Sentences with phrase «objective nature of»

Given the highly limited capacities of infants / young children to assess risk, Dr. Van der Kolk recognizes that the lack of physical and / or emotional safety quickly rises to the level of a subjective survival threat (annihilation anxiety), even though the objective nature of the event may not actually be at that level.

But our policy is to maintain the integrity of the website and the objective nature of its content.

I nevertheless think it preferable for judges to say that they are trying, with reference to municipal legal systems, to solve legal problems in a way that will make a positive contribution to international law more generally, rather than to claim that general principles derive their validity from state consent or from the objective nature of law.

So folks have to trust in the calm, cool, objective nature of scientific inquiry.

The most recent statements made by Romm about the analysis in the Climate Shift report offer the opportunity to elaborate on how we can accurately assess the differences between the objective nature of patterns in mainstream media coverage and how this coverage might be subjectively and anecdotally perceived by professional bloggers and media watchdogs.

continue this process by challenging the objective nature of the map.

Writing to Arnold Glimcher, the founder of the Pace Gallery, in a letter reproduced in the catalog for this exhibition, Dubuffet explained his conception for the paintings as «intended to challenge the objective nature of being.

That image is Lady Justice — blindfolded — signifying the objective nature of justice (or, justice as it should be).

In contrast to the often narrowly defined single - objective nature of flood control, they observe that SFM places an emphasis not only on reducing risk (to people, economics and the environment) but also on seeking opportunities to working with natural processes and promoting multiple benefits across a range of criteria (ecological, societal and economic).

As Fr Dylan James brings out later in this issue, the justification of «human rights» today is less and less grounded on the objective nature of Man and more and more on the shifting sands of utilitarianism.

And as spiritual minds we also perceive the universal relationships which define the objective nature of the things within our experience.

The objective nature of this property was expressed by Whitehead in his claim that the space of consentient sets was a fact of nature (PNK 31, CN 53).

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However, there may be potential benefits to incorporation and you should consult with an attorney or other trusted legal advisor to determine if changing the nature of your business entity makes sense for your business objectives.

Generally, founders agree to provide angels with reporting rights proportionate to the nature of their investment, provided that satisfying the obligations do not materially detract from the pursuit of the startup's objectives.

This statement should continue to foster a better understanding, both in Australia and overseas, of the nature of the relationship between the Reserve Bank and the Government, the objectives of monetary policy, the mechanisms for ensuring transparency and accountability in the way policy is conducted, and the independence of the Reserve Bank.

Indeed, this Enlightenment view of nature and human nature is foundational for the industrial west (and now for everything from the global economy to the sexual revolution), in which the over-riding objective is, in the words of C. S. Lewis, «to subdue reality to the wishes of [human beings].»

But his insistence that» [t] he envisaging creativity, the continuum of extension, B's anticipatory feeling of C, the disjunctive plurality of attained actualities, the multiplicity of eternal objects, and the primordial nature of God are all alike involved in the creation of C's dative [i.e., purely receptive] phase» (326) would lead one to believe that some sort of objective medium must he present to facilitate the transmission to the new occasion of so many non-objective factors in its self - constitution (e g creativity, the anticipatory feelings of B and other past occasions, the multiplicity of eternal objects, the divine primordial nature, etc.).

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

To avoid purely «subjectivistic» values, Camus, via the Greeks, posited the limits and beauty of «objective» nature as man's sure guide.

Rather than yielding to relativistic morality, Newman's conception of real assent fortifies objective standards while embracing human nature.

Instead of alienation from a merely objective world, we experience kinship and participation in nature.

But ultimately, you are embracing the latter because you are arguing an objective / absolute morality in god's immutable good nature which is a source of morality beyond god's actual control.

Since the senseless ra - pe of an innocent bystander is objectively morally wrong and objective morality is grounded in the nature of God, then God can not command this for it is acting contrary to His nature and His nature doesn't change.

This is because every actual occasion, when it perishes, is added to the consequent nature of God, where it is everlastingly preserved in an objective state.

In addition to this being a case of special pleading via definitional fiat, the immutable good nature of god argument places the «objective / absolute» standard beyond the control of the god in that god has no choice but to obey this good nature (which also confounds the notion of omnipotence in that god is restricted to only a limited set of possible behaviors).

• the capacity to reach objective and universal truth as well as valid metaphysical knowledge; • the unity of body and soul in man; • the dignity of the human person; • relations between nature and freedom; • the importance of natural law and of the «sources of morality,»... • and the necessary conformity of civil law to moral law.

Bonhoeffer was adamant in his belief that it was impossible to know the objective truth about the real essence of Christ's being - nature (Christ the Center, pp. 30, 88, 100 - 101).

My objective in this book has not been one of demonstrating that there is purpose in nature or of specifying what that purpose is.

The latter are not susceptible to cataloguing as mathematical Platonic forms; hence, despite Whitehead's explicit remarks that the Primordial Nature includes all eternal objects (PR 134; cf. 70), the Primordial Nature is identified with the eternal objects of the objective species.

The public philosophy is the claim that the objective law of right, written into the nature of things, makes on citizens, as contrasted with the claims that the citizens make on the natural and social reality on which they depend.

Mays takes the statement that «The order of nature, prevalent in the cosmic epoch in question, exhibits itself as a morphological scheme involving eternal objects of the objective species» (PR 447f) and renders it: The order of nature is a morphological scheme of mathematical Platonic forms (PW 58/56).

The objective immortality of his consequent nature is considered later (cf. Part V); we are now concerned with his primordial nature» (PR 47).

There was some question whether Whitehead holds that God exercises his objective immortality in two different ways and that the giving of the initial aim is quite distinct from the superjective nature.

While the other main texts on the objective lure stem from an earlier chapter on «The Order of Nature» (II.3 C), closer scrutiny suggests that they belong to a single insertion, made during the transitional period (C +) before Whitehead reconceived concrescence in terms of the prehension of past occasions.8

True, objective science like the observations outlined by Charles Darwin describe aspects of Nature that simply MUST BE.

This is not an ultimate community whose solidarity is an expression of an ahistorical human nature or derived from some nonhuman objective reality, but the kind of democratic community endorsed by thinkers like Dewey.

We conclude, then, that the superjective nature is the objective immortality of God as a whole.

The superjective nature, then, is God exercising his objective immortality by laying down a datum which conditions the form of all subsequent creative acts.

Though it seems by no means necessary to have identical concepts of the nature and function of religion, it is desirable not to be determined by antipathy or sympathy to the degree which would make an objective investigation impossible.

One of the main tasks of the school is competent vocational guidance, which is governed primarily not by the principle of helping the student prepare for and get the position he wants, but by the objective of teaching students to know their own abilities and the nature of their society and persuading and inspiring them to devote their energies to the tasks that most urgently need to be done.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

Only when we understand the specific relationship between abstract entities, on the one hand, and material and mental entities on the other, as elaborated in his theory of objective idealism, does the true meaning of the concluding chapter of The Idea of Nature become clear.

Because, at least in part, they think of personality as objective, they hope to safeguard God's personality, or His personal relations with man, by limiting His nature to the personal alone.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

Despite the potential and actual contribution of capitalistic globalization to improve human life, the safeguarding of human rights or the care of nature are not among its specific objectives.

Even the statement that «nature is objective» and presumably neutral toward human meanings, is the product of an historically rooted perspective, the very one that we called dualistic in the previous chapter.

He writes to Anderson, «you presumably know that for me objective immortality in the consequent nature of God is the essential [emphasis Hartshorne's] immortality, whatever may or may not happen upon or after our death.»

When I - It blocks the return to I - Thou, it poses as reality itself: it asserts that reality is ultimately of the nature of abstract reason or objective category and that it can be understood as something external, clearly defined, and entirely «objective.»

It pays less attention to objectives such as the promotion of the good life of all, production for use, employment, fair trade, or safeguarding nature.

He had long explored the complexities of human nature in history and society, but in this book he turned the problem around and looked at the subject which was involved, turning from the objective self which most analysts look at to the subjective self behind the object.