It is a complex construct, covering both affect and psychological functioning with two distinct perspectives: - the hedonic perspective, which focuses
on the subjective experience of happiness and life satisfaction, and the eudaimonic perspective, focusing on psychological functioning and self realisation [3].
Think how unreliable your sources must be, basing their narrative
on subjective experience and word of mouth!
Blackmore takes a massive shortcut through thousands of years of philosophical reflection
on subjective experience — humanity — to say «it's a process `, yet can not explain the process.
His multidisciplinary work examines the element of context and its effect
on subjective experience.
Olafur Eliasson has long combined aesthetic rigor with an emphasis
on subjective experience.
But because we focus
on subjective experience as the locus of value, and because we believe that human experiences are the richest on this planet, we also affirm of human beings a quite distinct and special status.
Not only is the salacious and sensationalist male gaze, which is often present in films of this nature, completely absent, but Shortland avoids going through the motions of delivering the obvious plot points to instead focus
on the subjective experiences of the character.
A presupposition of dream work is the argument that each person has his or her own unique dream «language», based
on the subjective experiences of their upbringing and ongoing lives.
In accordance with the importance that the phenomenological approach attaches to subjectivity and sense of self as the starting points for knowledge, emphasis is placed on the need for the clinician to focus
on the subjective experiences of the at - risk individual, to set aside prior assumptions, judgments, or interpretations, and to identify ways of bridging gaps in communication associated with negative emotions.
Accordingly, humanistic psychology focuses
on subjective experiences of persons instead of factors that determine behavior.
Not exact matches
Depending
on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data
on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and
subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they
experience positive and negative emotions.
A billion
subjective experiences are not evidence, otherwise we would run our lives
on common dreams.
The solution remains mathematically deficient in an important sense until the mathematician has spelled it out, i.e., has set it out in an explicit, discursive form which stands
on its own merits, independent of the particular
subjective experience whose objective content the mathematician has sought to display in the explicit formulae.
He points out that if the expression had been uttered
on many previous occasions, then the present
experience would be an energizing of
subjective forms of a reiterative type.
Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism
on the centrality of the «
subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human
experience.
On the negative side, no living person had any subjective experience of death, and on the positive side, the dead person who appeared and spoke to him in his dreams seemed just as alive as eve
On the negative side, no living person had any
subjective experience of death, and
on the positive side, the dead person who appeared and spoke to him in his dreams seemed just as alive as eve
on the positive side, the dead person who appeared and spoke to him in his dreams seemed just as alive as ever.
But a study of history,
on the contrary, demonstrates that religion is not a purely
subjective phenomenon; it is rather a historical phenomenon that shapes and transcends individual
experience.
Furthermore, the particular
experiences interpreted as religious
on the basis of the categoreal feelings and
subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded
on the basis of an alternative value judgment.
The hybrid physical feeling of God, which is (
on the traditional Whiteheadian account) the
subjective aim for any particular occasion of the young woman s
experience, is also a prehension of the past from which she inherits — it is, after all, a physical feeling.
If our world were a centered universe, a universe with an all - seeing (i.e., all - prehending) God with the ability to introduce,
on his own, new information pertaining to the past into the
experience of emerging actual occasions by means of their
subjective aims, then our world would be a much more harmoniously ordered world than it in fact is.
Three factors stand out as essential to Whitehead's account of emotional
experience: (1) active response
on the part of the subject, (2) the qualitative character of this response, and (3) the object as causally related to the
subjective response.
«These lectures will be best understood by noting the following list of prevalent habits of thought, which are repudiated, in so far as concerns their influence
on philosophy:... (vii) The Kantian doctrine of the objective world as a theoretical construct from purely
subjective experience» (PR xiii [x]-RRB-.
Our developed consciousness fastens
on the sensum as datum: our basic animal
experience entertains it as a type of
subjective feeling.
On the other hand, every correlation between physiological functioning and
subjective experience (and I assume that far more such correlation will be discovered in the future) is hailed as proof that eventually the reduction of psychology to physiology and biology will be achieved.
Given any set of objective conditions or circumstances, the
subjective experience of an individual (and the meaning assigned to any condition) will depend
on the climate of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs s / he maintains.
I intuitively sense an Immanent, Benevolent Presence in my life; but, of course spiritual
experience is a
subjective matter dependent
on many factors — temperamental tendencies that are genetically predisposed (not determined) and personal
experiences, so I am not claiming my
experience is any sort of empirical «proof» for the existence of God that should convince others.
If the reality of
subjective experience is acknowledged at all, it is held to be fully caused by physical events and to have no reciprocal causal influence
on them.
I disagree with him, however,
on the one point where he makes common cause with Pannenberg: namely, that apart from the apocalyptic horizon, the disciples»
experiences can only be regarded as
subjective hallucinations.
As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «
subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete
experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues
on its way.
These movements, followed by Methodism and the evangelical revival, focused
on inner
subjective experience, just as the charismatic movements have been doing in the late twentieth century.
For
on his own principles if there were not some kind of awareness of causal efficacy, there would be no warrant for making statements about it: «Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in
subjective experience» (PR 166/253).
Since omniscience is not a human attribute, we are all dependent
on our own and the collective
subjective experience of our social group for our presuppositions.
Accordingly,
on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in
subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).
As earlier with regard to poetic discourse
on the objective side of the idea of revelation, so too
on the
subjective side, the
experience of testimony can only provide the horizon for a specifically religious and biblical
experience of revelation, without our ever being able to derive that
experience from the purely philosophical categories of truth as manifestation and reflection as testimony.
Once I would realize that the past was meaningful, that my past selves live
on in the present, although certainly not in their
subjective immediacy, I could let go, give up my clinging, and be more fully present in my current momentary
experience and to the world.
On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning in the realization of a novel
subjective experience.
In a recent survey of research in this area, John Searle suggests that the task of banishing mystery from consciousness depends
on finding a way to explain that aspect of
subjective experience that he calls «qualitative feels.»
Later
on, he relates it to Hume's doctrine «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in
subjective experience.
Rather, Bergson's influence
on Whitehead is entirely similar to that of William James, as pertaining almost entirely to Whitehead's development of a theory of
subjective experience.
On the basis of
experience from a variety of sources a religious person and the theologian formulate a theory which, like any theory dealing with complex issues in science, is a matter of weighing one
experience against another, together with much
subjective judgment.
On the contrary, Whitehead insists that every occasion in this long history is, during its moment of becoming, a subject governed by
subjective aim and characterized by both a physical and a mental pole of
experience.
This sort of concept is» likely to be based
on some transcendent universal such as
subjective religious
experience or a categorical ethical imperative.
As reflection
on experiences of personal relationships, theology is something «
subjective.»
What happens in
subjective experience has no effect
on the physical events in the brain, and one moment of such human
experience has no effect
on successor moments.
Given this assumption, the research program is to show the effects of neuronal events
on other neuronal events and
on subjective states of human
experience.
An arbitrary selection from the season based mainly
on games,
experiences had first - hand and therefore
subjective.
Some of the information is very
subjective and based
on the
experiences or opinions of particular individuals.
Either way, there is here, once again, no such thing as objective truth — just the passing shades of our own
subjective experiences, like shadows
on a wall.
Other drugs have the opposite effect
on dopamine and compress the
subjective experience of time.
The method relies
on the availability of a potential user base, the costs of the drug (legal and otherwise), the
subjective experience, the substance's dependence potential, and the overall ease of acquisition.