I teach clients how to see their world through a lens of
objectivity which will stay with them long after therapy is over.
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A series of text based pieces which are concerned with context and interpretation, Huws» work invokes a deceptive
objectivity which gives way to wider questions of our own cultural context, and the resonances which these impose upon works we view.
Nation is a way of feeling, thinking and living, it is a psychological condition of the mind which emphasizes the consciousness of unity due to spiritual or other feelings.while the state emphasizes political unity and
objectivity which is a condition of law, the state is an enforceable obligatiory condition inseparable from all civilized ways of living
As we have been urging that historical understanding goes beyond literary and textual criticism in the direction of subjectivity, we have neglected
the objectivity which is given our study by the existence of what we may call the phenomenon behind the phenomena.
We have allowed these beliefs to corrode the Church's ability to define her own key beliefs and to offer a rational critique of the counterfeit versions of such things as human nature, autonomy and
objectivity which are part of the culture in which we live.
The transcendence of freedom with regard to
all objectivity which would impose itself from without responds to the claims of the best of Christian existentialism.
Hence it is drawn into the conflicts of human life to such a degree that it can no longer speak with that authority or
objectivity which ought to be expected of those who believe in God.
And this makes freedom as possibility and as deed the only ultimate
objectivity which has to be realized.
Adds Ken Murphy, a deputy for 17 years and the head of WBA's global brands: «He's got
an objectivity which is quite stunning.
However, Professor Duméry does not do this, because his idealism refuses to recognize the objectivity of the divine actions which are the object of the Christian faith,
objectivities which are irreducible to rational requirements and disconcerting for them.
Not exact matches
Often, people see life only through their eyes,
which creates animosity, derails
objectivity and deters loyalty.
«The life of Darwin demonstrates how a turtle may outrun the hares, aided by extreme
objectivity,
which helps the objective person end up like the only player without a blindfold in a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey» Charlie Munger
Some folks I have read say that this is the «
objectivity» of Gospel — that is, it is an event
which happens in a specific time and place
which we can refer to historically and without regard to ourselves.
If he explicitly asks qualifying with «objective», then he will have exposed himself as begging using
objectivity in trying to demonstrate an instance of
objectivity (
which would look circularly foolish).
One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time,
which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the
objectivity with
which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.
Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense of
objectivity: novel human doings in need of guidance, long - enduring systems of belief that provide the schemata of interpretation by
which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.
To be clear about this and about the particular point of view from
which one thinks, can move one toward
objectivity, while never achieving it.
All this,
which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «
objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance
which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.
They will not, however, reflect very much on what is the ultimate ground of this dignity,
which turns the conditional into an absolute principle, namely that the «object»
which makes the principle of
objectivity an absolute principle is man, that is the person.
For example: Any suppression of factors
which are necessary for the clarity of a diagnosis but may be unpleasant for the physician contradicts not only the «object», but also
objectivity as an ethical attitude, hence a «virtue of the physician».
Fortunately this
objectivity seems to situate the medical art within a sphere
which rarely requires decisions of conscience and the solu - tion of ethical questions.
Is the absolute demand that the physician should defend the life of every man as far as at all possible either the artificial and morally unreflected exaggeration of the biological zest for life
which rational man opposes to the true «
objectivity» of nature's action in life and death, or is such absoluteness a genuine ethical demand?
No one finds it easy to adopt such a moral attitude
which is determined by this «medical
objectivity».
And she works for Azusa,
which makes her bias and inability to maintain any scientific
objectivity very apparent, as she must always support the conclusion of a creator first.
If there is no god and no ultimate reality, we have nothing by
which to approach
objectivity but a mish - mash of opinions and perspectives that can never hope to know anything with any certainty.
There is a sense in
which the
objectivity of the scriptural text in its unchanging wording can be appealed to as a corrective against the most highly fanciful flights of redefinition, but it would be part of the naivete against
which the Apostle warns us if we were to take that
objectivity as a guarantee.
Traditional science prizes what it calls «
objectivity,» that perspective from
which (it seems to those who prize it) what one sees — one's «perception» — and what is there — «reality» — coincide.
«18 Or with Donna Haraway's understanding of
objectivity,
which (she argues) is not about transcendent knowing, but about answerability, «not about dis - engagement, but about mutual and usually unequal structuring, about taking risks in a world where «we» are permanently mortal, that is, not in «final» control... «19
«11 By means of a process or an event (it is difficult to define it precisely), one who by all odds could otherwise claim epistemological privilege becomes aware of a complete reversal of the notion of «privilege» finds that an extraordinary kind of truthfulness (
which is not «
objectivity») attaches to the «partial» perspective glimpsed from the vantage of the struggle of the poor, the discriminated - against, the forgotten - about.
A good article
which is written with some
objectivity.
As Rorty has put it more recently, «whatever good the ideas of «
objectivity» and transcendence» have done for our culture can be attained equally well by the idea of a community
which strives after both intersubjective agreement and novelty — a democratic, progressive, pluralist community of the sort of
which Dewey dreamt» (ORT 13).
There is also the perishing of
objectivity, however, for the being thus attained persists in being only to the extent to
which it is positively incorporated into fresh acts of becoming.
Its literal meaning,
which it bears in large parts of his essay, is the removal of the inappropriate mythical garb with the false
objectivity of its cosmic imagery — and this means the abolition of the myth.
In order to follow Kant one must suppress one's existential subjectivity in favour of a rational
objectivity in
which one participates only by virtue of having previously defined the essence of value as one's rational nature.
One of these is the desire to safeguard the student by demanding of the teacher an illusory
objectivity, as if the teacher had no commitment to a certain field of knowledge, to a method of approaching this field, and to a set of attitudes and value assumptions
which are embodied in the questions
which he raises.
Could it be that the decision making, even the scope of life, of atheists is limited by conflating rationality /
objectivity / accuracy with mere mental reason alone,
which is why they ask a wrong question?
It also led to the ascendance of biblical criticism (relativizing, to a certain extent, the Holy Scriptures),
which in turn had negative influences on theology, generating a questioning attitude about the
objectivity of established truth and the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and institutions.
Here, the psychic act of distancing was applied to that quality of experience
which gives rise to man's sense of the normative, and this was conceived as standing over against man, possessing just the
objectivity that belongs to a visual form when it is distanced in aesthetic experience.
One learns the truth of his being,
which only God knows in its ultimate
objectivity, and
which only God loves in its unique particularity.
If Aristotle insisted not only on the
objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this
objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,»
which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.
«Holloway suggests that the concept of environment is a helpful way in
which to preserve the relevance of the subject without losing its realistic
objectivity because a subject is inherently related to its environment whilst at the same time distinct from it... We would propose it as a sort of medium between... (the fairly uncritical) adoption of the post-modern subject and... «scholastic rationalism»... If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God... We can affrm that human nature is intrinsically ordered to God» (page 4).
Spatial diagrammatization in turn permits the establishment of
objectivity, the reconstruction of objects of
which perception has immobile pictures, and the modification of matter.
The operations of understanding in relation to the interpretation of the text was determined by a technology of methodology
which, according to Age of Enlightenment ideology, was substituted in place of prejudice, tradition, and authority and therefore guaranteed the
objectivity of the enterprise and the truth of its results.
In contrast, feminist thinkers tend to view with suspicion anything
which claims
objectivity.
This paradigm shift is transforming or «converting» these activities away from modern ideological distortions
which dichotomized
objectivity and subjectivity, facts and values, science and morality, industry and environment, system and life - world, bureaucracy and autonomy, analysis and narrative, technology and art, truth and freedom (TW, LL, SAFT, SL).
The agent can thereby decompose extensity according to the exigencies of his activity, recompose it, and establish the
objectivity of things
which perception has contracted into immobilities (MM 280, 274, 292, 308).
Kant realised that he had to deal with empirical phenomena, and pointed out that it is the spontaneity of our intellect
which synthesises and confers conceptual
objectivity upon empirical phenomena.
As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (
which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete experience (
which guarantees «
objectivity»)
which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its way.
On the contrary, it makes possible a genuine
objectivity, wherein an interpretation is only able to grasp its object and penetrate it in a relation in
which the interpreter reflects on the object and himself at the same time as moments of an objective structure that likewise encompasses both and makes them possible.