Sentences with phrase «own experience of the world»

Quantum Leaders understand how their choices lead to their emotional experience of the world and their mental state.

Reason is bigger than God, unless we are so hopelessly deluded in our experience of the world that reason itself is an illusion.

I asked her what she thought of that story and she, as a child, was able to evaluate her own lived experience of the world and respond, «that sounds fake».

Belief over-shadows what are the available experiences of the world.

But we are fortunate if we are not encouraged to confuse the two quite different experiences of the world.

But Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's ultimate objective.

«What I am describing is the mode of the whole human experience of the world.

Change and time in our experience of the world are perceived as related to the differences between objects.

If, Polanyi insists, Copernicus had followed the procedures of «critical philosophy» and reasoned from his experience of the world, he would not have reached his conclusions about planetary motion.

However creation was accomplished, it is all the work of a deity who is the ultimate and finally responsible causative agent; secondary causation, such as we know in our own experience of the world, is derivative from and in every respect dependent upon the first cause.

Our experience of the world is fundamentally that of order rather than chaos, otherwise we would not even be able to talk of a world or universe in an intelligible fashion.

Then there is the other issue of some people selling the mechanistic view short and claiming it somehow cheapens our experience of the world.

By treating these two facets of God's nature in isolation Wieman loses the Whiteheadian vision of a dynamic God who is intimately related to the world, who is capable of sharing in the experience of the world and responding to that experience by adjusting the divine role in each new entity's self - creation appropriately to the new situation.

if it corresponds to an actual reality, must be able to illumine not only human existence, but also experience of the world as a whole.

By thus generalizing what is manifest in our experience of the world into a necessary feature of every final actuality, Whitehead arrives at what I have termed the thesis of solidarity (MT 227).

As we have seen, because God is supremely relative, affected by others in the best possible way, and feels the experiences of others better than any other, God does mirror the experience of the world.

Futhermore, where experience is mixed, as with our experience of the world's good and evil, a priori reasoning can be of considerable importance in supporting our confidence that some supposed «felt concrete redemption is no illusion but an authentic experience of what really is (and perhaps even must be) the case.

This bond between world and occasion, Whitehead immediately admits, is a «baffling antithetical relation»; but for him, when we examine our everyday experience of the world, or when we inquire into the presuppositions of common practice, or into the presuppositions of the natural sciences, or into the presuppositions of basic epistemic claims, we run again and again into this paradoxical relation of mutual immanence (MT 218f).

Consciousness basically involves an awareness of the world and one's own experience of the world, and also an effort to make sense of the world (CC 299 - 317).

What happens in the world «makes a difference» to God in that those events influence the quality of the divine experience of the world.

In both dipolarity and dual transcendence, God's experience is not merely the experience of the world.

For Whitehead and Merleau - Ponty there is an attempt to go beyond the «conceptual fixation» of the eidectic reduction to the concrete experience of the world.

This means her experience was what her soul (self) experienced of the world her body provided.

Both would be in your view «pointy - headed intellectuals» but in my experience of the world, anti-religion is worse than a naturalistic embrace of it.

But this unification in God is never finished; rather it is constantly enriched by the actual experience of the world.5

One of the striking findings of modern scholarship in religion is the enormous similarity if not identity of the experiences of the world of archaic peoples.

In his view, and in the view taken by most sociologists of religion, the symbolic realm is both prior to and constitutive of our very experience of the world.

To begin with, how can things so insecure as the successful experiences of this world afford a stable anchorage?

More important, this meant that for Socrates the categories in which he thought about the soul were derived from the experience of the world as it was given especially in vision.

Thus every experience of the world and the interpretation of the world based on it are inter-subjectively or intercommunicatively grounded.

It is a contribution because it is a unique experience of the world that only this woman will generate, and so it adds to God's total experience or relationship.

Thus God's particular experiences of the world are spatio - temporally localized with respect to their objective data, but they are trans - spatio - temporally unified within the eternity of the one divine concrescence.

God's experience of the world is essentially determined by efficient causation, by the conformal repetition of finite emotional experiences in subjective form (PR 345/523).

Whitehead's divine, enduring actuality is recurrently revising his ongoing experience of the world in response to the demand for personal, vital, concrete integrity.

Certainly not in our experience of the world around us.

What made Forman's demand possible in 1969 was an important redefinition of the idea of reparations that grew out of the experience of World War II and the discovery of the extermination of six million of Europe's Jews by the Nazis.

In short, relative to any stage of the advancing world and to any novel actuality, God is an instance of final and efficient causation, achieving his own novel experience of the world.

Certainly I am unwilling to accept the idea that non-rationality squanders God's experiencing of the world in the same way hate does.

For Henry, the luxurious decoration of a public square, the luxurious ornamentation of a building, even the luxurious embellishment of one's own person were essentially a matter of enriching our visual experience of the world.

Regularly attending a larger Faith conference that draws young people from all over the UK gives a young person an experience of the world outside his or her parish, gives encouragement, and offers speakers of a quality that a local parish might not be able to provide.

In this way, their power to distort experience of that world is broken.

They no longer constituted a pervasive aspect of the total experience of the world.

God's total experience of the world is constantly growing and being enriched by the world's growth.

Beyond the use of the imagination in widening our experience of the world and refining our consciousness, the use of the imagination in religion can save us from another problem — namely, the tendency to take pleasure in cruel things.

God therefore seeks in his experience of the world the maximum attainment of intensity compatible with harmony that is possible under the circumstances of the actual situation.

This article contends that art has the effect of raising questions by expanding one's experience of the world.

Justice, on the other hand, expresses God's concern for the social situation of the togetherness of all occasions, since his experience of the world necessarily includes all the harmonies and clashes between individual achievements.

Put simply, this has to mean that where there is deep and urgent concern for basic human needs, for food and clothing and health care and education, there can not be the requisite peace for the experience of world consciousness.

This is a prerequisite for the experience of world consciousness.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.