Sentences with phrase «on subjective truth»

But when we include items that are based on subjective truth, such as believing we are only attracted to men who are six feet tall or have dark features, our list of deal breakers can get in the way of finding a partner.

Not exact matches

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

If «derived time» follows from something more primordial (for Whitehead, creative advance as constituted in the subjective immediacy of concrescing actual entities; for Heidegger, the truth of Being as disclosed in the «openness» which pervades Dasein on the basis of its ecstatic - horizontal temporality), that something must not itself be time - like, or talk of «derivation» is otiose.

While I do think there are certain «subjective truths» (depending on how we define truth, of course), I do not think that all truth is subjective.

(a) Hartshorne's objection to my position on truth would be that I assume that there are truths about the past and that truth is real now as involving a relation of correspondence with an object, the past; however, the past on my view is not real now, is not preserved in its full subjective immediacy in the consequent nature of God.

If «derived time» follows from something more primordial (for Whitehead, creative advance as constituted in the subjective immediacy of concrescing actual entities; for Heidegger, the truth of Being as disclosed in the «openness» which pervades Dasein on the basis of its ecstatic - horizontal temporality), that something must not itself be time - like, or talk of «derivation» is...

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

Both claim to be in a possession of the Truth they can not possess, arguing their subjective, arrogant, conceptual point of view (opinion), based on their extremely limited and bias perception of Reality.

Feigning a discussion about objective vs. subjective morality without qualifying values in the example in an attempt to get the casual reader to focus on the value the crafty writer wants you to adopt a an absolute truth — in this case how bad it would be to BBQ your grandmother, so that he can claim the the reader believes in objective «truths».

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.

Others believed their truth (no capital T) was subjective and personal, something they developed over time, something neither final nor totally accurate, though they believed it was based on the best available evidence.

Wounded as it has been by the absolutist claims of 20th - century totalitarianism, contemporary consensus demotes truth — on the one hand to something purely subjective (signifying fidelity solely to one's own sentiments and often offending against the principle of non-contradiction), on the other to the merely convenient (namely, to «what works»).

Was I being asked, yet again, to profess my faith only on the Kantian precondition that I admit all truths about God — if there are any — to be irreducibly subjective?

It is truer to say our subjective take on the Bible (fears, biases, etc.) obstructs the truth in the Bible.

Taking creeds and faith - state together, as forming «religions,» and treating these as purely subjective phenomena, without regard to the question of their «truth,» we are obliged, on account of their extraordinary influence upon action and endurance, to class them amongst the most important biological functions of mankind.

In the campaign the candidates specifically targeted sectors of the electorate based on a number of subjective criteria: this makes it very likely that the polls merely represents the candidates» marketing campaign strategy and not some deeper truth.

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.

This tells us that the neurons» responses were based on the subjective, perceived judgments that the patients made rather than on the «ground truth» of the emotion shown in the stimulus.»

On it, «subjective perception and experience become the sole arbiter of truth,» as my colleague Sara Mead wrote, and «we are left with the... forces of emotion, sentiment, and affinity to guide our judgments and decisions.»

Six Thai artists reflect on the current state of Thailand in «Subjective Truth», an exhibition curated by Iola Lenzi at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong and coinciding with the first edition of Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.

Whenever you can, remember to keep subjective opinions on color choice and typefaces separate from objective truths about what works and what doesn't.