Artists such as Zhang Huan, Yasser Aggour and Lyle Ashton Harris explore and manipulate the age - old concept of the «family portrait,» while Janine Antoni and Annee Olofsson reflect on the importance
of individual identity in regards to parent - child relationships.
The fact that Peirce conceived
of individual identity in this way is not, I would urge, simply the result of an uncritical love for continuity.
Not exact matches
There are plenty
of networks and sensors
in the world, says Martin, but while they detect the presence
of humans, they don't recognize
individual identities.
As more and more people opt to make their diverse sexual and gender
identities public, and as choice - craving
individuals seek clothing that perfectly reflects their personal style, retail and fashion insiders expect sales
of androgynous duds to climb
in the years ahead.
Articles are already appearing about fake tax returns being filed,
identities being stolen with hacked social security numbers, and falsified mortgages filed
in the name
of individuals whose information and
identities have been stolen.
I was very interested
in this whole notion
of each
of us as
individual professionals who are on the Internet and how that changes the way we do business, our careers, our brand
identity.
If this information were to get into the wrong hands, some
of it could be used
in identity theft scams against both businesses and
individuals.
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They are communitarians, that is, «if philosophical liberals are those who believe that all our problems can be solved by autonomous
individuals, a market economy, and a procedural state, whereas communitarians believe that more substantive ethical
identities and a more active participation
in a democratic polity are necessary for the functioning
of any decent society.»
I think we are too quick to depersonalize this and miss that we are talking about complex
individuals who are trying to figure out, like all
of us, what it means to be made
in the image and likeness
of God and yet have a whole intact personal
identity which can include same - sex attraction.
The modern
individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9
In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths
of our tradition no longer confer
identity upon us today.
If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering
in the human heart
of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed
of but now at last leaving the realm
of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize
in one another the elements
of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware
of the fact that without loss
of their
individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.
4 Much the same can be said
of the Western novel, not because the majority
of the heroes
of novels are «found» (neither are they
in the New Testament parables), but because the lost - found struggle, the pattern
of the
individual in search
of his or her real
identity is the pattern
in so many
of our novels.
Mr Deighan's last paragraph suggests a way out
of this which seems to give significantly different
identities and functions to the form
in the
individual thing and the form
in the mind.
Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals
of emanation that descend
in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret
identity between the human mind and the One, the labor
of philosophy is one
of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature
of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless
identity, but a kind
of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals
of one's
individual existence; truth is oblivion
of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.
(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written
of major changes
in the
identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact
of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss
of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence
of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists
in identifying the actual passion
of sex as the most immediate epiphany
of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role
of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision
of the total kenotic movement
of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric
of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision
of the full
identity of Jesus with the
individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator
of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision
of a total cosmic reversal
of history.
«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the
individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an
identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge
in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt
of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.
The final point at which the
identity of all
individuals will be both constituted and revealed is at present only a posit or regulative principle
of reason, which we treat as if (
in hopes that?)
That prospect raises the specter
of mass society that was so much discussed
in the 1950s: no
identity stands between the atomized
individual and the nation state.
But even that kind
of story will not instill a deep Christian
identity unless it is told and retold, related
in innovative ways, and intertwined with the other
individual and collective pasts that are part
of every person's tradition.
Thus the personal
identity of Peter or Joan is an abstraction relatively to «the momentary states or events
in which alone the
individual is fully concrete or actual» (CSPM 73).
First, there is the notion
of an
individual or «primary» substance, an ousia
in Aristotle's sense, which retains its
individual identity through change and
of which universals are predicable, while it itself is predicable
of nothing.
The self -
identity of a particular is never absolute, and it is least so
in the responsible and rational activity
of self - integration,
in which the
individual power
of the act is commanded by a power that is anything but particular.
The idea that
individual identity should be subordinated to communal
identity is viewed as intolerably oppressive — except, it seems,
in the case
of the «loving gay and lesbian support community.»
Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who
in their search for personal
identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule,
in disregard
of individual and minority rights and careless
of the proper subordination
of the will
of the group to the principles
of justice.
This means that when the seat
of existence was located
in the unconscious,
individual identity through time was far less exclusive than it became with the axial shift
of center to consciousness.
Coming into a particular congregation opens the door for the
individual to participate psychologically
in this many - faceted corporate
identity, The depth
of an
individual's participation depends on the degree to which he is able to enter into the fellowship and its heritage.
We have not an
individual identity, but fragments
of experience; not the narrative
of a life that is
in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow
of experience.
The ability
of biology to detail the organisation and constitution
of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description
of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour
of an organism, should be taken into account
in the theological and philosophical discussion
of free will,
individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially
in regard to morality.
If Fitzgerald was attentive to the ways
in which financial capital was based on speculation, perhaps this time Luhrmann is attentive to the free expenditure
of capital as the basis for the celebration
of one's own
individual identity in terms
of consumer choice.
Instead, God formed the people
of Israel from
individual human beings already living
in the natural world, calling them into a new historical
identity.
In the older naturalism, the
individual is able for a moment to appreciate that aspect
of individuality which the variety
of natural circumstances creates; but true individuality is quickly lost because nature knows nothing
of the self - transcendence, self -
identity and freedom which are the real marks
of individuality.
He says that»... there is the phase
of perfected actuality,
in which the many are one everlastingly, without the qualification
of any loss either
of individual identity or
of completeness
of unity.»
Otherwise when
individual black women try to seek healing and try to move away from the Strong Black Woman, they're very much critiqued by other black women who are still
in the throes
of that
identity.
So rather than try to guess at the motives
of these
individuals, let me say this: We live
in a broken world, and there is a lot
of hurt around
identity, culture and history.
There are a variety
of ways
in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects
of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind
of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination
of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the
identities of family - bound
individuals.
Whereas membership
of a closed society helped to provide personal
identity («I'm a Scotsman», for example, or «I'm a Presbyterian»),
individuals in the open society are both freer and have more responsibility to establish their own
identity.
When a parish lacks a narrative sense
of its corporate
identity, it will probably assume that its nature is the aggregate
of personal stories
of individuals prominent
in its life.
It is no coincidence that the near unanimous judgment
of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world
in which
individual human self -
identity is missing.
Even if we could agree on the
identity of those
individuals who have attempted to consider the plethora
of theodicies
in a careful, objective manner, and even if we could determine objectively exactly which specific self - consistent, comprehensive theodicies the majority
in this group consider convincing, we would not thereby be
in a position to declare which theodicies could justifiably be considered plausible
in the objective sense Griffin envisions.
The problems
of identity and sexuality can be seen as problems
in the functioning
of a family —
in this case churches and congregations that have difficulty
in supporting
individuals in the expression
of their
identity and sexuality.
Children
in these families rarely experience or express any sense
of individual identity, and are sometimes the object
of physical and sexual abuse.
It answers questions about the final meaning
of life, and
in doing so it shapes the
identity of individuals.
The second form
of identity is how the
individual is known to the community, not only
in terms
of his or her own characteristics, but also the attributes, behaviors and roles that the community prescribes or allows for that
individual.
Lisa:
In our hyper - individualized society we have lost the sense
of being connected to much more than our own
individual identity, desires, choices, and brokenness.
As psychological sexual
identity comes to define who
individuals are
in the most basic sense, then everything else --- from society's moral norms to our physical bodies --- has the potential
of becoming simply so much external tyranny to be overthrown or turned into plastic, something to be escaped, ignored, or remade
in accordance with
individual whims.
In the first experience
of a new
individual, memory must by definition be lacking; insofar as electrons and the like lack enduring
individual identity, neither can they remember.
The curriculum they suggest, along with participation
in the community
of faith, is designed to shape Christian
identity by an intense study
of how groups and
individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues
of ultimate significance
in their age just as we do
in ours.
Thus ideals have relevance to moral experience and to the development
of identity exactly because they have not yet been fully realized and are here realizable by
individuals in the process
of self - formation.