Sentences with phrase «own microcosmic»

A: In some ways, Cyprus is a microcosmic caricature.

(Acts 7:28) And what is true of us human beings is true of all that is; the macrocosmic and microcosmic, the galaxies beyond numbering and the subatomic particles beyond discernment.

All of reality is theonomous, and we do not really know the most important truth about anything, whether macrocosmic or microcosmic, until we know it, so to speak, in God.

This is resolved by the discovery of two kinds of fluency, macrocosmic (transition) and microcosmic (concrescence).

John Cobb, Jr. and Charles Hartshorne, for instance, hold that the only actual entities are microcosmic actual occasions.

While both men sought to implement a dynamic view of experience, Whitehead chose to focus on the microcosmic level which resulted in his philosophy of organism, whereas Sullivan devoted his efforts to the particular realm of human existence which yielded his interpersonal theory of psychiatry.

Pastors must begin to do liberation theology on a microcosmic scale — within the local church.

And sometimes ethnic divisions even became microcosmic, with different factions sharing everything about their culture except the particular village of origin back home.

This glance is reductive because it wishes to reduce the manifold person, nourished by the microcosmic fullness of possibility, to a schematically surveyable and generally repetitive structure.

Sensing many of the same difficulties Neville has raised against my temporalistic interpretation of genetic successiveness, John Cobb has proposed this constructive alternative: In addition to temporal successiveness, Whitehead conceives of another order of successiveness, which he calls genetic or microcosmic.

Microcosmic.

An actual occasion is microcosmic; the durational entities of everyday experience and of history are composed of such microevents.

As we have seen, increased complexity yields less extension (e.g., the number of pieces analyzable with the aid of common tonal practice is limited) but increased information in a microcosmic setting.

If the congregation views itself as merely the repository of meanings better expressed elsewhere, it fails to appreciate its genius, its microcosmic capacity to reflect in uniquely lived form the sociality of humankind.

A process - relational philosophy suggests that the interconnectedness that we experience at a macro-cosmic level is also operative at a microcosmic level, and in fact accounts for the dynamism of existence itself.

The hyperindividualism in gestalt therapy seems to be particularly offset by Perls» view that a group is a microcosmic world in which people can expand their awareness and try out new behavior.

What is true of our analysis of the macrocosmic process is also true at the microcosmic or individual level.

Disclosures can occur which do not arise around personal or moral behavior but around cosmic events or microcosmic phenomena.

7 To see this unambiguously one must look over the whole range of events from microcosmic to macrocosmic, and one must choose the same type of event at every level.

So what is first required is a distinction, right on the level of the «life world,» between genuine entities and «things,» rather than a reversion to microcosmic event - units.

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 rigid adherence to microcosmic ultimate event - units as the sole actual entities seems to us to be not only inadequate with respect to the [254] higher forms of unity, but also to introduce an inconsistency in Whitehead's thinking.

Hanging on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the higher totalities could only be conceived as «societies» of such «entities.»

Do we not find lying at the center of Whitehead's vision a nondualistic apprehension of the union or coinherence of the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, of the outer and the inner, of the beyond and the near at hand which has no genuine precedent in the Western historical tradition?

The local church can only be a microcosmic manifestation of the pre-existing reality of that unity... a living example... a visible picture of what it looks like and means to be One.

The fact that we begin theorizing as self - conscious persons does not, to be sure, entail the conclusion that the person is the microcosmic model for the macrocosm.

In this respect our humanness is a microcosmic expression of the macroscopic or divine reality of Love - in - action.

In addition to temporal successiveness, Whitehead conceives of another order of successiveness, which he calls genetic or microcosmic.

This line of reasoning, I think, is plausible; the inadequacy of language to give a logically neat account of the microcosmic process is perhaps what we should expect since our language is in a sense tied to, and thus derivative from, an experience of the macrocosmic process.

But the inability of models derived from our experience of objects like pens to deal with the microcosmic world is precisely the cause of the collapse of the old world views.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

On Whitehead's view, the human body is a macrocosmic nexus of microcosmic actual identities, but — and this is the crucial point over against the mechanist view — these actual entities are interdependent rather than independent.

Whitehead's model explicitly illustrates this insight and its applicability to communications theory at both levels of analysis, although the microcosmic aspects are frequently undifferentiated, in Deutsch, from the macrocosmic ones.

Johnson, for example, avoids any effective differentiation between the microcosmic and macrocosmic levels of Whitehead's analysis, assuming that they are mere duplications of one another.

As the Wiener quotations suggests, this process of communication has relevance at both the macrocosmic level («societies») and the microcosmic level («actual entities»).

The return phase of the subjective aim, wherein the microcosmic and therefore macrocosmic harmonies are unified with the divine harmony, demonstrates the relevance of the primordial satisfaction for the world.

God's superjective aim requires that a twofold harmony of interrelatedness must develop: first, the microcosmic harmony of each occasion, in which the occasions are enabled to incorporate as many elements in harmonious togetherness as possible, and second, the macrocosmic togetherness of the individual occasions, so that the individually attained harmonies might be interwoven in each new becoming.

Bunni says people are drawn to their chocolate not because it's healthy but because it's «microcosmic.»

I think that's quite microcosmic of a good society.»

One of the difficulties in writing this piece is microcosmic of the larger, more fundamental problem: how do I differentiate between the two Milibands?

But one has also to consider such microcosmic problems as poisonous snakes, being alone in the forest on slippery paths, or the occurrence of landslides next to the station.

«In this experiment, the polarization gives scientists a unique way to understand hard - to - catch details of how the «color» charges of quarks and gluons affect their microcosmic interactions,» explained Brookhaven physicist Elke Aschenauer, a member of the scientific collaboration using RHIC's STAR detector to analyze the subatomic smashups.

To convert from physical ejaculation orgasms to energy orgasms, you want to pull the energy from the genitals through the whole body by doing the microcosmic orbit: You do this by inhaling and visualizing pulling the orgasmic energy up the front of your body.

Your moon cycles are the microcosmic expression of your fertility cycles.

The tantrics saw themselves as microcosmic reflections of the universe and understood the chakras as the controlling points of the various factors (solid, liquid, luminous, aerial and etherial) that the Cosmic Mind uses to create everything in the universe.

For the tantrics, the chakra system is the microcosmic fractal of the cosmic elements (mahatattvas) within each of us.

Try refraining from masturbation for a couple of months whilst regularly doing the microcosmic orbit, and then tell me you have trouble talking to the cute girl at Starbucks.

Finish the session without ejaculating (and with a much more satisfied partner) and then do ten minutes of the microcosmic orbit and tell me you are not ready to conquer the world.

In a precise definition, these marriages design a microcosmic globe amidst the complete planet.

Of course, the movie, which unfolds almost entirely within its fictional campus setting, is contrived in ways to support its microcosmic, pseudo-satirical vibe.