Sentences with phrase «source of meaning»

We must cultivate an alternative power, an alternative source of meaning.

• The movement to reject any objective ultimate authority and elevate human experience as the only source of meaning.

And it proposes that this other dimension is a gracious source of meaning and purpose for our lives in the immediate environment of nature and history.

The word has radically changed its meaning, and the change is related to the modern turn to the self as source of meaning and value.

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Only the attempt to transform society from within (# 5) can redirect a technological civilization to the service of God and man, preserving a legitimate place for scientific progress without making it the ultimate source of meaning in life.

These visions may be necessary conclusions from scientific work or extrapolations from it; or they may result from inserting other sources of meaning into scientific findings; or they may be the product of a sometimes unacknowledged assumption at work in the background of the scientists» investigations.

The majority's decision explicitly (and refreshingly) recognized that the constitution's text is the primary source of its meaning, while also explicitly recognizing that courts are not to review the decisions of legislatures for their wisdom.

The irony of the novel is that the late modern world, in which we ask the self to be the sole source of meaning, value and purpose, is a world in which the survival of the self has become problematic.

For women, the leaving of children often represents a loss of the central source of meaning, satisfactions, and sense of worth in their lives.

The force of Derrida's argument comes from his understanding that the play of difference (spacialization) and defer - ence (temporalization) in thc linguistic context of the sign is the prime source of meaning.

He contends that everyone, including atheists and agnostics, acknowledges the importance of «considering whether there is some ultimate, more - than - human source of meaning and value» and then of living one's life according to one's conclusion.

Casting aside every fixed source of meaning and value, Nietzsche passed through an interior dissolution of an established form of consciousness and selfhood, and resurrected a chaos of meaninglessness lying deeply buried within the psyche of Western man.

Contemporary meanings have for both the preacher and his listeners more importance today than ever before because man's contemporary search for meaning confronts so much new data that has never been properly related to the traditional sources of meaning.

In surrendering to it we shall find that it remains an endless source of meaning for us as long as we do not break it down analytically into the trivial fragments of objectifying thought.

Pre-rational sources of meaning became replaced more and more by rational ones with a conflict between the two ever present.

My most recent series, the «paintless paintings» uses the absence of paint to point to traditional materials, nomenclature, even expectations about painting as potentially expressive sources of meaning.

The true source of their meaning is concealed, not only by successive sweeps of paint, but beneath the guileless grin of Felix the Cat or the Caped Crusader's eye-less mask.

A third source of means is being irrational and tenacious.

Narrative therapy is a type of therapy based on the idea that storytelling is inherent, therapeutic, and an important source of meaning for people.

In her works, Kara Uzelman explores an object's potential for alternative sources of meaning and constructs pseudo-historical narratives for discarded items through collecting and assemblage.

The majority's decision explicitly (and refreshingly) recognized that the constitution's text is the primary source of its meaning, while also explicitly recognizing that courts are not to review...

Crushing defeat by frustrations and failures on the one hand, or arrogance in the experience of success on the other, will be less devastating if he does not see his scientific work as the only source of meaning and value in his life.

Over time, it became more and more fixated on hierarchy and social rank as the source of all meaning and value.

Another source of meaning for broad constitutional language Is the well - developed traditions of the nation.

Religion, and especially the understanding of the biblical faith, has been the source of meaning and protest far blacks.

There is a real danger that we might come to equate success in the economic system with a successful life, that we might come to identify the material rewards of the system as our goal in life and the source of meaning for us.

Thus it is a source of meaning.

As a result, we have lost the capacity to directly experience, and reflect upon, our connection to all, and to the source of meaning.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

But biblical religion does speak Out when material progress becomes the source of meaning and purpose in life.

To keep our heads clear of the narcotic of war, we must cultivate an alternative power, an alternative source of meaning.

The vision of «a Christian America» was a source of meaning and motivation for the values associated with the American Dream until very recently.

«A job can be a source of meaning and social support, which can provide a buffer against depression for some people,» says Eugene Baker, PhD, vice president of employee assistance programs for OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions.

The very event that has caused so much pain often becomes a source of meaning and identity and a place of familiarity, no matter how dysfunctional it feels.

They developed what the scholars call «identity projects» — «a source of meaning that provides a strong sense of self and is linked to concrete activities to which youth commit themselves.»

Yet people refuse to accept their seemingly irrefutable arguments and continue to embrace faith in God as their source of meaning, purpose, and comfort.

Another source of means is power, which can come in a variety of forms.