Sentences with phrase «seen as a concrete»

Stories, then, can be seen as reflections of concrete reality, or they can be seen as concrete realities in themselves, parts of a particular civilization.

The Housing Minister Nick Boles recently remarked that houses are in fact of more value than green fields, having announced plans that some opponents would see as concreting over the countryside.

Not exact matches

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

In the Los Angeles Times Tracy Wilkinson saw Trump's withdrawal from the climate deal as «the most concrete sign yet» that his America first foreign policy «has begun to disrupt the global order and ultimately could cede Washington's dominant role on the world stage to China.»

Architects, contractors, engineers and equipment sellers should all see some uplift, as should makers of infrastructure inputs such as concrete, formed steel and utility poles.

There was plenty of noise inside the spheres on a recent tour, as workers welded steel, pounded bolts into place and sawed concrete inside the half - built structure.

The sound of chain saws began to fill the silence that spread across San Juan late Wednesday afternoon as firefighters began to remove trees and used small bulldozers to lift toppled concrete light posts.

Its activities were first seen as far back as 2004, but recent developments have revealed more concrete details about the operation itself, including its origins and targets.

But we do see things consistent with the Bible, To take a concrete example, the Bible states that Israel wold be destroyed as a nation, but after a long period of time would become a nation again, It's a matter of belief whether the Bible made a God - inspired prophecy or a lucky guess, But it's a matter of objective fact that Israel was destroyed by the Romans and became a nation again in 1948.

The tendency is at least as old as John Greenleaf Whittier, whose «The Crucifixion» makes much of seeing «the suffering son of God» but never shows us any concrete bodily suffering.

It should be, we suggest, simply a matter of seeing dynamic, concrete, relationality as intrinsic to and not extrinsic to formal intelligibility.

(1) The concrete universal as the individual seen in conjunction with the thought structure implied in it, that which makes it an intelligible unity, is neither a naively conceived sense - object, nor an abstract logical universal.

He sees the structure of being as the eternal order in the mind of God, but he wants to conceive reality including God himself as exhibiting a real history of concrete happenings.

We see at once that the historical in the more concrete sense is a matter of indifference; we may suppose a degree of ignorance with respect to it, and permit this ignorance as if to annihilate one detail after the other, historically annihilating the historical; if only the Moment remains, as point of departure for the Eternal, the Paradox will be there.

«18 Here Whitehead discovers first of all the value of the individual: «Remembering the poetic rendering of our concrete experience, we see at once that the element of value, of being valuable, of having value, of being an end in itself, of being something which is for its own sake, must not be omitted in any account of any event as the most concrete actual something.

Concrete seeing culminates in the awareness of ourselves and others as cosmically important.

I saw the new intellectual movement associated with Solidarnosc as part of the inner energy of the economic thinking of Pope John Paul II, part of his concrete, this - worldly hope for a New Civilization of Love.

It was what it was in its concrete character in large part, because He was what He was; and the memory of it was, as we have seen, largely the memory of Him.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

The realm of essence is the home of an eternal infinity of qualities and forms which the flux of physical existence (the realm of matter) may or may not actualize from time to time as the character of one of its phases (or which spirit may or may not conceive or imagine from time to time) but there is no dynamism in the realm of essence to determine which shall thus enter the concrete world (see RB 385 - 386).

Conscious perception, as he sees it, is a complex prehension integrating the prehension of another concrete actual entity, or physical prehension, and prehension of an abstract form, which he calls conceptual prehension.

Perception in its primitive mode, as we have seen, is perception of causal efficacy, that is, the causal efficacy of concrete singular entities, and, as a subjective response to such influence, it is emotional rather than cognitive.

Buber's I - Thou philosophy implies a radical reversal of the idealist and mystical attitude toward symbolism which sees the symbol as the concrete manifestation of some universal if not directly knowable reality.

As W. P. Montague saw so clearly (with no doubt some help from Peirce and Bergson), becoming as sheer growth, increase without loss, is the concrete reality and the secret of both being and becominAs W. P. Montague saw so clearly (with no doubt some help from Peirce and Bergson), becoming as sheer growth, increase without loss, is the concrete reality and the secret of both being and becominas sheer growth, increase without loss, is the concrete reality and the secret of both being and becoming.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

In his preface to Hans Trüb's book Buber points primarily to the trail which Trüb himself broke as a practising psychoanalyst who saw the concrete implications of Buber's thought for psychotherapy.

This «seeing the other» is not, as we have seen, a matter of «identification» or «empathy,» but of a concrete imagining of the other side which does not at the same time lose sight of one's own.

Only if we see a man in his concrete otherness is there any possibility of our confirming him in his individuality as that which he must become.

McHenry sees the «concrete experience» on which the scheme is to be founded, as Whitehead does in Process and Reality, as referring to the units of nature as they are in themselves.

But apparently Ely does not see that the ontological principle involves one further step, namely, that the ontological status of God as primordial is ultimately traceable to God as consequent, to God as concrete actuality.

The creative and more compulsive power of God as a concrete process is not emphasized (see ibid., p. 523).

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

And (2), this remoteness associated with Kant's metaphysics of morals helped to prop up an emergent anthropology of self - interest in that concrete individuals had no alternative, on Kantian grounds, but to see themselves as sovereign.

On the other hand, we have seen that a person with whom we can interact and whose concrete presence we enjoy is able to be genuinely other, and in a positive way, rather than just as a victim or as suffering.

When the pastor writes a sermon, an empathetic imagination sees again those concrete experiences with his people which called upon all his resources, drove him to the Bible and back again, and even now hang as vivid pictures in his mind.

God's grace is not radically thought, so long as it is conceived as a possibility in the future instead of being grasped as a reality in the present; for what right would a man have to assert the grace of God, if he did not see it revealed as a concrete reality in his own life?

For instance, we see concrete examples of introspection as a way to transcendence, revelation, or truth, persisting through figures such as Nietzsche, Proust, and even Knausgaard in our own day.

The study text asks for a twofold hermeneutics: On the one hand, it focuses on the understanding of the Gospel; on the other hand, on the understanding of the context, inasmuch as faith should come to its concrete expression within a particular context (see para. 4).

In his early research into the child's world - view, Piaget showed that the thing - concept, as Whitehead criticized it, actually appears rather late in a child's development and represents an abstraction from earlier and more concrete perceptions (RME) Not until around ten years of age does the child come to see «things» in reality in the way the adult sees «things» in reality and uses the thing - concept consciously, that is argumentatively.

One must know concrete instances first; for, as Professor Agassiz used to say, one can see no farther into a generalization than just so far as one's previous acquaintance with particulars enables one to take it in.

Consider some possibilities: See «the church» as an abstract (theologians») ideal of which individual congregations are concrete and relatively enduring particular instances?

As we have seen, the process metaphysics defended by Hartshorne takes momentary individual experiences or events (Whitehead's actual occasions) as the primary and concrete constituents of realitAs we have seen, the process metaphysics defended by Hartshorne takes momentary individual experiences or events (Whitehead's actual occasions) as the primary and concrete constituents of realitas the primary and concrete constituents of reality.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

He does not appear to see holistic structure as inherent to all «matter - energy» as discovered aposteriori, and therefore to see the concrete inter-relativity of all formality.

Bearing this in mind, I am not sure I have understood what you mean by suggesting that one should see «dynamic, concrete, relationality as intrinsic and not extrinsic to formal intelligibility».

The light seems to come in two varieties, silver or gold, and sometimes the glow makes it feel like the prairies are threatening to take over; the concrete will start falling away and luscious grasses will spring up everywhere, wildflowers and meadow as far as the eye can see.

I've also been reading a lot of preliminary studies on allergies (the science is still not concrete, as food — and how we react / adapt to it — changes faster than science), and I've seen everything from therapies to medicine that can help alleviate allergies.

As I said my son has a number of meetings, but so far nothing is concrete, we must wait and see.»

As you know, I feel the time is right for a change, but have not heard or seen anything as concrete as you suggesAs you know, I feel the time is right for a change, but have not heard or seen anything as concrete as you suggesas concrete as you suggesas you suggest.

Having said all of this, I really want to see Whittaker VS GSP and watch a fellow Aussie take on one of the best ever and concrete himself as one of the best Middleweights ever.