Sentences with phrase «partial view of reality»

There is a tendency for the specialist in any field to reduce all reality to the dimensions of his own field, and to elevate a partial view of reality into a total philosophy of life.

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Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

Whitehead's view that reality is composed of many creative entities, each of which involves in differing degrees the freedom to prehend in its (partial) self - creation, illuminates the problem of evil.

Somewhere between these partial views of the author and publishing business lies the reality: but it is not any longer a model fixed in aspic, which is perhaps why so many look to the recent past to explain it, or choose to invent a future that has not yet arrived.

Jeanette Winterson once argued that our experience of art «suggests that the monolith of corporate culture is only a partial reality», an idea that may seem especially pertinent when viewing works by Parsons such as Forms 1.