Sentences with phrase «regarded as subject»

At the turn of the 18th century, when Peale was active, still life was regarded as a subject of secondary artistic concern.

Thereby the decisive distinction is evident by which even for Aristotle a natural entity — entity in the full sense of the word — is regarded as a subject» and «superject» of its own process, to use Whitehead's language.

In other words, we regard them as subjects.

I used to teach Jurisprudence... a subject, sadly, which many universities now consign to the larder of obscure options and which legal regulators appear no longer to regard as a subject which will help the young lawyer become an expert in conveyancing, prosecuting and defending criminals or become a highly paid maven on mergers and acquisitions or... indeed....

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Others are subject to contractual impediments such as union work rules — or company policies regarding long - term or even lifelong employment.

Also regarded as a «thought leader», Subject Matter Experts are independent bloggers or advocates who have developed some type of following that garners attention.

Other complaints, in comparison, have to do with rights, and rights are traditionally regarded as not being readily subjected to such calculations.

Loblaw's and Shoppers Drug Mart's estimates, beliefs and assumptions are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive and other uncertainties and contingencies regarding future events and as such, are subject to change.

«Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment,» runs one key portion of GDPR.

The exemption also includes a number of investor protection measures, including that issuers relying on the exemption must make the offer to all existing security holders as of the record date and investors will be subject to investment limits unless they obtain advice regarding the suitability of the investment.

The tracker has been described as offering increased transparency regarding the legal affairs of companies operating in the cryptocurrency industry — with prospective investors able to quickly ascertain as to whether or not a company is presently the subject of legal action.

Therefore, even though the underlying assets of Bitcoin Futures are not regulated under the SFO, Bitcoin Futures traded on and subject to the rules of those exchanges are regarded as «futures contracts» for the purposes of the SFO.

To avoid allowing the selfish genes to set the moral agenda, Dawkins states a basic proposition that he apparently regards as self - evident — essentially the Golden Rule — and then hastily drops the subject because to develop that line of thought further would undermine his whole project.

On other subjects — his true feelings toward his own father in particular, virtually the entirety of his youth in general as well as his genuine feelings regarding religion — he could be, and was, tighter than a clam.

These two truths render the definition of «will» in regard to fallen man as «captive to sin» (Acts 8:23), a «slave of sin» (John 8:34; Romans 6:16 - 17) and subject only to its «master,» which is sin (Romans 6:14).

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views - in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

I would propose another explanation» that our humanity is often subject to an aversion to particularity, especially as regards the deepest questions of the heart.

According to Leopold, ethical progress occurs when beings once regarded in merely utilitarian terms — that is, as property — come to be regarded as appropriate subjects of moral regard, and codes of conduct follow.

Just because the Holy Spirit directs and leads one in a direction that is not the norm, just as Paul clearly related regarding his actions on this subject, does not make it a rule for everyone else, and much harm is done when people decide that everyone else must follow the unique road that the Holy Spirit has directed them down and declaring to be a sin what is clearly not a sin.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

The Synoptic Jesus» focus on the urgency of human readiness to receive God's promised basileia on earth is a subject of much scholarly debate regarding the tension between the signs of its arrival — the blind see, the crippled walk, as proleptic manifestations of Jesus» mediation of God's rule here and now — and the promise of a fullness of that reign yet to be consummated.

And, as we shall see in the next chapter, this makes a difference as to how we will regard a subject of major importance — man's salvation.

Creative action, we reiterate, is not limited to works of art in the usual sense Any subject or endeavor may be regarded as beautiful if its definition is broad enough.

They are subject to Nietzsche's charge that «the traditional Western metaphysico - epistemological way of firming up our habits» can be regarded as «an attempt to avoid facing up to contingency, to escape from time and chance» (PAP 14 - 5).

Nature must be regarded as an object, not as a subject.

For reasons which I partly stated in my Balliol lecture in Bradley (January 1934) I regard cosmology as the main subject at present demanding attention from serious philosophers» (NTM 1d).

While these are properly regarded as special subjects of study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill in reasoning and in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every other intellectual discipline.

Thus «religion» is not to be regarded primarily as a special subject of study, parallel to geography and physics, but as a life orientation to be effected in and through all special studies.

There are differences, secondly, as to the nature of the subject, which is variously regarded as pure consciousness, will to life, will to power, the scientific observer, or the intuitive knower.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views — in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

I have tried to make clear that I do not regard the unconscious as identical with the brain or any other entity subject to direct investigation by the physiologist.

But when the psychologist is most «scientific,» he regards these answers as a part of the behavior of the subject and not as a source of knowledge of some inner, unobservable state.

At one extreme, world - system theory, as I have indicated, would at most regard religion as epiphenomenon subject to the more profound influences of political economy.

The astonishing power of clergymen as well as everything which regards their temporal government is the subject of this chapter.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

Whatever issue may come before me as President — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

And in regard to the fundamental ontological paradigm case, it is to be noted that the movement towards being as such, in which the subject's self - transcendence is realized, really is a rising higher.

Consequently as regards the fundamental contention we are examining, it is not appropriate, in view of the historical associations that burden the word «material» to subsume under the term «matter» the subjectivity which is also met with within the primordial unity we have described, because to do so would at least obscure the equally fundamental difference encountered in that unity between the knowing subject and the object which is merely met with.

Modern non-religious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to transcendence.

He fails to achieve the first goal because he makes of God an exception which does not permit the relationship between God and man to be analogous to the relationship between two contiguous actual occasions and because his overwhelming commitment to what he regards as exceptional in God severely restricts man's independence from God as a subject free for his own self - determination.

Big Bang Theory, Theory of Evolution So let me EDUCATE you all: THEORY: «a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well - established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.»

In his exposition of Psalm 90 he even used the daring metaphor that the subject of faith was a mathematical point, so far was he from regarding faith as a subjective experience through which man's understanding of himself is illuminated, and so exclusively should faith be defined in reference to its object, the extra se of the historic Christ.

Admittedly, Whitehead regards the fundamental form embodied in the subject - predicate sentence structure as an unsuitable instrument for describing pure becoming.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

On Maundy Thursday, while sitting at table, Jesus considered himself a dead man and spoke of blood poured out and other subjects conventionally regarded as indelicate to table talk.

While hymns covered just about every subject, those which found particular favor in nineteenth century America were based on a personal experience of Jesus and the gospel, particularly in regard to faith («Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine»), the atonement of Jesus («When I Survey the Wondrous Cross»), confession («Just As I Am, Without One Plea»), dedication («Nearer, My God, to Thee»), following Jesus» example («Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us»), and salvation («Amazing Grace!

Despite Hall's appeal to the Whiteheadian separation of «practical» and «speculative» reason, 11 I think that on a more fundamental level Whitehead too regards knowing (or more broadly the relation of any actual occasion to its «environment») as an active process in which the aim of the subject at its own attainment of value partially determines how it will respond to the objects of which it is aware.

In this regard Whitehead deliberately directs his sharpest polemic against the substance - quality model and thereby against the concept of substance found in Aristotle's Categories, according to which a [primary] entity can not be in another as in its subject.

Whether or not we regard animals as subjects with feelings akin to our own depends also upon our general vision of the world.