Sentences with phrase «of value in»

In fact, although Goldstein mentions in the her introduction that she wanted to give Plato a chance to learn from and recognize the value of modern thought, most of Plato's interlocutors exist more to draw Plato out than to offer anything of value in return.

With all that, still, I am somewhat reluctant to be critical because there is so much of value in the book.

«16 This latter point does express an insight of Whitehead's, but he makes only general statements such as: «The purpose of God is the attainment of value in the temporal world.»

It is likely, therefore, that substantial research is being held by the major religious broadcasters which could be of value in addressing some of the persistent questions in religious broadcasting, if it were made available for wider use.

The realization of some value in a moment requires, in order to be seriously affirmed, the conviction that it matters beyond itself.

Betty and I figured we really couldn't pray, but at least we could meet and talk about our beliefs about prayer, and see if there was anything we could find of value in praying.

But insofar as prehension, the mechanism of concretion developed in Science and the Modern World (and later in Process and Reality), can be interpreted in specifically human terms, this aesthetic principle is especially crucial to the increase of value in human existence, providing persons adjust themselves to it.

In the ecological model what has been achieved of value in cosmic history is saved.

We are so conditioned to think of value in moral or ethical terms that we may be bewildered by any attempt to express ultimate value in terms of criteria of beauty.6

Even though I poke fun at the idea of «sheep» being an analogy for church people, I still find lots of value in it.

«Humankind is not the exclusive or ultimate center of value in creation» he writes.

All things being equal, something of value in this life is preferable to the comfort of wrapping one's self in a nice, warm delusion.

In Reconstruction of Thinking (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981), Neville argues that thinkers such as Dewey and Whitehead are correct in emphasizing the essential role of value in all thinking, but that a fuller account is needed of the grounds for comparison of values, the responsibilities involved in valuation, etc. (see, e.g..

These principles can themselves be seen as «aesthetic» in both the narrower and the broader sense: they define the conditions for the achievement of value in a work of art, or in the experience of any actual occasion.

The only thing of value in a word is not the word itself, but the cause of the word.

Certainly, much of value in human and ecological terms is already, irretrievably, lost.

I do appreciate your comments about Christ - esteem vs. self - esteem, and see a lot of value in the argument for Christ - esteem instead of self - esteem.

There is a lot of value in rediscovering the art of the past, the art that has stood the test of time.

If the decision that establishes the order among possibilities makes possible the growth of value in the world, it seems to be for the benefit of the creatures, and hence to express love for them.

But as we get more experience we realize there might be something of value in those old rocks worth mining for.

However, the Whiteheadian God only intends such an end through being the lure towards the best possible actualization of value in any occasion.

Put aside the shopworn arguments about religion people on this blog microfocus on & there is a lot of value in the article.

Sociologist Ernest Becker thinks that human existence is largely a performance we put on in order to gain a feeling of value in the eyes of others, or perhaps just one other.

The purpose of presenting a description of the experience of value in theology is to bring it to bear as a factual generalization that is evidentially relevant to theistic interpretation.

In the second place, he proposes to the truly revolutionary societies an attention to what is of value in their own contexts, and a program for growth to world consciousness — education, religion, an ethical business community, and so on.

I see nothing of value in what they are producing, since all they are showing is scorn and disgust for their fellow humans.

Because each person is of value in the sight of God, human personality is sacred, an end and never a means.

So Whitehead concludes, «Thus the effective realization of value in the World of Change should find its counterpart in the World of Value: — this means that temporal personality in one world involves immortal personality in the other.

Personality then is the best example of a sustained realization of value in the world.

I do find a lot of value in inter-belief work and I do see a lot of value in general charity work.»

We see in the world of change that enduring personal identity is the realization of value in that world.

Without the generation of value in the mode of zest and adventure, education will fail.

There is so much of value in this delightful book that it is difficult to be brief, yet it is not a long book.

There are the questions of value in the immediate present and value in the future, the value of my experiences and the value of others.

Cobb claims that although this conclusion fails to require the complete preservation of value in God, philosophically the continuance of value in God does remain a possibility.

One of the tasks of a preacher is to bring to those who hear him exactly this understanding of the human predicament: a genuine sense of value in human life but yet an accompanying grasp of its incompleteness, frustration, and inadequacy.

This principle of value in and for itself is violated when what are termed liberal studies (and what may be so for other students) are pursued for the purpose of becoming a professional in liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).

With a total disregard to this cardinal religious principle market seeks the expansion of value in mathematical variables as its directing principle.

But when one explains his theory of value in more familiar categories, the point is important.

If gain is the criterion of value in work, efficiency — maximum results from minimum effort — is the major consideration.

He returned to the subject of value in Adventures of Ideas.

He does not see others as real persons, unique and of value in themselves, but in terms of their status, their usefulness, or their similarity to other individuals with whom he has had relationships in the past.

Because both Whitehead's and Stapledon's Gods are affected by their own creations, learning from their creations, nothing of value in the universe is lost.

Didn't I know that these groups were part of a right - wing conspiracy and culturally retrograde > How could I find anything of value in such unsophisticated theology?

It is the ability to see that there are many things of value in our lives, some of them more suited to one time than to another.

It is a mistake to set aside this sociality of value in thinking about God.

«What acts as one feels as one» is my doctrine, derived from Leibniz, and the criteria of value in feelings as such are aesthetic.

To be life - centered is to be especially attuned to the value of living beings amid one's ecological sensitivity, cognizant of their value in and for themselves, for one another, and for God.

An environmental philosopher who has thought much about the issue of value in nature is Holmes Rolston, III (PGW).

Luther taught that we are saved by faith alone and thus that no human work is of value in securing a place in the Kingdom of God.