Sentences with phrase «richness of experience of»

The point here is simply that since the richness of our individual experience depends upon the richness of the experience of others with whom we associate, the growth of our good is a function not primarily of competitive advantage but of communal well - being.

What matters is not growth in power and possessions but in richness of experience of all that lives.

The intrinsic value of a life is a function of richness of experience of that life.

He does not base his ethic on relative richness of experience of different creatures but on capacity to suffer.

It is savoring the richness of experience of the present and not a future projection of happiness.

The worthwhileness of occasions is in the richness of the experience of occasions.

Not exact matches

The sight of dozens of people covered from head to toe in thick grey mud can take some getting used to, but it all adds to the richness of the experience.

«The dialogue of robos vs. humans or old vs. new really misses the richness of what's going on, which is an entire industry re-inventing itself to be more modern, more in line with what investors want to pay for, and to be more in line with the consumer experiences of today.»

Their travel to and from Hong Kong was provided by Hong Kong Airlines, which in partnership with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is supporting Canadian youth in experiencing the richness and diversity of Hong Kong's culture and people.

Cobb does this because of the «natural emphasis of process thought... on finding ways for all to grow together in freedom and richness of experience» (PTPT 149).

This unconscious feeling would have to retain the experience in all of the richness and individuality with which it is now recalled.

The within of things we experience as humans is richness of conscious experience.

In a time when the richness of play (from recreational activity to the arts) is available to an increasing number of Americans, and when some are finding sources of pleasure, meaning, and power within such experiences, Christian theology is being challenged to reassess its suspicions of play.

In this way the richness of both present experience and Christian theology is flattened and reduced to the single focus of our mission of realizing God's future within our present suffering and affliction.

Jewish tradition holds that Torah has 70 faces, which tells me that Torah has many facets and can be understood in a variety of different ways — indeed, it's that very richness and multiplicity which allows us to continue to experience it as holy.

But some, the more complexly organized, enjoy amid their sentience greater harmony or intensity — greater «richness of experience» to use Birch and Cobb's phrase — than others.

I have learned from Augustine to read for life, for the motivating ideas and the energetic commitment to richness of experience and understanding Augustine derived from reading.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

There is intrinsic value, or richness of experience, in every living creature, human or nonhuman.

which allows for diversity and richness of experience.

Finally, we can imagine how the diversity of creatures and ecosystems adds to the aesthetic richness of the encompassing divine experience.

We aim to rediscover and reconstruct a society based on «belief in the ability of human experience to generate the aims and methods by which further experience will grow in ordered richness» (PCM 227).

«I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life,» Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor

Life longs for more life, for more abundant life, for greater richness of experience.

On this scale humans would have a richness of experience and a degree of self - determination vastly different in degree, though not in kind, from the proton.

Everything is appraised in terms of its capacity to contribute to the richness of this momentary experience, which is prized for its own sake.

Key concepts in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being, ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.

This book is therefore about relationships, more particularly those relationships that make for richness of experience.

That is richness of experience.

It is my conviction that whoever has a human face can experience richness of experience, at - one - ment, healing and a passionate response to ultimate concern.

First, the aim at intensity or richness of experience on the part of individual moments of the soul's life leads the soul to actualize itself in ways that are immediately rewarding to it, independently of their consequences for the organism as a whole.

It is to deny their lives richness of experience.

It added an immense richness to the unconscious, which, by the continuity of its life, constituted the successive occasions of human experience as a unified soul.

One answer might be that the experiencing of values first in temporal sequence and then in immediate togetherness adds to the richness of the values experienced.

Animal life introduces the central nervous system and a much higher capacity for richness of experience.

Fulfillment entails a notion vital to the development of an ethics of character and virtue from a process perspective, that all creatures, all actuality, drive towards the experience of beauty, richness of experience.

We do not lack for explanations of the variability of time experience but we do lack for one adequate to the richness of the data.

Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.

But since consciousness presupposes experience and not experience consciousness, we must reckon with the possibility that all of them are, in fact, prehended at all times — hence, with an immense richness of unconscious experience.

The degree of contrast and richness of experience depends in large measure, as we have seen, upon the environments of which organisms are a part and with which they interact.

Life is characterized by the capacity for contrast, intensity, richness of experience.

Needless to say, as we have also seen, the human and non-human environments of which human beings are a part and with which they interact need to provide the maximum opportunity for contrast, intensity, and richness of experience in a society that is just, sustainable and participatory.

Only one chapter is explicitly theological, dealing with Life, based on the Whiteheadian understanding of God, exploring what enables the development of life, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness of experience through the lure of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss of immediacy.

The purpose of education is not to fill empty minds with knowledge but to teach life, motivation, a drive for beauty, harmony, intensity, contrast, and the richness of experience — to seek a process - relational vision.

In order to insure this richness of experience for his consequent nature, God therefore provides to each occasion that initial aim which, if actualized, would contribute maximally to this harmonious intensity.

The character of the world is influenced by God, but it is not determined by him, and the world in its turn contributes novelty and richness to the divine experience.»

He is, as Charles Hartshorne would put it, «the supremely worshipful», who is surpassed by anything which is not Himself; yet in His own life He may surpass, in richness of experience and capacity for adaptation and provision of new opportunity for advance, that which He has been.

And we might conceive of the entire progressively redeemed world as «God's body,» in and through which God's primordial conceptual richness is actualized and experienced in an open - ended process.

But whether the «nature of things» be grounded in God, or whether God be the primordial exemplification of «the nature of things» with respect to an independent, abstract «category of the ultimate,» it is the case that both the biblical record and process - relational thought recognize a pervasive movement toward greater richness of experience as a generic feature of reality.

So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and richness of experience which were God's aims in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures of a «lower» order.