The ultimate object of man wherein lies his greatest happiness in future life is to gain
knowledge of the realities of things so far as his nature allows, and do what is incumbent upon him.
Hence, we can not expect of philosophy an exhaustive
knowledge of reality of even absolute certitude: «In the realm of experience, on the contrary, with incomplete solutions and provisional conclusions it will achieve an increasing probability which can ultimately become the equivalent of certitude» (CM 45f).
Neither condemnation nor contempt of a woman and marriage is thereby expressed — although such features are found — but it is the renunciation in favor of the noble task resulting from
the knowledge of the reality of things.
Not exact matches
Storytelling is a powerful learning technique for these and other situations because, as Gamestorming's authors explain, «The
reality is that the bulk
of employee
knowledge is gained through storytelling.
By providing quick access to a countless number
of investment opportunities, the company makes it easy for everyone - including someone with no previous investment
knowledge or portfolio to build on - to make their entrepreneurial dreams a
reality.
Virtual
reality and augmented
reality are slightly different disciplines, which makes Bowman's
knowledge of both technologies critical to any company attempting to compete in the virtual marketplace.
«It's amazing how books are constantly being flagged as obsolete in the post iPad / Kindle world, but in
reality people have real emotion and attachment to tangible physical books,» McLeod told me, describing those emotions as «both the memories
of where [the owners] were when they experienced them, as well as the
knowledge contained within.»
All
of that
knowledge, technology, and experience will allow us create a best - in - class browser for mixed
reality headsets.
Analyzing a case in the classroom removed from the
realities of chaos and conflicting customer responses adds little to an entrepreneur's
knowledge.
Unfortunately, this
knowledge is often denigrated by «blood - and - guts» exporters who wrongly claim that civil servants know little about the day - to - day
realities of exporting.
Contrary opinion has a history
of effectiveness at extremes where a particular event has run its course so fully both in
reality and in market prices that it is taken as common
knowledge.
in
reality, in some ways I do agree with your post and that's the reason I also included that religionists can be equally arrogant in their
knowledge of spiritual things just as scientists.
Everybody got good independent
knowledge of what is going on in our universe in
reality.
The
reality is that as our
knowledge has grown it has become ever more evident that the bible is a collection
of ancient myths and legends.
What, after all, warrants our belief in the power
of rational consciousness to give us a true
knowledge of reality?
The most common delusion that will make you reject this is that you actually can achieve a meaningful
knowledge of reality.
now, separate, statistical data is affirming the historical
reality: they had to have direct
knowledge of the region at the time
of Jesus.
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this
reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a
knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.
These have been formulated in different ways, but a typical list would cite life (including health, safety, and procreation);
knowledge (including appreciation
of beauty); holiness or religion (in the sense
of harmony with ultimate
reality); self - integration, justice, friendship (including marriage); and the kind
of exercise
of skill in work or play that enriches human life.
The mythical friend Gabriel was the mythical friend
of Jesus the Messaih accompanying him all time as per the Quran readings... this mythical friend is the right hand for God and was sent to nearly all messengers
of God to deliver teachings from God to his messengers and Gabriel is the only Angel that has minimum number
of wings reaching the sixth heaven as a limit... as per my readings and narrow
knowledge...
Reality you are playin with fire here show respect even if you are agnostic about all as you are only human and do not know the unknown
of see the unseen or touch the untouched or feel the unfelt because even when you are alone you are not alone.
So much harm from a single seed
of destruction calling people to value ignorance over
knowledge, logic over irrationality, and delusion over
reality.
This
reality of technocracy as experienced by the peoples in the third world is known as concrete historical
knowledge in the stories
of the victimized people.
The power
of knowledge, information and coqunication are increasingly the most formidable power
reality that dominates the people in the global scale.
The only answer which is plausible can be given by the biological theory
of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out
of the whole physical
reality only that zone which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.
But let us never forget, as some modern scientists have forgotten, that the study
of reality via reductive methods leads to incomplete
knowledge.
But now I admit to be speaking in the language
of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way
of understanding
reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival
of the new
knowledge of Galileo and Newton.
And, clearly, it is philosophical
knowledge of reality that is most in need
of defense in our time.
By contrast, the views outlined above seem to ignore centuries
of well argued, admittedly sometimes contradictory, explanations
of being and
reality from philosophy, particularly epistemology (theory
of knowledge) and metaphysics (theory
of being).
Every advance in our
knowledge of reality, every new truth discovered, impinges upon how we understand the truth given to us in Revelation.
to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception
of reality, because our
knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times
of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays
knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.
In Process and
Reality, Whitehead describes a
knowledge of Greek in terms
of an historic route
of occasions which inherit from each other to a marked degree: «That set
of occasions, dating from his first acquirement
of the Greek language and including all those occasions up to his loss
of any adequate
knowledge of that language, constitutes a society in reference to
knowledge of the Greek language» (PR 137).
Our perception
of the structure
of reality changes as we become aware
of new areas
of human experience and
knowledge.
It assumes that human life is fundamentally practical; hence,
knowledge is not most basically the correspondence
of some understanding
of reality with «
reality - as - it - is,» but it is a continual process
of analysis, explanation, conversation, and application with both theoretical and practical aspects.
In the first way, absence from the future could mean simply reason's lack
of knowledge — an either complete or incomplete lack —
of a
reality that is already finished or fully evolved.
With the birth
of objective
knowledge,
reality appeared as an objective order, and God was banished from the «real» world.
What is false in the self - image, that is, what does not accord with our
knowledge or sense
of reality, what is intolerably beyond our power to sustain, what has been created in order to protect us from hurts, and what reflects our genuine self — all this can in a measure be brought into the light
of a new judgment.
«What matters is something deeper: the feel
of the world around us, the sense
of reality, the taste that spontaneously discriminates between
knowledge and fantasy.
Say: The Spirit is by command
of my Lord, and
of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little» (Surah XVII, 85), indicates that the identification
of the soul is His own concern and that the human mind is too limited to understand such a supernatural
reality.
To judge the two
realities by a supposed
knowledge of what is «really» real, gained by some means alien to both, is to abandon the perspective
of the history
of religions.
Since God is internally related to the world, divine
knowledge is an immediate, sympathetic awareness (see, e.g., Hartshorne, «Philosophical and Religious Uses
of «God» «in Process Theology: Basic Writings, edited by Ewert Cousins, page 109; also see Schubert Ogden, «The
Reality of God,» p. 123
of the same volume and Jantzen 1984, 81 ff.).
To «know all that exists» is, in one sense, to have perfect
knowledge, it is literal omniscience (provided possibilities are also known as such, as a special class
of existences or, at least,
of realities).
In the area
of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning
of life, beyond the alienated notions
of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic
of finite and infinite, and this remains a living
reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order
of answer but in the order
of question.
If one means, for instance, an epistemological privilege
of the oppressed, in the sense that the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed have some intuitive
knowledge of God, righteousness and social
reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that
knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel diverge.
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.
I do not mean that they had a
knowledge of scientific evolution but that they looked upon
reality as a process
of growth.
But the theory
of divine relativity assumes a finer and deeper
knowledge of reality than that evidenced by human knowing with its dependence upon sense experience and abstract universals.
Derado, With a loop
reality wouldn't we expect to see alot
of advanced people with great
knowledge?
Indeed, I would suggest that... major factors contributing to the current decline have been a certain lack
of knowledge of both theology and history, as well as a certain lack
of maturity in responding to newly discovered postconciliar
realities.»
The answer is to point out that both activity and passivity, like God's love,
knowledge, and
reality, are attributes
of God and so to be understood in terms
of the formal dipolar distinction.
This, however, is what in many respects Hartshorne is doing when he applies his understanding to our
knowledge of reality.