Sentences with phrase «qualitative distinctions»

Two further consequences of this philosophy merit consideration: the obliteration of qualitative distinctions between kinds of work, and the atomization of the occupational structure.

It rocked my world because the infinite qualitative distinction between God and mankind is the thrust of Barth's theology.

Moskop claims that there are five points of agreement between the two philosophers: both maintain that ethics is» (1) teleological, (2) having its telos in experience, (3) requiring qualitative distinctions among experiences, (4) based on an aesthetic criterion of good experience, and (5) altruistic» (MH 19).

In short, I will try to show that Mill and Hartshorne share a view of ethics as (1) teleological, (2) having its telos in experience, (3) requiring qualitative distinctions among experiences, (4) based on an aesthetic criterion of good experience, and (5) altruistic.2

Yet it seems that the «spirit» of man is Caldecott's only qualitative distinction of man from animals.

The notion of dimensions or levels of reality within nature has introduced into this later mode of evolutionary thinking qualitative distinctions which alter one's understanding of the conditions under which evolution occurs; such a concept also alters the implications of the notion itself.

In the second place the traditional hierarchy may have to be altered to fit the «general systems» view of physical reality according to which there are countless levels of organization in physical reality and correspondingly numerous leaps and qualitative distinctions throughout the universe.

Brown is not arguing for a natural theology - one that would seek to build from humanity to God, or for destroying the infinitely qualitative distinction between the two.

The difference is sheer quantity: Qualitative distinctions emerge from large numbers.

God's Word — God's Yes — can only appear as an ultimate No to sinful, autonomous and «religious man»; for Barth grounded his position in Kierkegaard's infinite qualitative distinction between time and eternity.

As Josef Pieper suggests, «It is, in the first place, are attitude of mind, a condition of the soul...»»14 Marion Clawson notes this qualitative distinction regarding leisure by recognizing that within one's discretionary time (what we have called merely «leisure - time»), some activities are what might be labeled «unfun,» i.e., «those undertaken out of boredom, or for escape, or because of lack of better opportunities.

The American Lutherans state that «a qualitative distinction must be made between [the fetus's] claims and the rights of a responsible person made in God's image who is living in relationships.»

Consistent with the general pattern, qualitative distinctions and independent evaluations even in education are subordinated to criteria of demand.

Qualitative distinctions are recognized, and the value of classification as a means of embodying them is acknowledged.

The qualitative distinction between physical suffering (of animals) and spiritual suffering (of humans) is not drawn out.

Barth draws on a variety of theologoumena to make this case: the sola gratia of divine justification, the hiddenness of God, the eschatological otherness of God and God's kingdom, the qualitative distinction between God and the world.

But they also believed there was a huge gap — an «infinite qualitative distinction» in the words of theologian Karl Barth — between sinful humans and the omniscient God.

This arrangement implies a qualitative distinction between clergy and laity.

He shows no sign of recognizing the qualitative distinction between past and future.

The doctrine of sin, the doctrine that we are sinners, thou and I, which absolutely disperses the «crowd,» fixes then the qualitative distinction between God and man more deeply than ever it was fixed anywhere — for again this God alone can do, sin is in fact before God etc..

It is important to recognize that having a second orientation to friendship does not mean that no qualitative distinctions are made between one's various friends.