Sentences with phrase «platonic forms»

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Perhaps this search began in the mid-1980s, with Johns's cycle The Seasons (1985 — 86), in which picturing this venture of thought required a detour through picturing something like a self — hard to commit to it being Johns's self — through references to some of the artist's earlier image strategies (flags, devices) as well as icons of philosophical thinking such as the Platonic forms, Joseph Jastrow's duck - rabbit diagram (the latter made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein's inquiry into «seeing as» in the Philosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouette in shadow.

I look towards ruins and antiquity to contemplate and highlight the fall of empire, the fleeting nature of human folly, the futile striving towards platonic forms and the implicit mystery of antiquity.

Demonstrating the elegant stillness of a Giorgio Morandi painting, Shirreff's images are the result of extraordinarily extended exposure times, revealing assemblages of simple, almost Platonic forms and surfaces evocative of «sculpture,» bathed in light and shadows.

The climactic kaleidoscope — of cell division, mountain landscapes that bubble and simmer primordially in negative color, platonic forms — is the soup of life and birth, conjecture on what a living thing's first thought might be.

It seems to exhaust the theoretical options to say that such an answer must be achieved by reference to either: 1) the categories themselves; 2) the noncategorial aspects of events; 3) both categorial and non categorial aspects of events; 4) some alleged factor (e.g., a God, Platonic Forms, «nothing») other than the categorial aspects of events; or 5) by nothing (i.e., by no alleged factor at all, including «nothing»), so that the ultimate issue is meaningless or at least unanswerable in principle.

All these instances of form fall under the «objective» species of eternal objects — the mathematical «Platonic forms» — or the «subjective» species: «an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of a feeling.

«Object» in Whitehead's terminology is a property or characterization of events, but, as I said yesterday, I think there is enormous difficulty in splitting the events, as propertyless slices of the passage of nature, off from «objects» as thought these were like Platonic forms entering into it.

From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.

There is probably even an earlier anticipation in his account of the «multiplicity of Platonic forms» which is «given» for a particular actual entity: «This ordering of relevance starts from those forms which are, in the fullest sense, exemplified, and passes through grades of relevance down to those forms which in some faint sense are proximately relevant by reason of contrast with actual fact» (PR 43fC).

Mays takes the statement that «The order of nature, prevalent in the cosmic epoch in question, exhibits itself as a morphological scheme involving eternal objects of the objective species» (PR 447f) and renders it: The order of nature is a morphological scheme of mathematical Platonic forms (PW 58/56).

Then a theological passage, «Eternal objects, as in God's primordial nature, constitute the Platonic world of ideas» (PR 73), is translated: God's primordial nature is an abstract structure of mathematical Platonic forms (PW 59/56).

The latter are not susceptible to cataloguing as mathematical Platonic forms; hence, despite Whitehead's explicit remarks that the Primordial Nature includes all eternal objects (PR 134; cf. 70), the Primordial Nature is identified with the eternal objects of the objective species.

Plato presented two orders of existence: that which is, i.e., being, which is unchanging and eternal and is «always real» (e.g., the Platonic forms), and that which becomes (génesis) «and is never real.»

Over the course of the next two hours, White will define his customer, invoking her (and it is always «her») as though she exists among the Platonic Forms.

But even if we grant that God is an abstraction or a Platonic form or something somehow superindividual, still this does not obviate our trichotomy of doctrines....

Platonic Form, Idea, Essence, Eternal Object; Potentiality and Givenness; Exclusiveness of the Given; Subject - Superject, Becoming and Being; Evaporation of Indetermination in Concrescence, Satisfaction Determinate and Exclusive; Concrescence Dipolar... (PR 57; emphasis mine)

It had no smell, but somehow it reminded me of dog feces, or perhaps merely the Platonic form of disgust.

They've been so many shooters placing you in the hands of... well... a space marine, that to finally have a game on the horizon aiming to be the very Platonic form of a space marine game might seem to herald an enormous facepalm.

Then again, I am not mentally equipped to debate the metaphysics of «lawyering» as Platonic form.

It's also very possible that the reason why we can't all agree on a definition of a smartwatch is because it doesn't exist yet in its most obvious, platonic form.

This new smartwatch, made by Google and LG, seems like it would be the platonic form of a fitness - focused smartwatch.

Not exact matches

When people think about a category like «dog» or «ant,» they often subconsciously believe that there is a well - defined boundary around the category, or that there is some eternal ideal form (for philosophers, the Platonic idea) which defines the category.

Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.

And so the properly Platonic problem has now to be [226] taken up — the question, that is, of how the relation of form and entity is to be conceived.

In general, any God (as creative will) must confront within the total unity of his consciousness a twofold Given, consisting of Form (logic, mathematics, Platonic ideas) and Matter (brute fact content, a «receptacle»).

The latter understanding is more akin to Mays's own position and his interpretation of Whitehead as an empiricist, pure and simple (PW 74/75), than to the Platonic quasi-world of forms which actual occasions mirror via ingression.

Whitehead so emphatically repudiates the Platonic tendency to think of the realm of forms as constituting a superior, self - sufficient type of existence, that he interprets even the propositions of mathematics as statements about certain possible forms of process.

Eternal objects form a realm — a Platonic realm?

In thinking about pure being, therefore, we are not thinking about existing objects or things, we are thinking about what, in Platonic language, are called forms, or ideas, or in modern terminology concepts» (TNMS 13).

For Whitehead value is not something which exists off in a Platonic heaven, off in a realm of form.

It could be argued that the Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul was simply a refined and highly sophisticated version of that belief in an after - life which had been widespread in the ancient world in one form or another, and which Israel had come almost completely to abandon because of her psychosomatic view of the unity of the human individual.

In Platonic thought, matter represented a limitation, an imperfect embodiment of ideal forms; the material world was to be escaped in contemplation of pure ideas.

At the level of theory, he believes that «this vast Platonic assumption, sometimes in its baptized, Christian form,» which affirms a single version of the good life for all, is internally incoherent.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

Lampert's is Nietzschean / Platonic — or in defense of innovative forms of enlightenment in the service of philosophy.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

Very often he is more Aristotelian than Platonic — the «forms are in the facts.»

If norms are something like eternal objects, not like actual entities, then their normativeness can bind the progress of the actual world without being transcendent individuals, Platonic realism does not entail that the Form of the Good is an individual being.

It appears in numerous Platonic dialogues in various forms, and receives an in - depth and penetrating analysis in Aristotle's On the Soul.

It seems best, therefore, to understand Paul's reference here (which is probably an early Christian hymn) in light of the Platonic philosophical idea of «forms.»

He's a fully formed leviathan, the Platonic idea of a No. 1 pitcher.

Through investing emotional energy and time with one another outside the marital relationship, the former platonic friendship can begin to form a strong emotional bond which hurts the intimacy of the spousal... MORE relationship.

A father and grandfather, Herst regularly engages with parents in the form of Platonic dialogue — a cooperative Q - & - A approach meant to stimulate critical thinking — to yield logic - based solutions for raising happy children.

Which brings me back to the Platonic solids, whose regularity of shape is a rigorous form of symmetry.

(Polytope is Coxeter's word for polyhedrons — forms like the Platonic solids — that exist in higher dimensions.)

Craigslist is a site that allows completely free adult dating in all forms, from strictly platonic friendships to casual hookups and even long - term relationships.

Amber encourages singles to go to the events and parties with an open mind and be receptive to forming all types of bonds with people, from platonic friendships to long - term relationships.

Bonding over their chronic infidelity, they form a platonic friendship to support each other in their quests for healthy romantic relationships.

«Sleeping With Other People» features Alison Brie, Natasha Lyonne and Adam Scott in the tale of a womanizer and a serial cheater who form a platonic relationship that helps him reform.