Sentences with phrase «of pure objectivity»

As a species we're entirely incapable of pure objectivity and it's our subjectivity which makes us truly passionate about things like videogames.

Many people here, especially Dave, are good writers and editors but they make no claims of pure objectivity.

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Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.

All consideration in terms of process is merely an ordering of pure «having become,» of the separated world - event, of objectivity as though it were history; the presence of the Thou, the becoming out of solid connexion, is inaccessible to it.

In a department of this kind, professors are not required to pretend to pure neutrality or objectivity.

The IPCC is not, in fact, an objective, neutral body that evaluates pure research; it is a dominantly political body controlled by a tight group of true believers — an advocacy organization that only pretends to scientific objectivity.

It would seem almost a prostitution to take these texts, which I had analyzed with the purest objectivity of which I was capable, and to apply them somehow to this bickering yet beloved parish.

To be sure, there is here the possibility of a greater degree of subjectivity than in the more formal linguistic and textual study, but even there pure objectivity is by no means possible.

This resource covers Kant including: - Kant understanding of pure reason, a priori knowledge and objectivity - Kant's Copernican revolution - Practical moral reason - Moral Law, Good Will, duty and the summum bonum - Strengths and weaknesses - The theory of W.D. Ross I would recommend this revision map to be printed and enlarged to A3 paper for maximum benefit.

Some of the work in dis / exists posit a distant scientific approach but simultaneously undermine their objectivity; others are in full pursuit of pure beauty but in such analytical fashion that they seem almost otherwordly; a few series of images do not seem to believe in the existence of the image without an intervention from the outside; and others only see the world through the image which reveals it.

Across the street, the Hans Hofmann School buzzed with students eager to set objectivity aside and take up pure abstraction — Fine was one of them.

To imagine that some kinds of geoengineering research can be quarantined from societal concern and demands for regulation, as Parson and Keith do, requires a belief that pure research can somehow be precipitated out of a social solution using the power of «objectivity» as the precipitant.