Sentences with phrase «of existential thinking»

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Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

Rubin's decision to share his story about financial losses at Goldman Sachs where he «weathered the storm» using his magical existential thinking stands in contrast to Citigroup's condition with Rubin as the long - tenured Chair of the Executive Committee.

A week of existential panic for Alberta's pampered lap pets would have been very salutary, I think.

For the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs / early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential pain.

There is another kind of thinking in which ideas, ideals, goals, are existential, efficacious, operationally powerful in leading to decisive change in behavior.

A vital underlying theme of his thought was to make a synthesis between the essential and the existential.

Bultman's use of existential categories and Cobb's use of process thought can not be explained in terms of biblical reflection but must be explained in terms of the influence of secular modernity.

The existential posture of Augustine's «self - understanding,» Pascal's «reasons of the heart,» Bergson's «duration,» and William James's «stream of consciousness» have had a marked impression upon my thinking.

and author of An Existential Phenomenology of Law Maurice Merleau - Ponty (Kluwer 1987), plus a number of articles in Continental Thought.

Instead it involves an assertion (in process thought) and an existential realization (in Zen) that one's self is at every moment a unification, directly or indirectly, of the universe.

Heidegger is here thinking deeply into the nature of what is presented in Van Gogh's painting, thinking to experience the deep inner quiddity, the «existential inscape» of a simple pair of shoes.

In our thinking about the most profound existential and theological issues we can draw on insights of the great traditions.

In pointing to the prior reality of I - Thou knowing, Buber is not setting forth a dualism such as is implied by Nicholas Berdyaev's rejection of the world of social objectification in favour of existential subjectivity or Ferdinand Ebner's relegation of mathematical thinking to the province of the pure isolated I («Icheinsamkeit»).

It finds the cerebral - visceral, thought - action, reflection - participation, abstract - concrete, intellectual - existential, good - bad dichotomies of most contemporary men to be unrelievedly tragic.

A fourth implication for our interpretation of Ogden's thought is the existential demand for meaning or reassurance.

It further suggests that man is bound by existential necessities stemming from his spatiotemporal embodiment, and that fulfillment of his freedom and rationality depends upon conforming the processes of thought to the elemental demands of necessity through loyalty to the rule of noncontradiction.

Being an atheist allows me to think for my self and get a true understanding of life that makes sense to me, I do not have to follow a existential bunch of laws that may or may not be what they were truly meant to be.

If we think of a world view in terms of process philosophy, we can develop a way of thinking that takes account of both existential analysis and external reality.

When he shows an interest in world religions, he is not (as is often thought) evading the problem of understanding Christianity, but he is asking a question that makes possible existential understanding as a Christian.

On the other hand, the popularity of Kushner's book, and the solace that it has given many who have undergone profound personal loss (like Kushner himself), demonstrates the existential appeal and usefulness of process thought when properly and simply expressed.

The third possibility will be favored by those who make their own the anterior existential decision, which — as even Bultmann admits — was imported from Greek thought at the beginning of Western science, and on which that science is largely based even today — viz., the existential decision that the individual is no more than a specific instance of a general cosmic law and order which is capable of being expressed in a terminology which is at bottom quite simple and which is detachable from existence.

Sober men now talk about the emergence of existential computers that think, feel, and will.

However I think that my «existential» use of the terms here is not alien to his more general line of thought; and in any event I find the words extremely apt in making the point I am arguing in this paragraph.)

In the future, men may be able to build an existential computer, a conscious machine that can think, feel, and choose in ways that far exceed the limits of man's own powers.

It might be helpful to think of it as analogous to the massive dialectic between the existential and the ontological in Martin Heidegger's «hermeneutical circle».

His insistence that every existential analysis presupposes and includes ontological affirmations seems to me right and sound; his way of using Heideggerian thought is instructive.

If Christianity can give up its lingering commitment to substance thought and learn the existential meaning of the Buddhist doctrine of no - self, it will be creatively transformed.

Generally, when you think of Disney, you think of inspirational stories meant for the whole family, not existential reflections on hopelessness... right?

The modern situation is indeed ironic: While Western man is being driven more and more to existential despair by self - consciousness and increased self - awareness, he nonetheless abhors the thought of the loss of his individuality and consciousness.

Walker Percy — no slouch when it came to Catholic philosophical thought — used to say that whereas O'Connor wrote about cosmic conflicts played out in the existential arenas of the Georgia backwoods, his novels depicted a world of shopping malls and golf courses.

One can, of course, think of many much more tragic examples of existential chance.

But I thought the existential Henri was the Lord of Facebook.

In more recent years, therapeutic theories of Viktor Frankl and James Bugental have added further existential input to my thinking.

Being honest I had completely forgot about some of the losses we had until thinking about it now, which I guess shows that time carries on and you heal, but I'll say the «oh crap» existential crisis now is realizing that the likely window of time where I'm having kids is almost decidedly nailed shut is also proving to be a bit more effecting than I thought it'd be.

We are facing am existential crisis and I just don't want us to be in this position because I think there are millions of people in the country who need a left leaning government, who can give people opportunity and right now we're not doing that.»

We are facing an existential crisis and I just don't want us to be in this position because I think there are millions of people in the country who need a left - leaning government who can give people opportunity and right now we're not doing that.»

He told BBC News: «My party is in peril, we are facing an existential crisis and I just don't want us to be in this position because I think there are millions of people in this country who need a left - leaning government.»

This kind of random fluctuation is thought to have ultimately created our cosmos of stars, planets and existential worriers out of the quantum vacuum — admittedly abetted by some as - yet - unexplained happenstance, such as a period of faster - than - light inflation in the early universe, and matter somehow winning out against its evil twin, antimatter.

One possibility, as the scientists write in the online version of the journal Psychological Science, is that our abstract existential system has no tolerance for the gory details of death; in fact, abstract thoughts of death generate an aversion to bodily fluids, including blood.

A United States federal agency is not necessarily the first place you think of when it comes to answering some of the deepest existential questions for our species.

We should think of it instead as an existential annihilation of the left side of the universe.

I feel like Links I Love ends up becoming this big sapfest of existential questions and thoughts on time and mortality and... just go call your family and tell them you love them today.

I thought that the subplot of Vanya's financial difficulties was never resolved, but I suspect that an apologia for this film would suggest that larger existential issues over-weighed money; it's true, but a commitment to solving all his problems would not have been hard to show.

WORLD OF TOMORROW EPISODE TWO: THE BURDEN OF OTHER PEOPLE»S THOUGHTS - A mind - bending animated spacetime odyssey with existential implications that left me so overwhelmed I couldn't speak.

A deliberate, thought - provoking, existential meditation on the curse of creating of a neverending heaven on Earth.

That famous movement's auteurs disdained Freudian psychology (at least at first) and rarely embedded their protagonists in familial contexts; think of Godard, whose characters spring to life in an existential present, with no hint of having had parents, much less grandparents.

Akiva Goldsman «s directorial debut is thought - provoking in that it raises lots and lots of questions, but they aren't of the deep, meaningful, existential variety.

Another favorite of mine that I think I also liked a bit better than Jessica did in Cannes was J.C Chandor's existential survivalist drama, «All Is Lost» starring Robert Redford.

The former inspires existential thoughts on the nature of sentience; the latter generally inspires boredom.

It calls into question larger thoughts on the impact of our habits as consumers on other people's lives, the sort of existential provocation only the best documentaries can produce.