The Norito, literally «words spoken to the kami,» or divinity, are largely ritualistic prayers containing stanzas of praise and thanksgiving to the gods, and special petitions suited to
the particular occasion for which they are being employed.
Needless to say that you do care for your puppy and you share your own huge and cozy bed with him but there could be times in the coming years when your puppy would grow up to be a big dog and would still love to sleep with you in bed but it would be real hard to break that habit if in case you need the bed at
any particular occasion all for yourself.
Not exact matches
Afterwards, I will review the broader significance of this new understanding of actual
occasions and societies
for the mind - body problem, paying
particular attention to articles published over the years by Whiteheadians on this very topic.
In the Whiteheadian interpretation of reality, these initial aims proposed by God are not capricious nor due to inscrutable divine purposes
for his creatures, but are relevant aims toward maximizing the intensity of experience which is possible from the
particular perspective of each concrescing
occasion.
As with the apple - tart, then, God's love
for this
particular occasion is really his love
for this sort of
occasion inasmuch as the
occasion instantiates one of the abstract patterns valuated in the primordial nature.
In any case, in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment
for the ongoing emergence of actual
occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in
particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of control.
Any subsequent
occasion would therefore assimilate it in a great variety of intermediate forms, and would have to recombine them to establish its own
particular feeling
for that contrast.
It is better to say merely that a potential datum is not in the end objectifiable in this
particular occasion, given its final determinate character; the reason
for this is the decision to eliminate.
The initial aim is
for the richest unification of the world possible from the
particular perspective of that emerging
occasion.
which is his «
particular providence
for particular occasions» (PR 532); the» «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (PR 135).
With this general understanding of God's participation in becoming, it should be possible to make some statements of less than metaphysical generality which have to do with God's aims
for particular sorts of
occasions.
A concern
for compassion and justice
for the victims, however, does not excuse a lack of faithfulness to the truth, and frequently the
occasion of sexual abuse by Catholics has itself been abused in the service of dishonest propaganda against the Catholic Church, and our Priests in
particular.
It is rather a matrix
for those orderings effected by
particular actual
occasions m the course of nature.
Various promissory notes are given (PR 32 / 47), such as the sole explicit discussion of «the «superjective» nature of God» (PR 88 / 135; but see PS 3:228 f), and the famous «fourth phase» of the last two pages of Process and Reality, which proposes a «
particular providence
for particular occasions.»
So, when God has fully prehended the past actual world
for a
particular standpoint, and unified it in all the alternative ways it can be unified, she bequeaths that prehensive activity to the nascent
occasion, which alone can effect its determinate actualization.
It is
for that reason that an old sermon or a sermon read from a book
for an entirely different
occasion is a
particular offense to the oral culture.
What is really possible
for a given actual world, however, is that range of forms capable of unifying that
particular multiplicity of past actual
occasions.
For instance, the notion of the ideal aim entails that God «limits» the possibilities which are relevant to a
particular occasion.
The various
particular occasions of the past are in existence, and are severally functioning as objects
for prehension....
The teaching of Jesus is epitomized in the Sermon on the Mount, although it is found throughout the Gospels in his parables and in sayings upon
particular occasions which, in their main outlines, have been preserved
for us.
They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature of conscious centers competing
for control of the organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly by the members of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these
particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.
One sentence links God's provision of aim with Whitehead's reconception of God as the nontemporal concrescence of eternal objects: the creativity
for the nascent
occasion «is conditioned by the relevance of God's all - embracing conceptual valuations to the
particular possibilities of transmission from the actual world» (PR 244G).
These statements give something of the flavor of this early theory: «the first stage of the process of feeling is the reception into the responsive conformity of feeling whereby the datum, which is mere potentiality, becomes the individualized basis
for a complex unity of realization» (PR 113C).3 Or, later, «The objectified
particular occasions together have the unity of a datum
for the creative concrescence» (PR 210C).
The hybrid physical feeling of God, which is (on the traditional Whiteheadian account) the subjective aim
for any
particular occasion of the young woman s experience, is also a prehension of the past from which she inherits — it is, after all, a physical feeling.
Thus, God's grading of the eternal objects solely in terms of their relevance
for one another provides general potentiality, while relevance
for particular occasions constitutes real potentiality.
The distinction arises because in some instances a group of
occasions, such as,
for example, a
particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.
But God, from among the countless number of possibilities, as it were selects one which is then a «given»
for an event or
particular occasion; this is what Whitehead would call an «initial aim» which the
occasion may then adopt
for its own and towards the actualizing of which, in concrete fashion, it may work.
In that picture, the clothes - line is the real self, the genuine identity of the I», and the various articles hung on the line
for drying are the
particular moments or
occasions of human experience.
It should be noted that the call to «carry the cross» is addressed to those who volunteered
for service on a
particular occasion.
«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding
occasions,
for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of
particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).
He discusses language, style and arrangement of the Qur» an, as well as differences between the early (Meccan) and later (Medinan) revelations and the importance of the «
occasions of revelation»
for understanding
particular passages.
Then the first phase does the work of the third phase: «The
particular providence
for particular occasions» (PR 351) is achieved nontemporally, apart from any experience of the actual world.
Cobb also points out that «
particular providence
for particular occasions» (PR 351) leads not only to theoretical problems
for theodicy, but to practical problems in the church, «because
particular providence has often been appealed to as justification
for many actions on the part of believers that are disruptive of the healthy life of the church» (TIP 14).
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 351) Whitehead says this is God's love
for the world expressed in «the
particular providence
for particular occasions.»
Consequently, just as an actual
occasion in the immediate past influences a newly concrescing
occasion through its aim at fulfillment
for it, God likewise influences individual persons through the
particular propositions or aims at fulfillment which he entertains
for them in each moment of experience (PPCT 386f.).
What I should claim, however, is that in a manner appropriate to the
particular level and in a fashion suitable
for the
particular occasion, however «large» or «small», there is such «decision» as entails a «cutting off» of this or that possibility
for actualization and an «acceptance» of this or that other possibility.
For those societies, on the other hand, that make up the higher forms of life, and in particular for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the occasio
For those societies, on the other hand, that make up the higher forms of life, and in
particular for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the occasio
for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the
occasions.
When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way,
for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a
particular «routing» of
occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.
In consequence we have a description of the world that allows room
for decisions made by
particular «
occasions» or moments — and these decisions, whether at the conscious level in man or at lower or nonconscious levels elsewhere, make a difference.
God is only partially transcended by actual
occasions,
for they can only prehend those aims of God relevant to their
particular world, leaving untouched those infinite reservoirs of possibility which are not yet (or no longer) relevant to the creative advance.
As we shall see, however, Spirit can fulfill the role assigned to this fourth phase of being «the
particular providence
for particular occasions» (PR, p. 532).
For the process view ultimate reality lies precisely in the world of the particular — the myriads of actual occasions that have ontological status in and for themselv
For the process view ultimate reality lies precisely in the world of the
particular — the myriads of actual
occasions that have ontological status in and
for themselv
for themselves.
The primordial nature is the source of all those possible ideals which can serve as the initial aims of
occasions, while God's consequent experience of the actual world forms the basis whereby God can specify which aims are relevant
for which
occasions, thereby serving as «the
particular providence
for particular occasions.
(2) A does enter into B as constituting a conceptual relationship between B and each
particular occasion X, whereby the patience of X
for its physical relationship to B is objectified
for B.
It is true, as Hall points out, that
for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within
particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between
occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.
Perception in the mode of presentational immediacy defines
for a
particular actual
occasion one of the multiple durations associated with it, and this is its «presented» duration (PR 191f, 488 - 90).5 The actual
occasions that might be said to actualize the presented duration are not perceived; however, the extensive relations within the presented duration are perceived (PR 95 - 97, 188).
For example, I am not proposing subdividing the
occasion into a series of sub-events called genetic phases, each of which comes into being all at once with a
particular temporal thickness.
[The earlier passage is here inserted:] «The essential principle is this: That human psycho - physical activity must exceed a certain intensity
for any waking consciousness at all to occur, and that during the waking state any
particular specification of the said activity (whether spontaneous or due to stimulation), which is capable of
occasioning a
particular specification of consciousness, must exceed in its turn a certain further degree of intensity
for the consciousness actually to arise...
For theology (I would say) is founded in
occasions of insight and disclosure when, to put it at its most general, the universe declares itself in a
particular way around some group of events which thus take on a cosmic significance.
I've been to Jerusalem four times, most recently in November 2015, and on each
occasion I've visited the Western Wall and prayed there:
for the «peace of Jerusalem» of which Psalm 122 speaks;
for Jewish friends throughout the world;
for my own family and friends, especially those in
particular need.