Sentences with phrase «organic unity of»

Underlying the five senses is a rich yet chaotic and vague pre-conceptual mode of perception wherein the given world enters the organic unity of chemical, visceral, and psychic processes called the human body.

We had insisted on the interconnectedness and interdependence of all things and on the organic unity of the whole.

What better word than «feeling» can we employ to indicate the power of attraction that binds the multiplicity of occasions into the organic unity of a universe?

In his perspective it is necessary to leave the plane of experience and go back to the ultimate microcosmic event - units, since it is only in the microcosm that the desired concept of an «actual entity» as an organic unity of process can find a place.

The European New Age philosophy according to Solovyev's interpretation was based on abstract foundations that were inadequate for portraying the organic unity of being.

He claimed that the solution of cultural problems and contradictions, the necessity of obtaining the organic unity of humanity's world, urgently demanded the restoration of the lost harmony between the highest values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

As Bishop O'Donoghue writes, «The organic unity of faith flows from the perfect and infinite unity of the Most Holy Trinity.

His survey's central theme is the relationship between the ideals of Christendom — an organic unity of government, church, and society — and of «biblicism,» a term he uses to convey the commitment to follow «the Bible alone» in structuring all aspects of life and faith.

I believe that one of the best routes to the center of Whitehead's perspective is to view his metaphysics as an elaboration of a basic value assumption in which the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations reflect a drive in the universe toward the evocation of greater complexity, deeper intensity, and wider range of contrasts within the organic unity of an individual or society.

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Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science as it progresses is gradually uncovering a sort of organic unity within the universe in which atoms become molecules, molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve into more complex life forms, and so on.

Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science describes a sort of organic unity within the universe in which atoms become molecules, molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve into more complex life forms, etc..

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

Since Aristotle and Whitehead are at one in distancing themselves critically from entity understood as substrate, since they both have in mind the existence of a «self» as the decisive characteristic of entity, and since moreover they both turn in the direction of organic unities and not of «things,» it becomes all the more urgent to ask just how the Whiteheadian concept of an «actual entity» is related to the Aristotelian concept of «entity.»

Whether you are a proponent of organic church, house church, mega church, or even if you are «Done» with church, this course will help all of us live in love and unity as we follow Jesus into the world.

Of course, other ordinary things like tables, cans, and, generally speaking, artificial things are less than organic unities.

Initially, Whitehead might seem to identify actual occasions as res vera to the exclusion of persons; however, careful thought, along with the addition of other Whiteheadian ideas, such as organic unities, casts doubt on the suspicion that for Whitehead only actual occasions are res vera.

We have argued that persons are res vera and that single occasions alone can not explain persons, but societies of subjectively real organic unities can to a great extent explain the complexity of persons.

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

We must keep in mind the many layers of organic unities between a person and actual occasions.

A person, then, contains within herself different times and different places of all the organic unities within herself.

The word «society» is a bit misleading; society suggests the multiple, that is, a multiplicity of occasions, as opposed to the idea of an organic unity.

Covenanting is an attempt to envision and make possible the gradual achievement of an organic unity that would bring crucial parts of the churches together.

Stapledon believes both must be present on an equal basis and calls for a system of personality - in - community, an ambiguous system of unity in diversity — an organic view of society.

This Christian stress on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence of the Christian community as well as of other human groupings, has a close relationship with the fourth assertion: that each of us is an organic unity, body - mind - spirit.

To obtain a right perspective we must remember, he says, «that the relation of a soul to its organic life depends on the degree of wholeness and unity attained by the soul.»

Just as we all know Whitehead's emphasis on atomic units, so we should also recognize Russell's presentation of organic unities, and not to take simple metaphors in an exclusive and dogmatic way.

The religious significance of Zionism becomes indisputable when one realizes that «to raise the Jews from a disintegrated and fragmented mass of individuals into an organic unity, whether it be the unity of the Jewish people as whole, or any part of it, is to create the conditions that make the Jewish religion possible» (JC 329).

But in more sophisticated actual entities, in entities higher up the scale of organic being which inherit positively a richer and more variegated set of data from the past, the responsive, supplemental phase is a process of sorting out the data, modifying and reorganizing it to arrive at a complex unity of subjective feeling.

There was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces — but was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.

The traditional ecumenical goal, «organic unity» among the churches, has fallen on bad days, largely because it is thought to call for a needless suppression of diversity achieved through a generation or more of ecclesiastical self - preoccupation.

Thus understood, the search for «organic unity» would indeed be a retreat from the vision of a dialogue of the hopes implied in the whole range of human cultures and experiences.

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

So we discern in the organic series a transcendent formative activity of creation weaving patterns of objects upon events, and an immanent energizing activity underlying events, and binding their succession into the unity of series and process upon which enduring objects may be patterned.

In the meantime it is our privilege to serve the particular group to which we happen to belong or to which we feel drawn without ceasing to do all in our power to hasten the time when the several types of Christian emphasis and witness will be brought into a genuine, free, organic unity.

Thus (provided always that we accept the organic nature of the social phenomenon) we see being woven around us, beyond any unity hitherto acknowledged or even foreseen by biology, the network and consciousness of a Noosphere (It should be noted here that by its nature as a centrated, «reflective» collectivity, the Noosphere, while occupying the same spatial dimensions as the Biosphere, differs from it profoundly in its structure and quality of vital completion.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

We define this christological aim — God's purpose in Christ — to be the creative emergence of a new organic unity incorporating man, and confess that this aim was realized in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly body on which it was born.

There is an interconnectedness of all things, the unity of the universe is organic rather than mechanical, all fundamental entities from atoms to humans contain life.

Within the United States this same drive toward mutual understanding and unity expressed itself in a series of organic unions and finally in a great federation of co-operating Church bodies.

Marzheuser affirms that «two characteristics of divine catholocity are inner diversity and fullness: a diversity of persons and a fullness of being that makes them one «29 He quotes Avery Dulles with approval with remarks, «Catholic suggests the idea of an organic whole, of a cohesion, of a firm synthesis of a reality which is not scattered, but, on the contrary, turned towards a centre which assures its unity, whatever the expanse in area or the internal differentiation might be.»

This Something may be either the universe as «a single organic unity» or it may be only «certain of these sustaining conditions,» but in either case,

I was by natural inclination drawn to the Aristotelian emphasis on the importance of plot and was also fascinated and partly persuaded by the «new critical» emphasis on the organic unity and autonomy of the literary work.

We have one of those systems of circular causation which are characteristic of the whole Whiteheadian way of thought about organic unity.

Thus society is not an organic unity embedded in a divine or divinely created cosmos but rather a conscious creation of adult individuals designed for the rational end of the mutual protection of their interests.

According to the greatest proponent of the organic model, Edmund Burke, his beloved constitution of England was not «formed upon a regular plan or with any unity of design,» but developed «in a great length of time and by a great variety of accidents.»

Yoga opens up your body and mind in a way that no blocks remain in the chakras and the body begins to exist as an organic unity with a rhythm that it creates as its own and which purifies it of toxins and prevents disease.

Her call to unity is reflected in a conscious choice of materials that include organic cotton, hemp, peace silk and Tencel.

A community of collaborative learners embraces and announces the reality that truth, and thus education, lives as an organic, mutual endeavor, generating a unity of learners while at the same time rejecting a uniformity of ideas.