Sentences with phrase «on earlier understandings»
Children's knowledge grows over time as they build on earlier understandings.
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Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.
So you have your earliest adopters who are very hard core on the engineering side, and now we're starting to see people who have experience at later - stage startups who understand the UX and business portion of it.
With a listing on TSXV, an early - stage company benefits from a marketplace — including the exchange, professional advisors, regulatory model and investor base — that understands venture companies.
They understood early on that in a global economy, clear, concise, communication is everything.
He knew very little about digital media in those early days, relying entirely on his understanding of Facebook (fb) instead.
Besides the absurd valuation (and the existential angst the valuation has apparently unleashed for some) I just never understood something more basic: What's the incentive or value of taking on that much VC at such an early stage?
Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood from the beginning the need to partner with car companies and early on sought to imagine how that collaboration might work.
Get organized and discuss project objectives early on so that you understand what your boss wants to accomplish.
Early on, many teams do a poor job of understanding the difference between a solution to the problem and their service.
Watching this young entrepreneur go through the difficult steps to truly understand what he wanted for himself and his ultimate company was inspiring, because he did the work early on to better understand what created his drive.
Gross also responded to Jeremy Siegel's comments on Bloomberg TV earlier Thursday that Gross doesn't know economics by suggesting that he «hasn't even read my piece, let alone understood it.»
I understand the risk of passing on the tax benefit now, but if we will need withdraw from investments during early retirement, would it not make sense to first withdraw from the Roth IRA contributions instead of requiring us to invest / withdraw more from taxable accounts?
It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»
A company that early on understood the relationship between reader enthusiasm and selling stuff?
This is why I said earlier that the impact trade imbalances might have on the U.S. economy is far easier to understand than we might at first think.
«Jason not only understands the potential impact of crowdfunding and fintech innovation on alternative finance markets but been a huge supporter of NCFA since the early days.
Investors understood early on, we were going to lose money in order to build a much bigger company»
By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer December 16, 2015 One of the most important achievements of highly successful investors is to identify and understand — early on — a trend that becomes a dominant investment theme.
The BlackRock Investment Institute took some of the firm's most senior portfolio managers to Frankfurt, Berlin and Milan earlier this month to understand what's taking place on the ground, and whether the recovery is for real.
Often concentrating on the early writings such as the Habilitationsschrift and the Lublin lectures (neither has been translated into English), the author indicates where the young thinker incorporated Scheler's phenomenological value ethics, Kant's formalistic ethics of duty, and Aquinas» understanding of the rational desire of the will into his own synthesis of human action and value.
In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»
It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.
And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.
The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.
This book does not address Scripture, but it sheds important light on the cultural norms and practices that would have shaped early Christians» understandings of same - sex sexuality.
This would involve emphasising early on the correct order of priority when understanding the meaning of «the Word of God»: namely 1.
It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.
Scholars, on the other hand, as we have seen earlier, mean by it «a traditional narrative involving supernatural persons», of which the truth is not literal but to be understood as illuminating the meaning of human life.
Early on, having admitted the difficulty of speaking of ultimate mystery at all, he adds, «This does not mean that it is not worth saying, that it is just empty talk... I do have some things to say, but... I want it understood from the outset how problematic all of this is, how uncertain; but however uncertain, these are matters worth attending to, worth trying to understand as well as we can.»
An earlier version of this book was of immense help to me as I learned about the roles of faith and works in the life of the believer, and how to understand most of the tough texts in the Bible on this topic.
Cahill correctly points, for example, to Luke's understanding of Christian poverty, friendship, communal living, and care for the stranger or enemy as based on the teaching and example of Jesus and carried on within the early Christian communities.
In commenting on an earlier draft of my paper, Ford proposed that the category of nexus can be understood solely in terms of something like this thesis.
Their whole analysis of decline hangs on a prescriptive or normative understanding of church - relatedness, and that normative understanding resembles suspiciously what the colleges were, or at least claimed to be, sometime earlier in the century, in perhaps some «golden age» of church - relatedness (and, unfortunately, often concomitant ethnic insularity and academic mediocrity).
Recent Catholic thought on war has, as I suggested earlier, diverged in important respects from the classic understanding of just war.
Since our usual understanding of Whitehead is based on his final views, the earliest strata will seem most foreign to us.
This left the way clear for such early pioneers of religious psychology as John Trenchard to uncover the supposed pathological origins of religion in the soul while still appearing to be on the side of «God» (properly understood).
There he is free to make explicit the Christian claim that Isaiah 53 was a text, «as authoritative scripture, that exercised pressure on the early church in its struggle to understand the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.»
For Christendom in earlier times the Church was the plank of salvation in the shipwreck of the world, the small barque on which alone men are saved, the small band of those who are saved by the miracle of grace from the massa damnata, and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus was understood in a very exclusive and pessimistic sense.
In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.
«In spite of certain changes in mood and language, the core of the philosophy developed by the young Marx was never changed and it is impossible to understand his concept of socialism and his criticism of capitalism as developed in his later writings except on the basis of the concept of man which he developed in his early writings».
If such a teaching on faith or morals appears to anyone to conflict with earlier teachings, the problem is not with the truth of the Council's statement but with our understanding of the Church's full teaching of which the Council's statement is inescapably a part.
It arose from several sources, including simultaneous attempts on the part of several clinicians in the early Fifties to understand and to treat their schizophrenic patients more successfully than had been the case with orthodox one - to - one approaches (see HFT).
The medieval church had long forgotten the earlier understanding of the eucharistic prayer as the recital of the whole history of salvation; it preferred, instead, to focus on the words of institution.
Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.
This emphasis on suffering in the flesh and the link to salvation is also found in Tertullian, whose understanding is encapsulated in the phrase «caro salutis cardo,» from the treatise De resurrectione mortuorum, 8.2, translated by Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa as «the flesh is the axis of salvation,» in his article, «Caro salutis cardo: Shaping the Person in Early Christian Thought,» History of Religion, Vol.
It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.
I can understand making the point that the people of Ferguson should be invited to forgive what they perceived as a wrong on the part of the officer...... but for you to make the assumption and then state that the Officer's action was «wrong» (if that is what you meant to say) is not something I can agree with, not without your full rationale (which maybe I missed from an earlier post)....
For those who want to understand early Judaism on its own terms but whose primary familiarity with it is through the New Testament, Sanders's writings are invaluable.
In their historical context, however, the issues, in response to which the Pauline formula was forged, no longer existed: because Christianity was well on the way to becoming a gentile religion, separate from Judaism, the question of the salutary benefit of faith in Christ, which earlier had arisen among Christians who did not observe the cultic requirements of Jewish law, and in that sense were without «works of the law, arose now among Christians whose lives exhibited moral laxity, which could be understood in terms of popular moral philosophy.