Not exact matches
In that «
realist» tradition the intelligible actuality
of a thing is not a projection
from the mind
of the observer — as in Kant and the subjective schools that come
from him — but is an intrinsic aspect
of the thing itself.
Unlike a traditional
realist, Whitehead can not conceive
of the world apart
from prehending subjects and their subjective experiences.
In the mandarin world
of foreign policy experts, a good many «
realists» viewed, and still view, this initiative as an unwelcome intrusion that distracts attention
from the cold calculations
of power that should guide our thinking about world affairs.
Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware
of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work
of «idealism,» «but
from a
realist point
of view.»
Instead
of subordinating Christian claims to
realist (or other) canons
of truth that stand outside Christianity, Marshall proposes, Christian thinkers should argue
from an explicitly Christian standpoint.
Thus, for example, in spite
of the fact that we can presuppose in every instance a certain «will to clarification,» a «
realist» on such an occasion outlines a different picture
from that
of the «idealist,» and so on.
Thus, when Perry and several prominent
realist colleagues issued their collective manifesto, The New Realism in 1912, Russell wrote that the Americans had combined a style
of logic «that I heartily agree with» with a metaphysic, derived
from William James, denying the old mind / matter dualism.
He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American
realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion
of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance
of the older «commonsense» notion
of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived
from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2
He perceived the
realists in America more generally as sliding down the «slippery slope»
of metaphysical obfuscation
from which all had only so recently emerged.
The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements
from nation states to comply with international law; 2)
realists, who seek to ensure a balance
of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use
of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.
Johnson styles himself a «theistic
realist» — while distancing his positions
from that
of the «fundamentalists» and «creation scientists,» he accepts the name «creationist»»:
After all, Whitehead apparently does not radically diverge
from the Einsteinian point
of view, but rather emphasizes one assumption
of Einstein's and claims that it logically supersedes his other, resulting in a shift away
from Einstein's operationist definition
of simultaneity to Whitehead's «empirical -
realist» definition.
Quite apart
from this problematic classification
of Anglo - American
realists and American pragmatists (cf. GMPT 136 - 80) such conventional associations tend to obscure, rather than elucidate the influence
of evolutionist theories on Whitehead's philosophical development, and do nothing to clarify the actual influence on, or to evaluate the compatibility
of evolutionary cosmologies with, Whitehead's philosophy.
Hartshorne takes
from Aquinas his
realist view
of perception.
But the logic behind the progressive demand for admitting transgendered persons into restrooms
of their choosing also betrays a
realist commitment: there is a mind - dependent reality about gender, and it is not deducible
from physiological appearances.
The
realist grounding
of perceptions comes
from their being derived causally
from experiences
of processes going on in external nature.
When the defense
of religious freedom meant confronting Islamist and jihadist terrorists, in the face
of the same objections
from the same unrealistic
realists, Frank Wolf was there.
Entities in the world are assumed to be two stages removed
from the familiar systems on which the model is based: (1) gas molecules are not the «tiny elastic spheres»
of the model (if we are not naive
realists), and (2) «tiny elastic spheres» are not billiard balls (if we have kept negative analogy in mind).
The entire project
of the Enlightenment was to maintain
realist faith while declaring disallegiance
from the God who was that faith's object.
But this is a far cry indeed
from the public controversies that our current epidemic
of so - called
realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support
of one kind or another to private religious education.
I love
realists like you and get so irritated by those fans who suffer
from Wengeritis disease; failure to see the clear truth even when it is right in front
of them.
we were awful for 60 mins and fortunate to be just one down and the good... we took a point
from being decent for 30 mins all but securing third place... As for realism it's simple... There is no way a real arsenal fan could watch that performance and be confident that we will be challenging for title in 12 months time... So if that is what we want the
realist fan asks what needs to change... and if we rule out the first best option... which as a
realist I do... to get rid
of wenger... then in our second best world it's a matter
of where we need to strengthen... Sadly at the point realism breaks down because in the absence
of first best option we are in the fantasy world
of the cheese eating surrender monkey where 11 yr olds are zee future
of zee club
Maybe a few breakfast bingers, before scarfing down the cheesecake with some milk drunk directly
from the carton, might seek intellectual underpinning for their pig - out — Hey, I'm getting protein
from the cheese, fiber
from the crust and fruit
from the topping — but
realists accept that an occasional wanton act
of gluttony needs no further explanation than Just because...
In researching LATs / apartners for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics,
Realists and Rebels — which offers a living apart together model as one
of many marital options couples can chose
from to individualize their marriage — I discovered that LATs / apartners feel more committed and less trapped than live - in couples.
Maybe; their paper cites studies that indicate «unrealistic expectations» and «inadequate preparation» for marriage are keeping many couples
from having an «our» marriage (and these are just the sorts
of things Susan Pease Gadoua and I are discussing in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics,
Realists and Rebels.
In researching LATs / apartners for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics,
Realists and Rebels — which offers a living apart together model as one
of many marital options couples can chose
from to individualize their marriage — Vicki discovered that LATs / apartners feel more committed and less trapped than live - in couples.
But, as Susan Pease Gadoua and I detail in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics,
Realists and Rebels, couples can choose a LAT arrangement
from the start
of their marriage.
Since I am (as you now know
from last week's Civil Eats post) more
of a
realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways voluntarily on a widespread basis.
Adapted excerpt
from The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics,
Realists and Rebels by Susan Pease Gadoua and Vicki Larson, with permission
from Seal Press, a member
of the Perseus Books Group.
While realism should do more to engage with the impact
of «soft power» and historical patterns on calculations
of interest, power, and threat, there is no reason why these factors are necessarily excluded
from realist thinking.
In his magical -
realist masterpiece One Hundred Years
of Solitude, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez takes the reader to the mythical jungle village
of Macondo, where, in one oft - recounted scene, residents suffer
from a disease that causes them to lose all memory.
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As the romantic and the
realist set off across the wilderness in search
of their respective rewards, writer / director Maclean ensures that they run into all manner
of characters, hailing
from all manner
of lands, ranging
from a fur coat - clad Payne (Mendelsohn) to a trio
of Congolese immigrants to a German anthropologist who wryly observes that «in a short time, this will be a long time ago.»
The story is told
from the point
of view
of daughter Peggy Ann Garner, a clear - eyed
realist who nonetheless would like to believe in her pie - in - the - sky father, whom she loves,
They sought inspiration in the era's art, specifically the work
of the photo -
realists, who painted photographs in a style that is both hyperreal and at one remove
from reality — evoked by the variety
of reflecting surfaces seen in the film — and the op artists, who deployed contrasting visual elements to create vibrating surface tensions on a single plane.
You're too young to have seen movies
from the»70s the first time around, but I was really reminded
of the gritty, social -
realist sci - fi parables we used to see back then.
Most
of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance
of a
realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding
of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation
of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation
of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat
of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement
of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence
of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera
from the background
of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him
from the camera).
That's something that happen to her, because we were looking for the
realist, dirtiest detail
from the overnight
of being a new parent that can be exposed on screen.
Some other notable films
from female directors include the Telluride breakout «Lady Bird» by Greta Gerwig, a semi-autobiographical coming -
of - age movie about women and female familial relationships; Brie Larson's magical
realist directorial debut «Unicorn Store»; and «Battle
of the Sexes,» a chronicling
of the run - up to the landmark 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, directed by Valerie Faris and her husband, Jonathan Dayton.
In his output
from early in that decade, with its elements
of fatalism and compositional sophistication, one can see the seeds
of the poetic
realist tendency in French cinema, a style whose popularization Duvivier would have a fundamental hand in a few years later (along with the likes
of Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Jean Renoir, all
of whose work has come to overshadow Duvivier's).
In a tradition ranging
from the kitchen - sink
realist films
of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works
of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense
of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack
of upward mobility.
McArdle strays
from the
realist norms
of many coming -
of - age films with her bold aesthetics, which are complemented by other creative takes on teenage life: Léa Mysius» astonishing debut feature, Ava, is just as visually bold, immersing you in its protagonist's subjectivity.
A phenomenal slice -
of - life family drama directed by the late Edward Yang
from Taiwan that exemplifies some
of the great
realist cinema that was being made in Asian countries during this time (see Ang Lee).
Here, Jodorowsky's magical
realist, fable - like cinematic language finally enters the real world; if cult films like «El Topo,» «The Holy Mountain,» and «Santa Sangre» interwove elaborately absurdist imagery with narratives borrowed
from genre and myth, «The Dance
of Reality» feels like Jodorowsky returning to the scene
of the crime — to the the childhood visions and heartbreaks that started it all.
Paul Fejos» Lonesome is the surprise
of the year
from the company, a late - silent / early - sound rarity bubbling with poetic
realist energy.
The Story
of a Three - Day Pass departs
from generic convention by focusing on a Black hero and embracing New Wave - inspired
realist techniques alongside fantasy sequences.
2017 saw a bumper crop
of movies,
from the magical -
realist interspecies romance to the no - mercy sensory - assault war picture, and a surprising number
of them can be watched
from the comfort
of your own home right now.
Tracing Haneke's career
from his debut trilogy produced in Vienna to Funny Games U. S. (2007), discussed in the coda, this monograph provides a very convincing argument
of Haneke's cinema as both a balance between and an alternative to classical
realist cinema and counter-cinema.
I also enjoyed God Help the Girl, a kind
of social - hyper -
realist Scottish musical
from Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, inevitably described in some quarters as The Umbrellas
of Glasgow.
A
realist aesthetic has always been basic to Brooks, but we tend to forget that what we call realism — in the work
of everyone
from Emile Zola to David Denby — almost invariably derives
from a class position.