Sentences with phrase «purposive way»

They did so in an articulate, extremely well organised, and purposive way, and for realisable ends — in their developed theories of overturning injustice, in their sophisticated collective organisations created for collective freedom.

We hold that it was precisely not demonstrable that God was in any direct, causative, and purposive way related to the exodus events.

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Man's purposive existence may express itself in all sorts of hidden ways and under many odd names.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

Of course one may imagine, as did the natural theologians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that a divine mechanic situated outside of the mindless world - machine could manipulatively direct it in a «purposive» way.

However, there is a mode of consciousness by which we at the human level of emergence might become aware, in a non - controlling, non-comprehensive sort of way, of possible higher purposive principles and patterns of influence operative in the cosmos.

Third, which we will defer for another day, we have to offer a new and better account of labour law and its basic purpose, which fits with the specific purposive approach, does not «get in our way», and thus avoids the unnecessary problems on display in Faskens.

Real reconciliation, to use the term favoured by a succession of chief justices, will only become likely when a government takes office that genuinely wants to forge new relationships and when Canada decides that the best way to interpret obligations set out in agreements will follow a line between clear and plain meaning and a purposive interpretation.

More importantly, and taking a purposive approach, it could not be right that transferors were allowed to legitimately dismiss for the transferee's ETO reason and at the transferee's request as this would be an excellent way of avoiding the protection afforded by the TUPE regulations.

It is conceptualized in such way that relationship malleability could involve induced changes in the relationship as a result of purposive action by the self or the partner in the relationship, whilst natural change is a change that occurs without any deliberate intervention or purposeful effort.