The excellent
intellect of human mind has led the great discoveries - but it has never understood the method of acquaintance works.
Not exact matches
In the case
of matter below man this is through relationship to the
Mind of God that frames the whole
of creation, and in the case
of human nature through direct integration with the individual and personal centre
of control and direction (
intellect and will) that we call the «soul».
Richardson is very skillful, however, in the use
of selectionand evocative quotation, ensuring Newman is allowed to speak for himself in clarifying the process by which the
human mind makes it possible to subscribe to an act
of religious faith which is seen to be an act
of the
intellect.
And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the
human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object
of knowledge and
of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies
of the
human intellect and
of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.
For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to
mind), the entire concept
of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270
of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the
intellect has already devised.11
Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270
Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the
human intellect came to be a separable function
of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270
of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course
of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270
of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).
Like Plato, and in contrast to philosophers who exalt pure
intellect, the Bishop
of Hippo understood the eros
of the
mind» the role that love, desire, and «yearning» play in the process
of human knowing.
Take, for instance, St Augustine's use
of a
human being's mental capacities as an analogy
of the processions
of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the
human mind is conceived (or born) in the
intellect and from this breaks forth a movement
of love in the will.
The key is to appreciate the fact that the antinomies are not necessary but
of man's making: «They did not come from the things themselves but from an automatic transfer to speculation
of habits contracted in action, and what a careless attitude
of the
intellect had done, an effort on the part
of the
intellect could undo; this for the
human mind would be a liberation» (CM 71).
«There is real and genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced
of a truth, or
of what he holds to be a truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right
of those who deny this truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to speak their own
mind, not because they are free from truth but because they seek truth in their own way, and because he respects in them
human nature and
human dignity and those very resources and living springs
of the
intellect and
of conscience which make them potentially capable
of attaining the truth he loves, if someday they happen to see it.
But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self - deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything
human failure is a matter
of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage
of a good deal
of the
mind - cure literature, some
of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained
intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.
Rather than asking you diagnostic questions, and relying on your conscious
mind and
intellect for answers, kinesiologists look to your muscles and movement for answers about what's going on in your body (
human kinetics, is the scientific study
of human movement).
In addition to SATCOM, three Capital
Intellects were constructed by combining the
minds of humans with powerful, mechanical bodies.
and the actual meaning
of what could the manipulation
of the
human imagination be, in the regard
of a goal or aim
of manipulating the
human mind and the
human intellect.