Sentences with phrase «sense of absolute certainty»

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Hegel's Phenomenology is often judged to be the most revolutionary of all philosophical works, and it is clearly revolutionary in understanding consciousness itself as a consistently and comprehensively evolving consciousness, evolving from the pure immediacy of sense - certainty to absolute knowing, and this evolution is internal and historical at once.

I in no way want to strip you of your experience of faith by suggesting that your certainty is (or could be) a fraud (I get the feeling you are pretty resilient to any such suggestion), but I still can't understand how you can claim certainty in any absolute sense.

The impression that every human being, the «whole world,» could sit on «this stone» and could use the stone to test and confirm the soundness and fundamental character of sense certainty, is therefore not an absolute illusion, because the sensuous contact between traveler and stone, or the traveler's visual contact with the steeple, corresponds to a typical constellation of events which occur in a variety of ways.

Fifty years of experience with families has smoothed the keen edge of absolute certainty that once gave his work its sense of urgency.