Sentences with phrase «objective nature of reality»

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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].»

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.

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.

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.»

The author believes that Whitehead's thought provides us with an unusual opportunity to examine our religious beliefs by giving us a new view of reality, and concludes that Whitehead offers not only productive insights into the understanding of the nature of God and man, but also strong arguments for both objective and subjective immortality.

The objective immortality of his consequent nature is considered later (cf. Part V)» (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.

The physical must be regarded as a deficient mode of that being and reality which is immanently present to itself and precisely thereby brings its own ontological nature as an objective datum before itself.

Whatever their differences, defenders of both approaches agree on the necessity of there being a creator and ruler of the universe, the objective (i.e., written - into - things) reality of purpose in nature, and the impossibility of evolutionary mechanisms bearing the sort of explanatory weight they are customarily allowed to bear.

We, including modern indigenous peoples, treat the gods of nature as symbolic rather than as objective realities.

In physics, for example, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or principle of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Heisenberg).

One idea often associated with this tradition is that objective, impersonal knowledge of the ultimate nature of reality is a will - o» - the - wisp.

We need a new grounding of the very concepts of «truth» and «nature» as objective realities in the dynamic and inter-relative cosmos uncovered by modern science.

Whitehead announces that «the objective immortality of [God's] consequent nature» is considered in part V of Process and Reality (p. 47), which appears to have reference to the fourth phase considered at the end of the book (p. 532).

Now «history» and «nature» in this sense would envisage all of reality, if one assumed that objective historical scholarship and scientific research could, in theory at least, reach the whole of reality.

On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning in the realization of a novel subjective experience.

I see an anthropomorphic concept of God... that God / Universe / Nature acts in human ways... as either a conceited sin of pride or a poetic metaphoric description, that is in objective reality, almost impossible to ignore in any Western culture.

Marx begins his account of the relationship of the two philosophers with a paradox: Epicurus held all appearances to be objectively real but at the same time, since he wished to conserve freedom of the will, denied that the world was governed by immutable laws and thus in fact seemed to decry the objective reality of nature.

And last but not least, Suchocki expressly states that God's consequent nature is not prehended, while Whitehead not only claims in the last page of Process and Reality that «the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (PR 351), but also speaks in more exact language of» [t] he objective immortality of his [God's] consequent nature» (PR 32).

We're in a horrendously unsuitable place for gaining objective truths about the nature of reality.

Investigation into «the place I never wanted to leave» (and may have left, by will or necessity) should offer a profound awareness of the elusive nature of objective reality.

Featuring work by 15 artists, the exhibition explores the mutable nature of materials, highlighting the way in which even the most objective realities contain an inherent subjectivity.

Hunt demonstrates the tension of representing water as an objective source in nature and the subjective reality of sculpture as an art form.

Like surveyor's marking posts mapping out the perceptual landscape of objective reality, Judd's art investigates the material nature of the world we live in using only the simplest geometric forms and materials as its tools.

Still others go even wider, making beauty a phenom of nature, which is more or less to say that beauty is an objective reality at least... [more]