Sentences with phrase «structure of human experience»

He believed that at a highly generalized level one could find identities between the structure of the experience of birds and the structure of human experience.

The imitation theory of the truth of art has at least this on its side: in a sense a good story, a true story, is «true to» the structure of human experience.

Whatever is present in the inescapable structures of human experience must be present in «being - itself» to use that as a synonym for ultimate reality.

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in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

I believe that a careful investigation of the class structure of our capitalist society would persuade us that Peace is not attainable at the human level of experience without Justice.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

Our perception of the structure of reality changes as we become aware of new areas of human experience and knowledge.

Whitehead's project to find, in occasions of human experience, patterns or structures that can be generalized, presupposes and implies the view that human beings are wholly, and without remainder, part of the natural world.

Pfeiffer, J. W., and Jones, J. E., A Handbook of Structured Experiences for Human Relations Training.

While any knowledge of God must indeed be conditioned by human experience, Ashbrook and Albright actually claim much more than this: that the brain not only patterns our experience of God, but its very structure can inform us of God's nature.

Mechanism, for instance, began as a limited theory about the structure of matter, and was subsequently extrapolated throughout the range of human experience.

This stress on the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations means that, in considering the morphological structure of religious experience, attention must be directed to its origin in the physical feelings which comprise the primary mode of human experience.

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

Because these myths are products of actual human experience, they tell us something of the structure of human reality which nothing else can tell us.

One mode is that primarily employed in this book in which attention has been focused on the intrapsychic structure, and especially on the center from which the occasion of human experience is organized and unified.

In chapter six Williams examines the metaphysical structures revealed in the human experience of love.

Occasions of human experience everywhere exhibit the structures described by Whitehead's categories and, in addition to that, the special forms described as intellectual feelings.

And long before reading Sam Keen's Beginnings Without End, I was quite aware from my own experience that death and resurrection, finding oneself only through losing oneself, are built into the very structure of human life.

Like Cone, he is addressing the racist structures of society, expanding upon Cone's work by delving into the human tendency to universalize one's own experience.

To understand what is peculiar to the Buddhist structure of existence, it was necessary to concentrate attention on the relation of each dominant occasion of human experience to the predecessor and successor occasion together with which it constituted a soul.

Thus one of the principal tasks set for human reflection right from the start is so to understand the constant structure of all our experience that this original assurance can be understood to make sense.

For an exercise involving a questionnnaire which elicits basic male / female attitudinal barriers, see Pfeiffer and Jones, A Handbook of Structured Experience for Human Relations Training (Iowa City: University Associates Press, 1971), Vol.

This is why I prefer to turn toward some structures of the interpretation of human experience to discern there those traits through which something has always been comprehensible under the idea of revelation understood in a religious sense of the term.

He speculated that to be an actual entity at all was to have a dynamic structure analogous to that of human experience.

As human beings and communities apprehend the presence of divine compassion for them and with them, they experience power to resist the degrading effects of suffering, to defy structures and policies that institutionalize injustice, and to confront their own guilt... the compassion of God empowers.

The structure of the human brain gives rise to unified subjective experience.

Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable emotion, and of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure of reality.

There is a metaphysically irreducible contrast in human experience if it is always a compromise between pure order and chaos, between normativeness and the unmeasured, between unifying structure and the plurality of things to be unified.

and to pursue the analysis dialectically until that structure of being appears which makes the human experience of justice intelligible.

It is simply to ask what kinds of structures we find present in the human experience of love.

Our human experience is as much tied into the structure of the cosmos as is anything else.

Thus, utilitarian moral principles most closely correspond to the basic structure of reality as posited by his metaphysical system Since ultimate value in Hartshorne's view is achieved in the divine experience, human beings are morally bound to contribute to that experience by acting according to utilitarian principles.

By its stress on event and on patterning and integration, by its insistence that relationships constitute an entity, by its concern for an awareness of the depths of human experience (motivations, desires, drives, and «emotional intensity,» for example), as well as by its recognition that we are part of the world and continuous with what has gone before us and even now surrounds and affects us, process thought not only has been in agreement with the newer scientific emphasis on «wholeness,» but has also contributed a perspective which can give that emphasis a meaningful setting and a context in the structure of things in a dynamic universe.

For a view that applies the technical Whiteheadian view of society to human societies, the theological notion that the Jesus - event is the common element of form that is the defining characteristic of the society called the church, see Lee, Bernard, SM., The Becoming of the Church: A Process Theology of the Structures of Christian Experience (New York: Paulist Press, 1974), pp. 55 - 207.

Reading, she writes, «could only come about because of the human brain's extraordinary ability to make new connections among its existing structures, a process made possible by the brain's ability to be shaped by experience.»

In The Structures of Everyday Life, Braudel presents a densely quantified history of human experience around the world in the three hundred years before the Industrial Revolution.

Semantic metadata is not intended for direct human consumption; it instead provides a controlled way for Reading Systems to learn more about the structure and content of a document, providing them the opportunity to enhance the reading experience for users.

BookRiot contributor who writes about romance novels Interview starts at 10:59 and ends at 42:21 We're sort of worshipping at the temple of love, the same way that religion can help us make sense of human experience and help us to feel there's good in the world — there's a structure that is bending towards the good.

Research suggests spiritual experiences originate deep within primitive areas of the human brain — areas shared by other animals with brain structures like our own.

«Francisco Maia, DPT, CCRT brings extensive experience in human physical therapy and combines it with a wonderful understanding of canine structure, mechanics, and behavior to provide optimal rehabilitation for patients.

Differing experiential attitudes are being incorporated into the very structure of the gameplay itself which, at once provides an understanding of the terror of mental illness to an individual who may not have experienced it before but also celebrates the diversity of the human mind in its application of individual approaches to the world around us.

I've come to the realization that a landscape is part of a larger energetic system; that it is not constant in form, structure or proportion; and that any attempts to capture both the rough topography and the sensorial experience of landscape in painting must include an active human presence.

Deriving its title from a book by David Foster Wallace, the show comprises an eponymous new video work exploring human perception in the cold void of outer space, structured around interviews the artist conducted with NASA astronaut David Wolf about his experiences in the immediate cosmos.

Draper's work includes Full Immersion, a serial program that critically explores ways in which the natural order informs the structures and behaviors of the human experience.

In Requires extra budget for lettuce, emerging conceptual artist Jacob Stewart - Halevy responds to Giovanni Anselmo's early work in general and to the sculpture Untitled 1968 (Eating Structure), part of CCS Bard's permanent collection, in particular.Anselmo is often identified as a key member of Arte Povera, and his oeuvre is characterized by its focus on the effect of natural processes on human experience.

«I've come to the realization that a landscape is part of a larger energetic system; that it is not constant in form, structure or proportion; and that any attempts to capture both the rough topography and the sensorial experience of landscape in painting must include an active human presence,» Bloodgood said in his Guggenheim statement.

Made from natural linen fibres and hand - ground earth pigments brilliantly express the artist's unique creative vision, a materially engaged exploration of sensory experience, geometric structures and human perception.

Vibrating with hues, textures, and emotions, Humphrey's paintings demonstrated a consistent commitment to color, space, and structure — elements he used to move abstraction beyond formal considerations to that of the human experience.

Unlike typical linguistic or botanical accounts, Mc Hugh tackles the morphology of human objects and experience; seeking to define the underlying structures and the law of form behind the everyday things which shape our lives.

The exhibition is based on The Projective Cast, a book published in 1995 by architectural historian Robin Evans, whose goal was to define a new way to explain how we «see» architecture that incorporated the balancing of all sensations (mental, physical and emotional) that underpin the human experience of built structures.