Sentences with phrase «other objective realities»

The author discusses such approaches as hallucinatory, visionary, spiritual, and other objective realities.

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And apropos of your commentary, I think we also continuously fabricate stories about ourselves to ourselves (as well as to others)-- though we often persuade ourselves that this is objective introspection and thus represents reality.

Yet Christians continue to be encountered by his living presence in other modes, and the reality of their experience is more easily understandable, to say the least, if the appearances at Easter were a real encounter with an objective presence.

Many others, who did grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories of the empty tomb as the basis of my interpretation of that act of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding of the Easter message.

Maybe its because, unlike others, Obama has tried his best to square his religion with undeniable reality, facts, objective morality, and human rights.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

In the static pattern of thinking, for two terms to have each an objective meaning, they must refer to two distinct individuals or realities, not to one and the same individual, for in this second case only one term is objective, and the other is metaphorical or subjective.

The objective content of conformal feelings constitutes reality as experienced, for it embodies our direct confrontation with other actualities (Adventures of Ideas 269).

Furthermore, thus understood, the State, the Church, and other forms of objective Spirit in Hegel's philosophy could never be misinterpreted as totalitarian realities.

The other is an objective moral norm which does not permit considering the act of generation a reality to be decided arbitrarily, irrespective of the divine plan of human procreation.

For the religiously orthodox, religious belief systems were felt to represent «objective» reality as it really is, and thus if one of them is true the others must be false, either absolutely or in some degree.

Atheists do not believe in any god or other ent.ities that exist outside of all objective reality.

DHOGAZA: In other words, most of modern science is simply a plot to extend the power of government, and has no basis in objective reality or data, right?

The perceived implications of global warming being a real problem are so dissonant with some other value system that it imposes some kind of filter on the interpretation of objective reality.

You have successfully eroded any confidence, dispelled any trust, and driven your audience into the arms of the Internet and the blogosphere, where biases are affirmed and like - minded people can tell each other what they hold to be true, since nobody believes in objective reality any more.

If one accepts that there is no other practical means of accomplishing this objective but to raise the price of carbon and to restrict its availability, the reality here is that one has to figure out how to do this without the use of a Congressionally - legislated carbon tax, and to do it without violating the Constitution.

That reality, among other risks, and the fact that our current transportation infrastructure is locked in to oil, should be sufficient to convince any objective observer that oil dependence today creates serious and pressing dangers for the US and other oil - importing nations.

Still others go even wider, making beauty a phenom of nature, which is more or less to say that beauty is an objective reality at least... [more]

In other words, we are the creators of our reality — not the passive receivers of objective «truth».