Sentences with phrase «own subjective truth»

If you believe in subjective truth why does it bother you so much?

The collapse of confidence in objective Truth and its substitution with subjective truth has resulted in an epistemological collapse.

So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the subjective truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only by virtue of the absurdity of its objective meaning or ground.

While I do think there are certain «subjective truths» (depending on how we define truth, of course), I do not think that all truth is subjective.

In this sphere, which embraces everything else and can not itself be again integrated into a higher order, truth can less than elsewhere be that merely subjective truth of a solipsistic individualism.

I think you've got to have a combination of objective and subjective truth.

The followers of Jesus Christ must manifest a confidence that the truth that sets us free is everyone's truth, and not just a subjective truth peculiar to our own community.

Different confessional groups may agree to disagree for the present, but the followers of Jesus Christ must manifest a confidence that the truth that sets us free is everyone's truth, and not just a subjective truth peculiar to our own community.

In an impassioned poem, Timothy DuWhite, emphasizing that everyone defines their own subjective truth, told his tale of being infected by an ex-lover, whom he still loves, and his struggle to come to terms with the reality of his serostatus while completing college.

Evan himself is such a conundrum — a man who is either so involved in his line of work that he can't accept reality as it is or so devoted to subjective truth that he has become a master of deception — that he's inherently fascinating.

Outcasts presents three photographs from the Somnyama Ngonyama series, meaning «Hail, the Dark Lioness,» a deeply personal portrayal that captures an introspective look into Muholi's subjective truths and strong community bonds.

Whether dealing with inherently human issues, digital simulacra or pop culture landscapes (and in response to the ubiquity of well crafted fiction in video art) these videos are all concerned with presenting individual and subjective truths, maintaining the viewer as the final interpreter of the discourses they set in motion.

Six Thai artists reflect on the current state of Thailand in «Subjective Truth», an exhibition curated by Iola Lenzi at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong and coinciding with the first edition of Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.

But when we include items that are based on subjective truth, such as believing we are only attracted to men who are six feet tall or have dark features, our list of deal breakers can get in the way of finding a partner.

Not exact matches

And the subjective feelings of the study participants seemed to reflect this truth.

Any distortion of the relation between subjective sympathy and moral truth is excluded.

The journey for truth is a subjective one — and one that both «Christians» and «Atheists» share, though they may travel very different paths.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

If «derived time» follows from something more primordial (for Whitehead, creative advance as constituted in the subjective immediacy of concrescing actual entities; for Heidegger, the truth of Being as disclosed in the «openness» which pervades Dasein on the basis of its ecstatic - horizontal temporality), that something must not itself be time - like, or talk of «derivation» is otiose.

That not everyone recognizes this absolute for what it is changes nothing; psychologically speaking, a «subjective absolute» fulfills exactly the same function as absolute truth does for those who believe in a revealed religion.»

Up to this point we have established the fact that inherent in the deliberations of reason is the subjective and predictive factor, that reason is hypothesis - making, that, in short, it makes acts of belief, and that in order to attain truth, belief as hypothesis - making is not only reasonable but necessary.

He brings out the subjective reception of objective, ontological, truth and love in all our knowing (see n. 34), directly denied by materialistic philosophy of science.

In the project of self - creation throughout his life, man must strive to bring these values into aesthetic harmony aiming at intensity of feeling both in its subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself to achieve objective immortality.63 And man realizes that to achieve his individual destiny he must create civilizations which embody truth and beauty.

By nature, truth can not be merely subjective, Pannenberg asserts.

And I would also like to point out that the idea of rights is subjective too according to your arguments, there is no such thing as truth and everyone should just live life the way they want too.

After a sketch of the standoff between views of theology as something «objective» and views of it as something «subjective,» Wood concurs with Farley's reasons for rejecting the picture of theology as universally valid «objective» truths and factual knowledge.2 He also rejects another type of «objective» view of theology, represented by Hough and Cobb, which defines theology by reference to the purposes of professional church leadership (93).

In fact, in spite of his insisting that most actual occasions are unconscious (and that there is much that is unconscious even in that series of actual occasions which constitute our successive mental states), his talk of their experience or feeling of themselves, the influence of their predecessors, and their subjective immediacy seems pointless unless each of them is supposed to feel its own being, in some genuine sense, however dimly, so that there is a truth as to what - it - is - like - being - it.

The resurrection of Jesus is objective truth and reality not subjective.

Man's response to God thus becomes subjective «apprehension» of an objective truth, and the objectified law becomes more important than the relation with God itself.

Truth is too subjective to be an absolute.

Whereas, there are many subjective perceptions of reality, there is only one objective reality and one absolute truth.

(a) Hartshorne's objection to my position on truth would be that I assume that there are truths about the past and that truth is real now as involving a relation of correspondence with an object, the past; however, the past on my view is not real now, is not preserved in its full subjective immediacy in the consequent nature of God.

This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm, subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.

If «derived time» follows from something more primordial (for Whitehead, creative advance as constituted in the subjective immediacy of concrescing actual entities; for Heidegger, the truth of Being as disclosed in the «openness» which pervades Dasein on the basis of its ecstatic - horizontal temporality), that something must not itself be time - like, or talk of «derivation» is...

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

When it boils down to spiritual beliefs and spiritual truths, are they not most importantly subjective in nature, Mark?

I know some will say that I perceive the ball to be truth, but that too can be entirely subjective, amounting to falsehood.

His idea of a «new synthesis», proposed mainly in his book Catholicism: A New Synthesis and developed in his many theological and philosophical essays, was an attempt to grapple precisely with the issues we have spoken of: the post-Cartesian «turn to the subject» (that is: the loss of faith in the objectivity of knowledge and the subsequent exclusive concern of philosophy with the self and the subjective idea as the norm of «truth») and the philosophy of evolution with its implications for a dynamic rather than a static universe.

The fact is «Truth» is inherently subjective.

Josiah Royce with a quite different philosophical orientation from Ritschl expressed the same truth when he described the Church as the community which is sustained by its memory of the atoning deed of Jesus.21 What is supremely important here is that knowledge of God's forgiveness does not depend upon a private and subjective illumination of the individual believer alone.

I agree with you that it enshrines the important truth of the trans - subjective reality of evil.

12 It is not a matter of saying truth is subjective but it is a matter of asking whether there is truth inseparable from its appropriation.

What we have to ask is whether the New Testament narratives are affected by mythology less in their objective aspect than in our subjective way of apprehending and describing religious truth.

Both claim to be in a possession of the Truth they can not possess, arguing their subjective, arrogant, conceptual point of view (opinion), based on their extremely limited and bias perception of Reality.

Feigning a discussion about objective vs. subjective morality without qualifying values in the example in an attempt to get the casual reader to focus on the value the crafty writer wants you to adopt a an absolute truth — in this case how bad it would be to BBQ your grandmother, so that he can claim the the reader believes in objective «truths».

«Relativism» in this context means that all principles are seen as provisional and questionable, because «truth» is entirely subjective and negotiable.

As earlier with regard to poetic discourse on the objective side of the idea of revelation, so too on the subjective side, the experience of testimony can only provide the horizon for a specifically religious and biblical experience of revelation, without our ever being able to derive that experience from the purely philosophical categories of truth as manifestation and reflection as testimony.

Others believed their truth (no capital T) was subjective and personal, something they developed over time, something neither final nor totally accurate, though they believed it was based on the best available evidence.

This is «a proposition seeking truth» (PR 342) in the final satisfaction, where the subjective ideal no longer expresses a possibility sought but a goal attained in the specific nature of this concrete unity.

The refusal to be enjoined by the truth permits the admission into «importance» of an «emotional pattern» which, because it is not derived, or derivable, from the world of «physical purposes,» comes entirely from the «subjective aim.»