisfactions of finite fact, and the temporal occasions are completed by their everlasting union with their transformed selves, purged into conformation with the eternal order which is the final absolute «wisdom»» (PR 527; italics added).

By an actual entity with a strong intensity of conceptual feeling, the qualities common to many individual occasions in its immediate environment can be «fused into one dominating impression» which masks the differences between those occasions.

The membership of the complex structured society which is the electron is not, properly speaking, any of the subordinate societies or nexus of the electron, such as the personally ordered society, the enduring object, which constitutes the «life» of the electron, but, rather, the individual actual occasions of which these subordinate entities are composed.