Sentences with phrase «satisfaction of»

As the author Christopher Derrick put it in his book This Strange Divine Sea: «Here, we are still alienated and in exile but are on our way home; we can not yet see the satisfaction of our deepest longings, but we do know where to look; we are still sinners, but we can get our innocence back; we are still going to suffer, but not pointlessly or absurdly; we are still going to «die», but not in the old sense, not permanently.

(3) It seeks to help the person enhance the constructiveness and mutual satisfaction of his relationships, rather than to aim at intrapsychic changes.

By «responsible,» Glasser means satisfying one's needs for love, self - esteem, and identity, within the realities of one's relationships, and doing so without depriving another of the satisfaction of his needs.

This is the challenge and the satisfaction of working with the alcoholic and his family.

He needs also the satisfaction of knowing that he can gain from others recognition for what he does.

The only requirement laid down for the satisfaction of sexual desire in marriage was respect for the procreative orientation of the conjugal act.

Satisfaction of our longing for «vision» is essential to human vitality.

The feeling of shame stands in the way of any adequate satisfaction of the very wholesome human need for a sense of freedom and significance.

The third alternative has already resulted in a modification of the principle of the independence of contemporaries, for DO (10), rather than DO (11), is construed as prehending the satisfaction of AE (10).

Does it recapture the «fullness and satisfaction of the ancient faith»?

The principle governing the temporal duration of divine occasions could be stated roughly: No new divine occasion commences until at least one new satisfaction of an actual entity has been reached.

On this interpretation then, the temporal span of divine occasion A might be 1/495 of a second, i.e., that span between the satisfaction of an actual entity with a duration of 4/45 of a second and the satisfaction of one with a duration of 1/11 (see above, p. 204) while occasion B would have a longer temporal span, 1/231 of a second, given the difference between the satisfactions of actual entities with spans of 1/11 and 2/21 of a second.

For our purposes it suffices to say that Hartshorne argues that, for two contemporaries DO (11) and AE (11), AE (11) receives its subjective aim from DO (10), and the satisfaction of AE (11) is prehended by DO (12).

At any given cosmic present, as determined by the divine simultaneity, some, but not all, of the actual entities have reached satisfaction.3 The satisfaction of no actual entity escapes some cosmic present, for at that time God prehends the datum and thereby increases his knowledge.

If the satisfaction of AE (10) is prehended by DO (10), then no new initial datum exists for DO (11).

It follows then that God's successive experiences must coincide with the inception and satisfaction of every actual entity, lest there be an actual entity for whom God is not available as an initial datum, or an actual entity whose satisfaction is not prehended by God.

That is, the objection points to a weakness in the Hartshornian system; on the system's own terms there seems to be no guarantee that each of God's successive experiences will coincide with the satisfaction of some actual entity.

Thus God would prehend the satisfaction of those actual entities of temporal extension of 1/80 in every successive moment of his life.

Since the divine occasion includes within its prehensions the past actual world of some actual entity, call it AE (1), the divine occasion could calculate the temporal span of AE (1) from inception to satisfaction and could time its own satisfaction and successor's inception to coincide with the satisfaction of AE (1).

Wondering about her Trinitarian unbelief, I determined to delve into this «problem which has long vexed the Church, and which even now has not been solved to the satisfaction of all who bear the Christian name,» according to Yale historian Kenneth Latourette.

There can be no doubt that we have here an allusion to Christ's death as constituting a sacrificial offering on account of sin and a satisfaction of the demands of God's righteousness.

Only those who have the nerve and hope to live in the tension between our past and our future may have the satisfaction of a significant present.

We should ask ourselves whether we think of success as something absolute and objective, involving the satisfaction of a common standard, or whether we think of it as something relative and partly subjective, involving a level of achievement different for each person depending upon his or her natural talents and aptitudes.

As far as the Bretton Woods organisations, the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO, are concerned, they require total transformation, following a philosophy that meets the integral goals of the economy, i.e. the satisfaction of human needs rather than alignment with the satisfaction of capital accumulation.

The public does seem ready to jettison long - term safeguards and the benefits of process for the short - term satisfaction of desires.

But if this gift of his Son was, in some way beyond the early church's or our own understanding, a satisfaction of God's justice, it was even more manifestly an expression of his love.

Finally, they have the satisfaction of knowing all those who doubted them will suffer god's eternal wrath.

If the satisfaction of sexual desire becomes the primary objective in a relationship, the desire can be enslaving because it diminishes the spirit (I Cor.

But to be sensitive to the aesthetic satisfaction of participating in the community's public life, even its common spiritual culture, was for Dewey an objective worth pursuing.

Everyone, even the professed atheist, puts her faith in something, whether it be reason, material or biological forces, economic growth, a messianic proletariat or the continual satisfaction of subjective desires.

These include the respect in which they are held in the community, the genuine appreciation they receive for work well done, the privilege of being invited to be with persons in their brightest and darkest hours, the satisfaction of communicating ideas that are important, the security of being surrounded by people who have affection for them, and the deep sense of well - being that comes from self - investment in significant work which helps lighten the load of humanity and makes for a better world.

Relationships are designed to thrive on something beyond just the satisfaction of the people involved.

And when in 1968 Paul VI warned that «a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires» (HV17) many would have dismissed this as scare - mongering.

But to the degree that men fulfill their socially programmed sex roles, they must deprive themselves of the satisfaction of many of their basic human needs.

On the other hand his control and efficacy operate not by arbitrary (that is to say, independent and «omnipotent») overruling, nor by being the only active elements in the occasion; but by the persuasive molding of new possibilities, by redirecting the pressures of prior actualities, by providing new opportunity for advance, and by offering the «lure» which evokes from each occasion in the ongoing process the movement towards satisfaction of its «subjective aim».

To the contrary we have asserted previously (PAWM 39) that there is good evidence in Process and Reality that the physical pole is part of the unified satisfaction of any entity.

• A raw individualism that conceives «freedom» as radical personal autonomy because it thinks of the human person as a twitching bundle of desires, the satisfaction of which is the full meaning of «human rights» and the primary task of government.

In industry the scientist finds higher salaries, the satisfaction of seeing practical results, and sometimes better research facilities.

His whole concern was the fulfillment of God's purpose rather than the satisfaction of man's curiosity.»

Most of the Vedic religious aspiration moves at the level of the satisfaction of physical needs — long life, food, shelter, protection, large families — but in these hymns one finds a consciousness of sin and guilt and the need for forgiveness, as well also as guidance and direction in living.

His solution is that the primordial, permanent nature of God is completed in the consequent nature of God «by the individual, fluent satisfaction of finite fact.»

Schlafly is now eighty - one years old, and she has the undoubted satisfaction of knowing that the conservativism that she pushed without compromising for decades is now the majority (if slim majority) ideology in America.

The science of the allocation of limited resources for the satisfaction of human wants.

Every actual entity is a struggle toward value, a process of concrescence that culminates in the satisfaction of feeling felt as a value.

In these days when the satisfaction of human wants is taken to be the only important activity, those who devise our systems of education are apt to find a place for all that I have called «play» only if they can regard it as «work» of another sort.

Mr. Sullivan has no interest whatever in reconstructing a Catholic sexual ethic, or any other kind of ethic that might propose constraints or moral orderings on the satisfaction of sexual desires, apart from a few narrowly defined causes of possible «social harm.»

Those who believe in justice as competition typically also adhere to a larger conviction: The good society maximizes the place of the free market because the overriding purpose of our life together is to make possible the satisfaction of people's wants.

In Adventures of Ideas Whitehead offers another description of harmony: perfection of harmony is defined in terms of perfection of the subjective form of the satisfaction of an actual entity; and perfection of subjective form is defined in terms of strength, which has two components, massiveness and intensity (AI 253).

Epicureanism offers the fundamentally sad satisfaction of wresting a moment of disciplined control from a finally doomed chaos.

In a genuine religious community the satisfaction of forming a part of the group — however insignificant — will be outweighed by the humble realization of the members» shortcomings.