Sentences with phrase «own individual identity»

There are plenty of networks and sensors in the world, says Martin, but while they detect the presence of humans, they don't recognize individual identities.
Increased competition has heightened the banks» interest in offering value and quality to customers, and forced banks to form individual identities.
Java Dave's Coffee supports independent coffee houses and offers strong branding concepts with the Java Dave's logo, cups, packaging and signage but still allow for a store's individual identity.
Blockchain technology can enable entities independent of each other to rely on the same shared, secure and auditable source of information to manage individual identities.
The authors judge, correctly I reckon, that however individualistic conservatives» political and theological ideology may be, their churches are apt to function more like authentic communities — close - knit groups, commitment to which is viewed by their members not as optional but as integral to individual identity.
If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.
While individual identities never die, all that which they become in history and experience must pass through an eternal death, and it is precisely this passage through death which effects a cosmic and total regeneration.
Only such a negation of our given and individual identity and reality can annul the otherness of the other.
His treatment of tradition, moreover, explicates the mechanisms by which communities of memory and individual identities are linked.
But people also needed to maintain an allegiance to a smaller group identity to maintain a healthy individual identity.
First, there is the notion of an individual or «primary» substance, an ousia in Aristotle's sense, which retains its individual identity through change and of which universals are predicable, while it itself is predicable of nothing.
The idea that individual identity should be subordinated to communal identity is viewed as intolerably oppressive — except, it seems, in the case of the «loving gay and lesbian support community.»
Only because our species evolved within such societies do we now have, each of us, the capacity to experience reflective self - consciousness and develop an individual identity.
This means that when the seat of existence was located in the unconscious, individual identity through time was far less exclusive than it became with the axial shift of center to consciousness.
Furthermore, men have always had an important measure of individual identity through time.
We have not an individual identity, but fragments of experience; not the narrative of a life that is in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow of experience.
The ability of biology to detail the organisation and constitution of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour of an organism, should be taken into account in the theological and philosophical discussion of free will, individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially in regard to morality.
«Perfected actuality» is attained when «the many are one everlastingly, without the qualification of any loss either of individual identity or of completeness of unity.
If Fitzgerald was attentive to the ways in which financial capital was based on speculation, perhaps this time Luhrmann is attentive to the free expenditure of capital as the basis for the celebration of one's own individual identity in terms of consumer choice.
We pray primarily as members of the community of Christ's followers, where our individual identity, purpose and welfare are nested.
But Whitehead says we are included «without the qualification of any loss, either of individual identity or of completeness of unity.»
He says that»... there is the phase of perfected actuality, in which the many are one everlastingly, without the qualification of any loss either of individual identity or of completeness of unity.»
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 350) Individual identity and completeness of unity are retained, as apparently is immediacy.
Or, rather, world and individual identity here come together and are indistinguishable — thereby truly paralleling Zen — but their very identity is of such a kind that the individual not only wills but also enacts his total responsibility for the world.
Children in these families rarely experience or express any sense of individual identity, and are sometimes the object of physical and sexual abuse.
Individual identity is supported, but only to the extent that it may conform to the rules and stereotypes.
Lisa: In our hyper - individualized society we have lost the sense of being connected to much more than our own individual identity, desires, choices, and brokenness.
In the first experience of a new individual, memory must by definition be lacking; insofar as electrons and the like lack enduring individual identity, neither can they remember.
Like Eliot and Valéry, Borges would, to a degree, negate individual identity, but would aim simultaneously to rescue every literary work's originality through the creative act of reading.
My reply is that memory behavioristically is shown by the influence of the past of the individual on its present, and I wonder how physics can reduce such influence to zero while still maintaining even partial individual identity.
Ackerman observes: «Individual identity requires support from family identity, and family identity in turn requires support from the wider community.»
But any judgment as to individual identity is output and is regulated by its principle of continuity.
But he never confused this logical notion of identity («things are identical» when every predicate is true of both or false of both» [3.398]-RRB- with the notion of individual identity through time, which is at issue here.
The assumption he made instead is that the existence of an individual, but not its individual identity, consists simply in reaction, opposition, pure secondness.»
Peirce did make use of a rather unusual notion of individual identity as analogous to a continuous «line,» a continuity, of reactions.
I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.
The inconsistencies Murphey finds in Peirce's attempt to define individual identity are unavoidable if one begins with the assumption that the identity of an individual consists in a collection of independent reactions.
The fact that Peirce conceived of individual identity in this way is not, I would urge, simply the result of an uncritical love for continuity.
What is intelligible is not its existence but its individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions.
The generality intended here is supplied by Peirce's concept of individual identity.
And this persistence is intelligible only as a continuity of reactions; a collection of discrete reactions can never be welded into an individual identity.
When I judge on the basis of a single reaction that there is an object there in the dark I have bumped against, I must apply the concept of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions.
The concept of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions functions as a regulative principle for the process that renders the output (ultimately the world) intelligible.
Such events through their internal relations are «welded into an individual identity,» to borrow Peirce's language.
Murray Murphey finds Peirce's declaration that individual identity consists in a continuity of reactions to be inconsistent with «either the definition of reaction or of continuity — there can not be a continuum of instantaneous events.
With this cognition, reactions are welded into a continuity of reactions constituting an individual identity, and an individual is cognized as instantiating a real universal or law.
But through the concept of individual identity, I conceptualize the experience as an encounter with an individual existent.
Just as one has first the concept of line identity and then fixes points in order to determine properties of a particular line, one has first the concept of individual identity and then experiences a reaction that determines properties of a particular individual.
When I conceive of its individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions, I am conceiving of a portion of space continually reacting.14
Whatever Peirce meant by declaring individual identity to consist in a continuity of reactions, he did not mean that it consists in a collection of independent reactions.
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