Sentences with phrase «regarded as the absolute»

Scientists who invent new theories usually reject certain epistemological presuppositions which were once regarded as absolute axioms.

For example, classical physics or the atomic theory came at a certain stage to be regarded as the absolute truth — the essence.

It can also be referred to as the prophetic premise, since it was the biblical prophets who first taught that «no work of man's hand or brain should ever be regarded as absolute, as permanent, as definitive» (Garaudy, 1:68).

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

The essence of God was regarded as absolute power and will.

Every ideological passion, liberal or conservative, may be encased in scripture itself or enshrined in longstanding interpretation until it is regarded as absolute and trusted as decisive authority.

Just as they reject the biological evolution of species, they fasten on particular beliefs and practices and regard them as absolute and fixed for all time.

In my view, your thinking is based on certain assumptions, but you don't realise that they are assumptions, you seem to regard them as absolute truth.

Remaining in the top flight will be regarded as an absolute minimum, and given the mediocrity that has existed below the top seven of the Premier League this season, a top - ten finish is entirely realistic.

(For the record, I don't take off points from my ratings of DVDs due to downconversion issues since they are more dependent on the player than they are the transfer itself; problems I encounter through my player may be absent or more intense on someone else's, and of course they should vanish completely on a 16X9 TV, so I note them here to let you know what you may expect, but my comments about artifacts should not be regarded as absolute.)

The Galaxy S5 uses a 5.2 inch screen with a very attractive Super AMOLED Full HD (1920 x 1080) display that many regard as the absolute best on the market.

Often regarded as the absolute best talkers in the bird world, African Grey Parrots have not only displayed the ability to mimic up to 1,000 words, but some who have been studied are reported to also be able to associate those words with meaning, effectively making it possible for them to communicate with their owners.

Breton believed in the future resolution of dream and reality into surreality, the reality he regarded as absolute.

5.1 channel sound is widely regarded as the absolute minimum speaker setup required to create immersive surround sound.

A freehold title (or fee simple) is generally regarded as the absolute ownership of land, subject only to the laws of the state and powers of the Crown.

Not exact matches

As philosopher Jason Brennan points out, even libertarians — and libertarians are, shall we say, fond of property rights — do not regard property rights as absolutAs philosopher Jason Brennan points out, even libertarians — and libertarians are, shall we say, fond of property rights — do not regard property rights as absolutas absolute.

Although this might still be regarded as quite high in absolute terms, it is towards the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated in the past two decades.

The answer is we can't, this is why the people who founded the United States used the Bible to base the rules that they would follow as an absolute with regard to morality... it's only as society has begun to drift from these standards that we are getting worse...

Regarding Amy Wax's discussion of abortion and child support: As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),..As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),..as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),..as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),....

So also is worship or prayer when these are regarded as a «pestering of the deity,» in Dean Inge's biting words, or as primarily a cringing submission to an absolute will.

Values that are held in common are treated as moral absolutes; values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or wrong.

It is because no philosophy can be regarded as philosophically absolute that the Christian can and should choose among philosophies [so long as they are philosophically of equal merit) the one that shares his own vision of the fundamental nature of things.

whilst arguing the absolute superiority of Judaism over Christianity and Islam, regarded both the other religions as having a role in preparing for the Messiah, because they helped to spread monotheism.11

Thus, in regards to the four theological mistakes which Hartshorne describes as various violations of the principle of dual transcendence owing to a faulty Greek inheritance and a Western prejudice which favors absolute independence over relativity and partial dependence, the Hartshornean foil touches black theology hardly at all.

Hartshorne attributes this consistent violation of the principle of dual transcendence to the fact that classical theism has placed too much faith in Greek philosophy, and to a Western prejudice according to which absolute independence along with the power to the cause of events is regarded as a superior attribute while relativity and the capacity to be an effect is mistakenly regarded as an inferior attribute.»

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

The higher Presence, namely, need not be the absolute whole of things, it is quite sufficient for the life of religious experience to regard it as a part, if only it be the most ideal part.)

Does this new emphasis on a «radical» and «substantive» evil mean that we can no longer place Buber in that middle position which regards evil as real but redeemable, thus refusing to ascribe to it an absolute and independent reality?

meaning by self choice, with dis regard to truth absolute, a Secular, self centered or an atheist, As a matter of fact, word ANIMAL means nothing else, but a atheist, self centered or denier of truth absolute.

Unless one regards Bergson as some sort of absolute enemy of finality (which is another common misperception — unsupportable in the text), 50 then one is not tempted to suppose that he makes no place for it in his view; perhaps as ample a place as Whitehead makes for teleology in his own view.

truthfollower01, it appears that you do not believe there is any absolute standard for morality, yourself, but, instead, believe actions that would otherwise be regarded as immoral can be regarded as moral based on the whims of your god.

In regarding mental illness as symptomatic of the diseased general condition of humankind, faith relativizes the simplistically absolute distinction between the sick and the well, and calls attention to a deeper, less obvious level of selfhood.

In New Thought, as in the mystic traditions of many faiths, oneness is regarded as literal and absolute, and therefore must include not only the victims of violence and domination, but also the perpetrators.

The relation of the absolute ground of being to the finite agent, when becoming is effected which is truly an increase and not just a variation, must rather be envisaged in such a way that the absolute ground of being and becoming is always regarded as a factor linked to the finite agent and belonging to it, though transcending it.

The trouble with such rules, however, is that they may be taken as absolute, without regard for the changes needed in adapting them to a new age.

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

This happens whenever it is said that the infinite God could regard a tiny aberration in the finite world as no more than just finite, and hence could not magnify it by an absolute prohibition and an infinite sanction, considering it as directed against the divine will as such.

Justification by faith in the realm of justice means that we will not regard the pressures and counterpressures, the tensions, the overt and covert conflicts by which justice is achieved and maintained as normative in the absolute sense; but neither will we ease our conscience by seeking to escape from involvement in them.

Infinite transcendence to being as such, hence independence and indifference with regard to a definite finite object within the horizon of this absolute transcendence:, this infinite transcendence exists only insofar as it envisages the original unity of being in every act that is

As has been shown before, it can never regard what it has done in a situation sufficiently clearly to know with absolute certainty whether it has said Yes or No to itself and to God.

Niebuhr said that the spiritual pride of nations has two aspects in its unconditional claims: «The nation claims a more absolute devotion to values which transcend its life than the facts warrant; and it regards the values to which it is loyal as more absolute than they really are.

The latter provides meaning through combining concepts which the former would regard as logically inconsistent — for example, that Absolute Reality be known as both «being» and «nonbeing,» as «here» and «not here,» and as «God» and «man» (Emptiness [Abingdon, 1967], p. 81).

But granted the impossibility of setting absolute limits to this event or of regarding any part of history as being entirely irrelevant to it, degrees of relevance can surely be discerned.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

It was known and acknowledged in distrust that there is an Absolute; it was recognized and acknowledged in distrust and suspicion that Jesus Christ regarded himself and acted as though he were a son and as though the Ultimate was his Father.

For we shall be inclined, if not certainly driven, to put temporary and proximate «goods» in the place belonging only to the absolute Good which is God; and as a result we shall attempt to live without regard for that last and ultimate environment which is the only «safe» context for all other values and goals that we may set ourselves.

This echoes the sentiments expressed in The Jeweler's Shop (a 1960 play written by the man who would become Pope John Paul II) when Andrew says, «I wanted to regard love as passion, as an emotion to surpass all — I believed in the absolute of emotion.»

The secularist who regards secularization as a matter of winning complete emancipation from the old heritage, is in fact turning secularism into an absolute, and without realizing it, he is in danger of becoming enslaved to a new form of idolatry.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

As the encyclical well notes, rejection of absolutes excludes philosophically the possibility of God — risking a nihilistic society in a state of wholesale amnesia in which nothing is regarded as prior to self; nothing transcends us: nothing, therefore, can ultimately unite the multitude in the face of the tyrannous caprice of the petty individual whiAs the encyclical well notes, rejection of absolutes excludes philosophically the possibility of God — risking a nihilistic society in a state of wholesale amnesia in which nothing is regarded as prior to self; nothing transcends us: nothing, therefore, can ultimately unite the multitude in the face of the tyrannous caprice of the petty individual whias prior to self; nothing transcends us: nothing, therefore, can ultimately unite the multitude in the face of the tyrannous caprice of the petty individual whim.