Sentences with phrase «pure ideas of»

These works functioned in terms of the painting medium and focused on pure ideas of form, composition, color, scale, and texture.

The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture wholly to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in this tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christian heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marveling at world - history.

Not exact matches

Free from any real responsibility, with more money than they know what to do with, the recent generations of Johnsons represent the idea of the wealthy family dynasty in its purest state: rich, bored and dangerously aimless.

Of the nearly 1,000 ideas on the list, there are several that turned out to be pure, diamond - studded platinum — at least for the other people who actually executed them.

Ashley: The idea to open a Pure Barre came to me the fall of my second year of business school.

This is a pure misapplication of the idea of contrary opinion.

There was not a Pure Barre in her hometown of Columbus, GA and it was her supportive husband who introduced the idea of owning her own studio.

The work was pure brilliance and it wasn't long before the die - hard cryptographers of the world were all on - board with Satoshi's idea.

it wouldnt surprise me if the idea of christian compassion is being changed in the church into pure individualism.

The idea that our founding fathers were pure and we've drifted away from God due to Satan's continual efforts is a dangerous foundation upon which to make the heavy decisions of the Office of President.

This idea that to be Catholic you have to be 100 % is the same idea that cultures and groups around the world have used to justify the elimination of those that were not good enough or pure enough.

which is nothing mere than just an idea, i mean the idea of pure chance.

Whatever idea or theory I might have is pure conjecture in the absence of evidence... as would be your own ideas or theories.

Again and again throughout history, what started as pure mathematics — ideas developed solely for the sake of their intrinsic interest and elegance — turned out later to be needed to express fundamental laws of physics.

So the story proceeds, in a vein of pure imagination, stripped of all puerile fancies, to evoke the idea of a God who «spake and it was done».

Indeed, I have described above a Whiteheadian account of empty space to supersede an idea of pure nothingness as preceding the Big Bang.

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

He seeks the essence of an idea, a doctrine, a point of view; and when he finds it, he discards all the qualifications with which it is surrounded in order to elicit its pure and radical meaning.

Donald Trump manifests the post-political mentality of our time, encouraging the idea that our problems boil down to stupid, weak, corrupt people being in charge, and that all we need to do is replace them with the smart, strong, and pure.

As he moves from pure history of ideas to historical sociology, his method is thoroughly Weberian.

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

It also suggests that while ICant rejected the ontological argument as a proof of God's existence, he affirmed this view of its significance when be established the concept of the ens realissimum as one of the ideas of pure reason.

Then there is the set of secular concepts by which this religious idea has usually been interpreted: pure actuality, immutability, impassivity, uncaused causality.

At least according to YOUR definition of «god» perhaps.By placing your «god» outside of the known universe, you then protect your flawed idea of a god from scrutiny, simply saying god doesn't have to play by the rules, is pure speculation in a) the existance of a «god» and b) where or how this «god» exists if not in our existance.

The idea of God is really moral in its influence — it really cherishes all that is best and loveliest in man — only when God is contemplated as sympathizing with the pure elements of human feeling, as possessing infinitely all those attributes which we recognize to be moral in humanity....

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

It is precisely in the introduction of formative elements as conditions of the possibility of actual entities, according to Collingwood, that Whitehead differs from Alexander.25 Furthermore, the status of one of these formative elements, the «eternal objects,» is analogous to that of the «abstract entities»: 26 both are situated between the realism of ideas and pure nominalism.

I want to glance at this pair of ideas — inside and outside — from the standpoint of pure mathematical topology, where they are not simple even though the spaces and entities involved are purely mathematical.

He pointed out that the idea that physical things are each «simply located» in a Cartesian pure space is a case of a past technical concept diffused into present common sense (SMW ch.

This leads naturally to the fourth and final component of the idea of pure sacrifice: the ontological vision which sees Being without immortality of the soul or resurrection of the body.

The third component of the notion of pure sacrifice is the idea that subjectivity itself is constituted through the «persecution» of my consciousness by the demands of the vulnerable other.

Certainly the J and E writers and their successors who made so much of the idea did not create it out of pure imagination.

This is also entirely consistent with Rand's ideas that the «job creators» could do no wrong and should be unfettered by any regulations whatsoever (which naively ignores the disastrous consequences of when we had no regulation whatosever during the Industrial Regulation, but then again pure ideology need not be hindered by real - life consequences).

Now in these lectures I propose to ignore the institutional branch entirely, to say nothing of the ecclesiastical organization, to consider as little as possible the systematic theology and the ideas about the gods themselves, and to confine myself as far as I can to personal religion pure and simple.

The idea is that evil, in its purest form, is a state of nothingness, and what we see as evil and label as evil in our common experience is really a sort of entropy: reality breaking down and falling apart in both relational and physical ways, a movement toward nothingness?

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.

Even in pure research a person often has a general idea of the sort of results that are likely to follow, and the motives of the project's sponsor indicate the type of outcome for which he hopes.

Because he conceives radically the idea of the grace of God, he makes it plain that God's forgiveness must be for man an event in time, that the relation of «I» and «Thou» exists between God and man, that God stands opposite to man as another Person over whom the man can have no sort of control, who meets man with His claim and with His grace, whose forgiveness is pure gift.

By calling Shakespeare «nonideological,» and by joining Bloom in hailing him as a refutation of all those ideologies that offer us no hope of «liberation from liberation,» I am not claiming that he passed his life in a hermetically sealed realm of pure aesthetics, blissfully unaware of the passions and ideas that were tearing apart the English nation.

The agonized attempt to reach for good and light beyond pain and dark is a pure expression of faith in the idea that there is a God who reaches back.

Above all, this means a change in the meaning of work, a lessening of its pure utilitarianism, a recovery of the idea of work as a calling.

The idea that physics by itself could predict, or even causally explain, all the movements of living human bodies is a pure pipedream.

In expressing his naturalism Piaget kept his theory on a level of pure immanence, unlike Whitehead, who appealed to a timeless transcendent realm of ideas («eternal objects»), Piaget saw «forms» only as the constructions of natural subjects, and he wanted to explain this construction as a process of self - regulation.

The designation of the «pure form» is based on a loaded idea of what is original, which we must now put to the test.

The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual's past experience directly serves as a model.

It is not only the Ideas of pure Reason, as Kant styled them, that have this power of making us vitally feel presences that we are impotent articulately to describe.

For example, Martin Heidegger argues that the whole modern view of the person as an active subject engaged in the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing one.

Our conceptual machinery breaks down in trying to explicate the idea of pure nothing.

Classical theism is a beautiful way of thinking about thinking, and for those who are passionate about pure thought, there is no idea more beautiful than the idea that God is like our ideas.

The idea of pure present is a speculation of mysticism.