Sentences with phrase «of acting upon something»

Indeed, there is no activity apart from the subject, and here activity is not that of acting upon something but rather the inherent activity of internal synthesis or self - creation.

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Aquinas does make a number of statements that sound like the view Cardinal Kasper wants to defend: He says in I. 21.4 that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.»

In question 21 of the Summa, Thomas writes that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.

That is, they are under both ethical and epistemic obligations to argue for the truth of what they take themselves to believe when they are faced with religious others who appear to believe something different and to act differently based upon such difference in belief.

If something new happens — that means, that forgiveness is not a necessary result determined by the nature of the man who forgives, something upon which the offender can count (if he did, he would obviously be unworthy of it); but it is an act arising wholly from the free good will of a person, wholly a gift.

But, «an intellect bent upon the act to be performed and the reaction to follow, feeling its object so as to get its mobile impression at every instant, is an intellect that touches something of the absolute» (CE xxi).

The tragic hero accomplishes his act at a definite instant in time, but in the course of time he does something not less significant, he visits the man whose soul is beset with sorrow, whose breast for stifled sobs can not draw breath, whose thoughts pregnant with tears weigh heavily upon him, to him he makes his appearance, dissolves the sorcery of sorrow, loosens his corslet, coaxes forth his tears by the fact that in his sufferings the sufferer forgets his own.

The simple act of seeing something depends upon what the German physicist, doctor and philosopher Hermann von Helmholtz called «unconscious inferences».

The timing, method, and means of a trans person's decision to communicate the full nature of their sexual identity to a potential partner is something only that individual can consider and act upon.

When we receive a notification that something has been introduced, we assess its potential impact using criteria including the scope of the proposal, its broader implications for the continued availability of companion animals, the likelihood that it will be acted upon and the political landscape.

We really haven't heard much at all about the Kinect - powered title, but now we know something new from this gameplay video: it features some voice acting from Tim Schafer, the head of Double Fine Productions (Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, and Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster)!

Therefore, Link is set loose into the wilderness of this kingdom armed with the branch of a tree, and with the knowledge that there is something terribly wrong and — for some reason — he is the one that needs to act upon it.

The beauty of strategic games like these is that failure is not really an irritating process but a learning one, in the sense that you always discover something which made you fail the attempt and thus act upon it to change the course next time around.

«One of the main reasons we decided to act upon this extraordinary opportunity is because printmaking is really the foundation of Kiki's work and is something that informs her entire oeuvre,» High modern and contemporary art curator Michael Rooks added in an email to the AJC.

Bašić's figures appear to be acted upon by forces of enormous violence, and seem to visualize the fragility of the body as an organic carrier for something else.

Cascading all around -LRB-: something arranged or occurring in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding)

Although dress codes of this kind are already illegal, the reality is that the lack of clarity and any threat of punishment leave many companies feeling free to circumvent the rules, something which the Government, following a recent Petitions Committee and Women and Equalities Committee report, has pledged to act upon.

While what follows might not make much sense, according to recent research commissioned by FindLaw, it's something that lawyers need to be aware of, and act upon: When considering an attorney, most consumers hold interpersonal and emotional factors just as highly as degrees and experience.

This bolstered the employee's argument that, not only had the doctor ordered her to do something he'd never asked a non-pregnant employee to do, but also he'd ordered her to do something outside the scope of her employment, which raised a viable inference that the doctor acted based upon a discriminatory motive.

When these feelings are acted upon by doing something «bad», a self - fulfilling prophesy ensues — making real what had been a feeling sense — catapulting people back into the inner world of the past.

Because that places you in a position to act in the best interest of the beneficiary not in your best interest, they can be terminated at the drop of a hat or upon death, something we all face but just don't know when.