His function is to foster and direct
the process of actualization carried on by his creatures, and to redress the inevitable loss involved by integrating all of its results into his living experience.
His is not the only kind of complex that is continually in
process of actualization.
If with Whitehead one conceives
the process of actualization to be a creative advance, then it makes sense that he posits «conceptual valuation» of the datum as the basic function of the «mental pole,» prior to «conceptual reversion» (PR 26/39, 248/379).
The creativity is the actualization of potentiality, and
the process of actualization is an occasion of experiencing.
The process of actualization must have some being to rescue from the indeterminacy of the future, but it can not yet have the complete being of the satisfaction without already being actual.
The claim is that, in order for
the process of actualization to be possible at all, «antecedent limitations» must be applied to the multiplicity of possibilities, and these are carried out in the «conceptual envisagement» of the total multiplicity of eternal objects, or ideal forms, by God.
But power may be defined more broadly as the capacity to influence the outcome of
any process of actualization, thereby permitting both persuasive and coercive power.
Whitehead suggests that God experiences the past actual world confronting each individual occasion in
process of actualization, and selects for it that ideal possibility which would achieve the maximum good compatible with its situation.
Because of this divergent
process of actualization — the material past is dead, the mental past is alive — a distinction must be made between cosmology or pseudo-history and history proper (i.e., the study of human thought).
Whitehead's teleology is then descriptive of the event's
process of actualization; it says nothing about the event as striving to give rise to a specific character determined beforehand by its essential nature (PW 188/207), nor is it in conflict with physical determinism (PW 206/226).
Yet the future may also be described by combining (M, M) and (M, P) as the direction taken by
a process of actualization of previously unactualized possibilities.
The Whiteheadian actual occasion is conceived along similar lines, but instead of being a substance persisting through time in apparent relation with other substances, the occasion is
a process of actualization of a set of real relations.
Antecedent phases of concrescence are not additional causal influences the occasion must integrate, but the means whereby the causa sui expresses itself in
this process of actualization.
It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or
those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.
Not exact matches
Yet that metaphor
of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty
of primary natural units, each
of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a
process of mutual
actualization and eventual replacement.
An object is a
process of momentary
actualization.
Microgenesis refers to the
actualization (Aktualgenese)
of a cognition over «layers» in mind and brain that retrace growth patterns in phyloontogeny.1 The recapitulation that is the cornerstone
of historical theory is a repetition
of the antecedents
of a behavior that phyletic or ontogenetic
process lays down.
A
process God who is associated with the total self -
actualization of all individuals would be limited, benevolent and powerful.
Concrescence, in
processes of finite
actualization, consists in the progressive reduction
of these alternatives to one form, which is actualized by the matter derived from the past.
The last is challenge that can be met and mastered in an on - going
process of self -
actualization.
The death
of God in Christ is an inevitable consequence
of the movement
of God into the world,
of Spirit into flesh, and the
actualization of the death
of God in the totality
of experience is a decisive sign
of the continuing and forward movement
of the divine
process, as it continues to negate its particular and given expressions, by moving ever more fully into the depths
of the profane.
Indeed, if we may understand prehensions as signals, and the ingression
of prehensions as the initial phase in a selective
process of self -
actualization, then an actual occasion consists purely
of information.
Where our concern is with the concrete
actualization of these qualities in relation to the world
process, our attention is directed to the sense in which God's perfection is relative to each stage
of process, for God continually surpasses previous states
of his being, as new developments in the world become a part
of his concrete actuality.9
The
actualization of the expression may be shorter or longer in its
process of becoming.
The requirement in a
process metaphysics that freedom inhere, to one degree or another, in every subject whatsoever is the route to establishing responsibility for one's
actualization of sin.
If the views
of these theologians are correct, then the good accomplished in redemption lies in a different dimension from the goad realized by human effort, and we can not sustain the thesis that the work
of redemption involves as an integral aspect a
process in this world, and the
actualization of love in this life.
A key element in the
process of reality is incarnation, the embodiment
of the transcendent in the world, the
actualization of spontaneous love.
Every decision is a response to a lure or solicitation; that is how God effectively «acts» in a creative
process from which he is nowhere absent, by permitting things to «make themselves» as decisions are undertaken that «decide» the degree and kind
of actualization that will occur.
Process thought typically roots the presence
of sin and evil in the world in the refusal or deficient
actualization of the divine aim offered to every self - realizing occasion.
Yet Whitehead held, and I concur, that the
actualization of the unity
of all ideals is impossible: «Tennyson's phrase, «one far - off divine event, To which all creation moves,» presents a fallacious conception
of the universe» (
Process 111).
So at the end
of this analysis we are faced with the paradox that the
actualization of the cause
of the
process goes on in the object
of the
process, indeed has to be thought identical with it (202a1 3 - 21).
He conceives such a
process as the
actualization of a state
of potentiality in the object
of the
process, an
actualization that comes about through the influence
of the cause
of the
process (201a10; 202a14).
Aristotle lays out the difficulties that the ordinary understanding places in the way
of his conception: the
actualization of the cause
of the
process seems to be distinct from that
of the object
of the
process, for the one is an effecting, the other a being effected.
In that way prehension comprises that highest form
of natural
process ascribed by Aristotle to living beings and which Scholasticism conceived as motus sui, as
actualization of itself through itself.15 Whitehead matches Aristotle in so many main points not least because both are mainly concerned with living beings and their self - development.
In Whitehead's view this
process can mean the
actualization of new and higher forms that were not yet «there» in the development
of the world.
Whitehead, like Aristotle, takes
process to be the
actualization of one thing in another.
And now Aristotle explicitly declares that it is by no means absurd to situate the
actualization of the cause
of the
process in the object
of the
process, to suppose that the
actualization of the one is the
actualization in the other (202b5).
What Whitehead conceives as the objectification [242]
of an actual entity appears in the Aristotelian conception
of process as anticipated in the
actualization of one being in another.
We can also say that with these initial conditions the subject
of the
process comes forth as a potential subject, insofar as its complete
actualization has not yet occurred.
The way I teach potty training, we learn our children, teach our children, and help them wrap up the
process - giving them the gift
of self -
actualization and their dignity back - and we, the parents, initiate this training when WE are ready (not the child).
And thank goodness, as we begin the healing
process, there is one man that we can all hold aloft as an exemplar
of self -
actualization.
Then again, that all
of this human misery, all these murmured conversations and all
of these women trooping in and out
of his life would be summoned solely to assist in one successful midlife white male's self -
actualization process, is just one
of those Things, I guess.
EDL 5303 «Human Relations in Educational Administration,» which prepares students in their supportive role in the supervision
of professionals in education to comprehend how positive interpersonal relationships contribute to the
process of potentiality,
actualization and efficacy development;
Among some
of the themes explored are cultural vs. personal identity, self -
actualization as the quintessential American Dream, development
of individuality vs. sacrifice for family and future generations, and the creative
process in a foreign language... as well as the perils
of success found by sticking to the familiar.
Of course, we have already talked about actualization in my works, and the shape of numbers or their signifying characteristics must be subjected to the same processes of alternation and bastardizatio
Of course, we have already talked about
actualization in my works, and the shape
of numbers or their signifying characteristics must be subjected to the same processes of alternation and bastardizatio
of numbers or their signifying characteristics must be subjected to the same
processes of alternation and bastardizatio
of alternation and bastardization.
That's because the «main theme»
of each painting — let's assume there is such a thing — is laid out according to different, personal
processes of visual
actualization.
Healing is a connective
process that requires the engagement
of present - thinking, higher power vision, invincible courage, and fearless vulnerability; skills she has developed over the decades for self -
actualization and personal growth.
I get it, I am fine as long as I took an idea instead
of actualization of an idea, and I think that is the case here, since I took idea
of conceptualizing human's cognitive
processes (work A) and social behavior (work B); where I changed the definition
of the terms (work C) and also the terms itself (work D).
Areas
of Clinical Interest: Existential struggles, relationship issues, career coaching, phase
of life challenges, faith - based / spirituality challenges, depression, anxiety, couples therapy, and
processes toward self -
actualization.
Through the
process of effective psychotherapy people often move beyond the removal
of problems or symptoms towards acceptance and awareness
of self, and further towards
actualization of personal potential.»