* According to the OED, maieutic = pertaining to (intellectual) midwifery; i.e. to the Socratic process of helping a person to bring
into full consciousness conceptions previously latent in his mind (from the Greek maieuesthai, to act as midwife).
By acknowledging these thoughts and bringing
them into your full consciousness you can create congruence between what you're saying to yourself and what you believe.
Not exact matches
When we are dealing in general with the gradual development of the noosphere
into planetary
consciousness we must of course do
full justice to the great, the essential part played by the other sections of the human race in bringing about the eventual plenitude of the earth.
We can not of course go more closely here
into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with
full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.
Once God has died in Christ to his transcendent epiphany, that epiphany must inevitably recede
into an abstract and alien form, eventually becoming the
full embodiment of every alien other, and thence appearing to
consciousness as the ultimate source of all repression.
It's only several months
into the term that fetuses actually morph
into full - fledge humans with feelings and
consciousness.
Barbara Rose states: «The essential act for Tàpies is not depiction or representation but the transformation of matter
into spirit... This metaphysical transformation characterizes the duality and tension in Tàpies» art... The purpose of art, then, is to alter and heighten
consciousness, bringing us
into contact in the most powerful way with reality, not as it is pictured but as it literally exists in time and space... In this series of recent paintings, one sees Tàpies in
full possession of his powers.»