Some use
of subjective terms may be warranted in describing the behavior of human beings and perhaps of higher animals to avoid ponderous circumlocutions, but should be avoided in attempts at the most precise formulations.
Not exact matches
Based on a comparison
of the change in
subjective well - being
of these people and
of people from the control group who had no change in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding in
terms of higher life satisfaction.
In its assessment
of our compensation program for our PMDs, Semler Brossy confirmed that the program has been aligned with and is sensitive to corporate performance, contains features that reinforce significant alignment with shareholders and a long -
term focus, and blends
subjective assessment and policies in a way that addresses known and perceived risks.
This
subjective standard, in addition to no option for reciprocal or provisional licenses, leaves businesses without much guidance in
terms of what is required to obtain a BitLicense, which undoubtedly has deterred many small business and start - ups from starting or operating virtual currency businesses in New York.
Indeed, the
term responsible investing is an evolving
term and is quite
subjective and dependent on the values and outlook
of the investor.
Now, hypothetically, if you personally maintained belief in a supreme being (one in which you had no verifiable proof
of its existence, but yet what you considered ample evidence to place your faith in) and that being had communicated morality in absolute
terms, would you define that morality as
subjective or objective?
If you go far into the world
of counter-human trafficking and the NGO community, the confusion around
terms continues, especially with words like «rescue» which remains both highly
subjective despite their common application.
AB, if you don't understand that not all people in a community
of 310 million are going to have the same fortunes, abilities, and wherewithal to succeed (a
subjective term) or not succeed, then you should probably go back to school to complete your education.
As for beauty, love, justice, virtue, will, and reason, these are all just
terms used to describe concepts, and all
of them are
subjective.
The examples given above entail that the subject prehend the past experience in
terms of its content or objective data as well as its emotion or
subjective form.
Moreover, every unificatory activity within the concrescence must, by the ontological principle, find its reason in
terms of the concrescent subject, and this is impossible for early stages if these have no
subjective aim.
If God entertains such a propositional feeling, we may conjecture that the new occasion prehends God in
terms of this propositional feeling about itself and does so with a
subjective form
of appetition conformal to that
of God.
Instead
of relying on divine propositional feeling, it seems better to have the nascent occasion simply take over the divine prehending the world, for God is unifying, and evaluating (in
terms of his
subjective forms) that world in every way which he can.
Of immediate interest is the fact that the eighteenth Category of Explanation can also be termed the «principle of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications» of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
Of immediate interest is the fact that the eighteenth Category
of Explanation can also be termed the «principle of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications» of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of Explanation can also be
termed the «principle
of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications» of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications»
of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out
of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of which that actual entity arises; the «
subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134).
Nowadays, morality is addressed in
terms of «empathy» or doing «what you FEEL is right»... but morality is OBjective, not
SUBjective, and God is the One to let us know what that morality is... not what you «think»...
I will
term this common structural characteristic the «communal»
subjective form
of transmuted feelings.
If we do have an understanding
of the conversation then the definitions
of these «packed» concepts are
subjective and we wind up debating
terms like «following Jesus» which means something entirely different to me than it did to my 92 year old grandmother.
Whitehead's unfortunate choice
of the
term «
subjective form» to refer to the «how»
of prehension may seem to suggest either a purely subjectivistic interpretation or an abstract formal character.
Religious experience has an organic structure which can be analyzed in
terms of the physical and conceptual feelings correlative to the generality
of values perceived, and the
subjective forms appropriate to each feeling element.
It is the «active «sense
of the
term which is prior; the «
subjective» and «objective» senses are both derivative from it, both logically and chronologically.
On the datum theory (Q), the concrescence had its underlying unity in
terms of its initiating datum, and the subject was the
subjective aspect
of this objective datum (early sense).
Heidegger and Whitehead both see that
subjective experience has wrongly been envisioned in past philosophy in
terms of models derived from objects
of sense - experience.
Rather than, as usual, assign the hybrid prehension
of God to the first phase, with the conceptual derivation in the second phase (which would deprive the initial phase
of simple physical feeling
of any guidance by the
subjective aim), we should think
of these two
terms as referring to the same feeling.
I do not know why Whiteheadians should object (PS 6:219) to this monistic theme, since they are committed to think in
terms of a God who supplies the initial
subjective aim
of each actual entity, and
of the completion
of the development
of the actual entity by «the final reaction
of the self - creative unity
of the universe» (PR 75 — italics supplied).
224.5 - 225.21 is a series
of «
subjective aim» insertions, to be discussed in
terms of T8.
Although «
subjective end» is obviously meant as a technical
term, it is not used outside
of this passage.
In
terms of the final theory, however, we should have expected it to end «by reason
of the
subjective aim, «12 or even to say:
The initial aim is recognized as the initiation
of subjectivity, and concrescence is understood in
terms of an enlargement
of subjective aim: «The subject completes itself during the process
of concrescence by a self - criticism
of its own incomplete phases» (PR 244G).
However, because
of the notorious vagueness
of the
term «
subjective,» I prefer the
term «agent self - consciousness.»
Vivas, for example, posits the «objectivity
of evil» as the only alternative to its being merely
subjective and defines morality in
terms of the opposition between objective duty and
subjective inclination:
Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the
term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the
term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect
of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work
of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus
of quality, the
subjective locus would be the emotional intuition
of the objective quality; this
subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment
of quality which provides the substance
of the derivative and propositional resolution
of the conflict between the individual and its environment.
At least this is the idea we propose to explore, particularly in
terms of the closing pages
of Process and Reality, for we are persuaded it offers a more fruitful way
of conceiving the preservation
of subjective immediacy than the notion
of a disembodied soul can provide.
He wrote (p. 267, my translation): «The world is a richly varied configuration
of interdependent qualities; some
of these are given factors in my (or another's) consciousness, and I call these
subjective or psychic, others are not directly given to any consciousness and these I
term objective or extramental — the concept
of the psychical does not arise in this connection.»
God could then be conceived in
terms of a universal creativity which becomes particularized into many present acts
of creativity individualized by indefinite
subjective aims.18
In Adventures
of Ideas Whitehead offers another description
of harmony: perfection
of harmony is defined in
terms of perfection
of the
subjective form
of the satisfaction
of an actual entity; and perfection
of subjective form is defined in
terms of strength, which has two components, massiveness and intensity (AI 253).
So far, my analysis
of objectification has proceeded in
terms of actual entities, simple physical feelings,
subjective aims, and negative prehensions.
It would make more sense to reconceive initial
subjective aims in
terms of propositional feelings.9 The indicated logical subjects
of the proposition can specify the standpoint (PR 283) whereas a pure eternal object can not.
Whitehead does not use the
term, savior, but he says that the wisdom
of God's
subjective aim «prehends every actuality for what it can be» (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.
Because theological talk is not empirically verifiable, it does not mean that it is therefore suprahistorical or
subjective, just as the
term «adult» is not suprahistorical or
subjective simply because it is not empirically verifiable at the level
of the fetus.
In the static pattern
of thinking, for two
terms to have each an objective meaning, they must refer to two distinct individuals or realities, not to one and the same individual, for in this second case only one
term is objective, and the other is metaphorical or
subjective.
The evolutionist holds, in fact, that what we call «good» is simply that which survives or works, and «bad» that which thwarts survival or fails, but such
terms must be purely
subjective — from the perspective
of a subject struggling to survive, a tool striving to be functional.
The book Women's Ways
of Knowing identifies the following kinds
of knowledge: received,
subjective (in
terms of the inner voice and the quest for self), procedural (reason as well as separate and connected knowing) and constructed.
Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance
of a common form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination
of the successive
subjective aims
of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation»
of the series by each succeeding
term) toward a final end or «satisfaction»
of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).
For this reason he understood the
term hypostasis / substance not in the objective sense (
of a reality present within us), but in the
subjective sense, as an expression
of an interior attitude -LSB-...] In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something
of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof
of the things that are still unseen.
In more technical
terms, the
subjective form
of the prehension
of the earlier occasions
of experience tends to conform to the
subjective form
of those occasions.
A new occasion, then, may feel past occasions in the temporal world in
terms of their aim for it, and it will be affected to some degree in the formation
of its
subjective aim by these feelings.
[4] It is here
termed «God»; because the contemplation
of our natures, as enjoying real feelings derived from the timeless source
of all order, acquires that «
subjective form»
of refreshment and companionship at which religions aim.
Sincerity, for Chou Tun - i read into process
terms, is the harmony
of ideal
subjective process with ideal objective perception and effect.
In each phase
of concrescence the
subjective aim undergoes successive modification, and each such modification is
termed a «
subjective end.»
Ahmad's «
subjective aim» for a real possibility ingredient in the context
of a concrete situation is different than, though derived from, his primordial ordering
of all abstract possibilities in
terms of his ultimate pursuit
of his goal, Mecca.