Sentences with phrase «pre-second-wave essentialism»

Greg McKeown's book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a wonderful deep dive into the art of saying no by pursuing less.

New York Times bestselling author Greg McKeown shares tips from Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less.

Greg McKeown Author of the New York Times bestseller Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

As Pius XII brings out St Thomas» philosophical synthesis does go significantly beyond such essentialism balancing it with a much needed existentialist emphasis upon «dynamic», even relational, being.

«Thomistic essentialism» - that old chestnut - as opposed to a «dynamic» vision of life, the universe and everything.

This trend from essentialism to existentialism does not of itself conflict with Christianity.

Their existence is obscured by essentialism because the radical uniqueness of existence is not recognized.

... (The) trend from essentialism to existentialism does not of itself conflict with Christianity.

While both philosophies embrace this qualified essentialism, it is Whitehead that provides the necessary corrective on the problem of relations.

It can't be an accident that the most aggressive debunkers of Jewish essentialism, including the participants in this story, are generally Jews themselves.»

Forms don't exist in the Mind of God from all eternity; having denounced Aristotle's essentialism, I fell into it myself, albeit inadvertently.

As to the former, orientation essentialism has made ethical philosophy in this realm all but impossible: It has displaced the old marital - procreative principles of chastity without offering any alternative that is not entirely arbitrary.

First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct.

Johnson concludes that «there is probably a complex «biology of sexual orientation,» but there are alos developmental and psychological processes in earl childhood, as well as culturally bound determinants throughout life, that contribute to the way each individual experiences sexual orientation... Therefore, the question of «essentialism versus constructivism» (basically, nature vs. nurture) presents us with a false dichotomy.

What's wrong with substantialism, essentialism and / or separatism other than that they are «inadequate and counterproductive for process - relational thought» (94)?

Aside from the fact that, as I have just argued, Hauerwas is decidedly not interested in separation for separation's sake, this charge leaves me puzzling about just what «essentialism» could mean for Muray.

Medieval Latin / Western theology, formulated in the static philosophical categories of Plato and Aristotle (Greek Essentialism), rather than the dynamic philosophical categories of Heraclitus, often failed to adequately express the complexity of God's relationship with his people and the transformational affects of an immanent, usually mediated, Divine Presence had on them.

Later, God the Father takes on the form of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.

For one thing, Whitehead's conception of selfhood is highly critical of the pronounced individualism and essentialism of modern Western religion.

Tools of Titans, The One Thing, and Essentialism are all books that deeply influenced my routines and my general philosophy on life.

Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP, Global Packaging director for the Mintel Group, cited essentialism: «That's giving consumers enough on - pack information to make an informed, enlightened purchasing decision while not overwhelming their shopping experience.»

Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.

I really hate to stumble into some kind of biological essentialism, because I know not all moms feel that way - even if they had a choice, which many don't, some don't feel that intensely attached to their small babies.

Are the ongoing attempts to moralize parenting choices and to promote biological essentialism just a new way to keep women confined to the home?

Get your head out of your navel, look around, maybe get a job, a hobby, something that has nothing to do with biological essentialism and sending women back to the stone age.

Ellie Knaus, host of Atomic Moms Podcast — book recommendation: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Biological essentialism again.

I actually found the book «Mindful Birthing» more helpful because instead of being cheesy and full of biological essentialism, it was more exercises for relaxation and focusing (which would be helpful in a lot of situations, not just childbirth).

As to the «politics of identity» owned or developed as some sort of USP, that would be disastrous, a retreat into essentialism.

However, this outcome does not occur often enough because in order to assimilate mythology in this way, students should also be cautioned against the false but pervasive view of essentialism.

However, I think Powell's essentialism is a good part of the reason why much of the right was actually rather weak on integration (as opposed to restricting immigration) as important to race relations across the 1960s and 1970s.

Essentialism of this sort erroneously ascribes homogeneity to what in reality are divergent groups with different interests.

The book «Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less» by Greg McKeown explains the concept of spreading yourself thin by undertaking too much.

In short, I would recommend reading the Essentialism book:).

The first is designed to make people question their own prejudices by explaining the psychological concept of essentialism.

Essentialism is the tendency we have, as we move through and classify a complex world, to reduce others to a single descriptor («woman,» «black,» «immigrant»), thus making it easier to navigate that world.

The Australian public ethics professor Clive Hamilton has proposed another line of defense named «strategic essentialism» — stating that the science is indisputable for strategic reasons.

Darwin's destruction of the philosophical stance known as essentialism led science to reject racism.

A triangle illustrates essentialism: all triangles have the same fundamental characteristics and are sharply delimited against quadrangles or any other geometric figures.

Although the ignorant misapplication of evolutionary theory known as «Social Darwinism» often gets blamed for justifications of racism, adherence to the disproved essentialism preceding Darwin in fact can lead to the racist viewpoint.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

This view point is called typology, or essentialism.

An overestimate of the predictive value of genetic information emanates from genetic essentialism, the belief that genes are wholly predictive of diseases, behaviors, or traits [93].

Greg McKeown, founder of essentialism, best - selling author, and inspirational speaker, is all too familiar with the way most of us live.

So we've covered Essentialism 101 but class isn't over yet.

At its core Essentialism boils down to three main facets.

You've decided what your trade - offs will be, which, brings us to the final and most important part of the essentialism triad: Focus.

After establishing your goal, and figuring out the trade - offs, the last and most important aspect of essentialism is focus: unrelenting, laser - like concentration on that one goal until you've seen it to fruition.

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Last month I read Greg Mckeown's book Essentialism, which had me thinking a lot about my priorities and the things that are essential in my life.