Sentences with phrase «notion of our presence»

However, formulating such a notion of the presence of the past depends on surmounting a second obstacle — the tendency to deny reality to the past.

When this is done, no argument is needed against the real presence of a past figure, for a past figure by definition is not the present subjectivity, is not contemporary, and is precisely one no longer subject to being presented through the senses.7 The presence of a past figure can be made intelligible and justified only by a quite different notion of presence specifically appropriate to the relation of the past to the present.

The difficulty is that the idea of «somewhere» is bound up with the notions of presence discussed above, so that, by definition, the past is excluded as a locus.

Reinhold Niebuhr, «The Ark and the Temple,» in Beyond Tragedy (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937), 47 - 68, offered a sermon contrasting the notions of presence and legitimacy in the temple and the ark.

Notions of presence and absence are highlighted, evoking the space in between.

Debuting new work at The Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, his show explores the notions of presence and absence and the idea that these two states are dependent on one another whilst at the same time appear conflicting.

Going toward an ever unfolding center, these works reflect the very essence of our existence as fluid and intangible, and are about the notion of presence.

The works circle around this, a notion of our presence in relation to others.

Richard Sides uses a variety of media, including audio, performance, video and installation, to explore notions of presence, temporality, complexity and conflict.

In conversation with these, two additional sculptures by Bove voluminously occupy the sculpture hall and address the notion of presence in correspondence with their architectural surroundings.

Featuring works such as «Black Righteous Space: The South African Edition» 2015 (in the video above Marc Bamuthi Joseph performs at the Kadist Art Foundation in interaction with the work) and taking its title from a 1985 James Baldwin Essay, «this solo exhibition amplifies notions of presence and absence, sound and silence, and visibility and invisibility in the work of HANK WILLIS THOMAS.»

Not exact matches

Anyone who aspires to play competitively in the retail space these days needs to be able to talk the language of omnichannel merchandising — the notion that the various manifestations of a company's online or mobile presence can be pressed into service to create a more engaging, or at least tolerable, in - store experience.

So it had better be good and not some second hand or half baked notion as he also famously wrote, «I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.»

We have a notion — we learn it from Bible stories in our children's illustrated Bibles — that God speaks to people, but what's startling is feeling you're in the presence of a God to whom you need to speak back.

Atheism, most would agree, is a perspective that requires steeling oneself a bit: you must divorce yourself of the notion that you're the pet project of a benevolent, all - powerful being that provides celestial order to your life, and provideth a table for you in the presence of your enemies.

If man today is asking, can God's existence be reconciled with man's deepened experience of himself as free creator of the world, the Whitheadian approach with its notion of God's persuasive personal action in the world, with its discovery of God's presence yet absence in man's creative activity, with its stress on the mutual immanence of God and the world, offers pathways for further development.

Indeed, the presence of [A] as the introduction of the notions of flux and permanence would make [a] quite redundant, although it is very much needed once [A] and [B] were removed.

Instead of attending to Aristotle's own careful preliminary definition of what he means by» (present) in another,» Harts - home allowed this notion of «presence in» to float ambiguously, unexamined, until it became implicitly transformed into a notion of sheer logical inclusion.

In the presence of the three intrinsically distinct, intelligible, and existentially necessary primary notions of temporal passage, modality, and order together with their derivative relations, and in the absence of any successful reductions known to me of one of these to the others, I am inclined to regard a synthetic metaphysics of time which has a place for each of the nine cells of the matrix as the only kind which could be adequate to all the facets of time.

His reasons for speaking of God's causal presence in the world revolved primarily around the notions of order, novelty, values, and truth.

In the hands of a prosperous people, whether ancient Israel or America, this notion has tended to foster a concept of election that claims a corner on God's presence.

The cloud also symbolizes the Jewish notion of the Shekinah, the indwelling presence or immanence of the Divine in creation and with God's chosen people.

Any church leader who questions the validity of a religious presence on college campuses should read this book and reassess that notion.

If power is roughly defined as the ability to make or establish a claim on life, then the range of the presence of power may be broadened to include the notion that power is coextensive with life itself.

Yet modernism can pursue this presence so singularly as to deny any notion of transcendent meaning.

He works toward the resolution of these two problems through an amplification of the Whiteheadian notion that the presence within a presently concrescing actual occasion of a contiguously related occasion in its past does not necessarily conflict with the self - determination of the newly concrescing occasion.

But if you, being orthodox Christians, ask me as a psychologist whether the reference of a phenomenon to a subliminal self does not exclude the notion of the direct presence of the Deity altogether, I have to say frankly that as a psychologist I do not see why it necessarily should.

So we have the strange phenomenon, as Kant assures us, of a mind believing with all its strength in the real presence of a set of things of no one of which it can form any notion whatsoever.

But it is to be doubted that the Judaisms of Jesus» time utterly rejected the notion of the Shekhinah, the presence of God.

Whitehead: The presence in Whitehead's position of important notions about space and time structure which are essentially Newtonian becomes clear as one investigates the meaning of such representative claims as the following:

Commitment, as a word, is not often found in Whitehead, and yet, we must recognize the presence and importance of the notion of commitment.

I draw Merleau - Ponty's notion of ambiguity into comparison with Whitehead's adventure and investigate the presence of both in the successive phases of the concrescence of an actual occasion.

If, like me, you grew up in this environment, you know that the biggest difference between my year of living biblically and A.J. Jacobs» year of living biblically is that the notion of «biblical womanhood» has become a very real presence in the lives of Christian women today and is something we contend with on a regular basis.

The presence of God in the sanctuary establishes a relationship against which death can not prevail; hence it is logical that when notions of a beatific afterlife eventually begin to develop, they should take a liturgical shape.

It is a good guess, but only a guess, that the presence of this notion in both creeds was the main reason why, in the mid-nineties, he turned his back on both of them.

They revealed the presence of refugia — the theory's missing link, of sorts — which strengthened the notion that the now - submerged land mass could have been the Native American founder population's 10,000 - year home.

Greeks, Romans and other later cultures left evidence of their subsequent presence at the site, but it's the Neolithic residents who have captured archaeologists» imaginations: Now, new techniques to analyze the tantalizing clues left by these first settlers may overturn our entire notion of prehistory.

In reality, scientists don't know what weird life is, but its presence has many reexamining notions of what alien life may be and where it might be found.

The notion that a Nanog positive, ICM - like population of high probability self - renewing cells is a developmental ground state is supported by the expansion of this state in the presence of a blockade on the major signalling pathways known to promote ES cell differentiation, the MAP kinase / ERK cascade and GSK3β [42], [50].

I had a vague notion of thinking I should handle the situation with presence, and maybe even compassion.

And with this acceptance and respect, the mind is also freed to operate out of instinct, out of stillness, silence and presence, over thought, anticipation or preconceived notions.

Although there are possibilities in the notion that the philosopher might be attracted to a comely young lad, the movie departs from tradition and allows Hermocrates to see through the deception at once: He knows this visitor is a girl, accuses her of it, and is told she disguised herself as a boy only to gain access to his overwhelmingly attractive presence.

Scafaria, who also wrote the film, floats the notion that sticking to routine in the presence of overwhelming chaos is a way of giving life meaning.

Naomie Harris seems to blossom in the role of young Winnie Mandela, from the little we saw, while Idris Elba, one of our very favorite actors, certainly has an imposing enough physical presence to challenge our notions of the stately older Mandela.

Newcomer Caren Pistorius also delights as a strong female presence in the few scenes she shares, throwing the notion and preconceived stereotypes of a damsel in distress, to the wind.

General George Casey, our top military commander in Iraq, recently told Congress that our large military presence «feeds the notion of occupation» and «extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self - reliant.»

These numbers support the notion that the presence of armed officers positively impacts the school environment.»

All of this makes me question the notion of Amazon challenging the presence of local indie bookstores.

Local bookstores in the Seattle area described wariness over the physical presence of Amazon.com, with the University Book Store in the U District noting «different spending patterns» two months after the opening of Amazon's store; an Amazon spokesperson dismissed the notion that Amazon Books would interfere with independent bookstores and their operations, stating that «offline retail is a big space with room for lots of winners».

Polaris rejected the notion of becoming an ebook provider themselves, and instead began to focus on simple access to ebooks from the library's web presence.