I understand what it means to be
the subject and object of bigotry.
Upon becoming a ward of the state, the child is a commodity of the system, one with physical structure and financial value, and is
a subject and object of inquiry and investigation.
Indeed, this conversion can repeat the forms of violence it seeks to redress, as it can sustain the distinction between
the subject and object of feeling.»
Welcome to the virtual worker of recent fame — and
the subject and object of Om Malik's new blog, Web Worker Daily.
An elegant visual pun, the choice to develop a flag into
the subject and object of his artwork is also significant.
For over a decade, drawing and its methodology have been both
subject and object of Tara Geer's artwork.
Through his use of the material of inscription, the door becomes both
subject and object of its own creation.
Schneemann, then, became the consummate auto - didact:
subject and object of her process.
But only the transdisciplinary approach could achieve the authentic understanding of all astronomical information and discoveries concerning the Universe; only through a TD methodology the role of the Subject is recuperated and
the Subject and the Object of knowledge could be unified in order to understand the deep meaning of existence.
To realise its being and life, and to experience the fullness of human experiencing, the human person must be
the subject and object of love, for it is precisely in love that the human person most fully actualizes itself, and thus reaches the fullest realization of its being and life (66).
And this is so, I contend, precisely when, on both constructions, it is taken in its fullest sense — as meaning that God is both
the subject and the object of experience, not only reflexively in relation to self, but also nonreflexively in relation to others.
We are a religiously mad culture, furiously searching for the spirit, but each of us is
subject and object of the one quest, which must be for the original self, a spark of breath in us that we are convinced preceded Creation.
The subject and object of this Gnosticism is not God as God but God as or of or in the self.
Strictly speaking, ideal compassion was not conceived as a form of love according to the definition of love in this chapter, for in it there was ultimately no distinction of
subject and object of love.
He is both
the subject and object of our confidence, and as generations of saints who have come before us have testified in word and in deed, he is sufficient.
Only the dualistic form of the modern Western consciousness, which is grounded in an absolute distinction between
the subject and the object of consciousness, instills us with the seemingly irrevocable sense that the world or reality stands wholly outside of consciousness itself.
This statement reminds us that God is both
the subject and the object of faith.
It is even more dependent than the scientific community on the direct relation of the knowers to theological reality — the God of faith and believing men,
the subjects and objects of ultimate love, the commander and the commanded, the forgiver and sinner.
Bridging art and life, Gilbert & George are
the subjects and objects of Photo - Piece (1971), an installation of photographs of themselves in nature interspersed with images of a forest.
Not exact matches
The study was conducted by researchers at the University
of Sydney
and examined three groups
of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein
subjects are given an
object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.
«Additive manufacturing technology permits production
of extraordinarily accurate duplicates
of objects that are the
subject of IP protections,» said Teresa Rea, acting director
of the Patent
and Trademark Office, which is part
of the Commerce Department.
According to Paul Greenberg, adopt they must for buyers want to be «
subjects of an experience»
and not an «
object of a sale» as Greenberg eloquently states.
One
of my favorite comments I heard last year was Paul Greenberg's manifesto that buyers
and consumers do not want to be an
object of a sale but rather a
subject of an experience.
This is because both processes presuppose a duality
of subject and object.
In this structure
of knowing there is a fundamental split between the
subject of knowing
and the known
object.
He pointed out how, because
of the dominant reductionist view
of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an
object to be investigated, measured
and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible
subject».
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $ 29.50 Near the end
of Courage to Be, Paul Tillich writes: «God as a
subject makes me into an
object which is nothing more than an
object.
Here Lindblom quotes with strong approval Harold Knight, The Hebrew Prophetic Consciousness (London: Lutterworth Press, 1948), p. 96: «Here we have a state
of the highest integration, for the attention is wholly focused upon a single
object which gradually fills the consciousness until the connexion between the
subject and the outside world is broken.»
One can see here the connection between the internal relation between eternal
objects,
and the fact that from the standpoint
of the prehending occasion, its datum, as a logical
subject placed within a functional context, is internally related to it.
While Tillich provides a system to overcome the
subject -
object dilemma
of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process,
and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle
of man's existence.
Such an aim is the feeling
of a proposition
of which the novel occasion is the logical
subject and the appropriate eternal
object is the predicate.
If so, the initial phase
of the subjective aim is also the feeling
of a proposition
of which the occasion itself is the logical
subject and the appropriate eternal
object the predicate.
In the New Testament, beginning with Jesus himself, the projection
of personal destinies into the future world plainly accentuated the importance
of the individual
and made souls the
objects of solicitude
and the
subjects of salvation.
Whitehead points out that not all
of our sentences are about
objects and subjects.
In a proposition, «The definite set
of actual entities involved are called the «logical
subjects of the proposition»;
and the definite set
of eternal
objects involved are called the «predicates
of the proposition.»
The very act
of recognition withdraws the
subject from the
object being observed
and analysed.
In contrast to religious understanding
of transcendence, Marx asserted that human beings shape the universe
and their own destiny,
and human being is not any more the
object of history but its
subject and agent.
God does in fact treat us as
subjects — that is as those having their own agency — but many preach a gospel in which we have been reduced to
objects forced to live life in according to some divinely mapped - out
and pre-ordained «plan», or to be the at the mercy
of divine manipulation.
This comparison
of an actual entity to the structure
of a linguistic proposition can be misleading, however, since the concrete wholeness
of a process is the creating
subject (which is closer to the simple predicate linguistically)
and the
subject / whole's parts are
objects (the
subjects linguistically).
Let us call the two parties A
and B. B's property or treasure, B's heritage, B's right, is adjacent, or appears to be adjacent or is declared to be adjacent — adjacency is a phenomenally flexible term,
subject to interpretation according to what is deemed to he adjacent by the powerful covetor; B's thing which is B's by rights, by inheritance, becomes in its adjacency an
object of passionate desire, an obsessive craving, on the part
of a more powerful A.
The actualizing
of an actual entity is a
subject,
and the actualized result
of its coming - to - be is an
object.
Whereas the dichotomy
of subject and object has been challenged by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background
of modern molecular biology
and, more recently, sociobiology.
Scandalously to oversimplify his argument, it is, says Heidegger, the history
of this nihilistic impulse to reduce being to an
object of the intellect,
subject to the will, that has brought us at last to the age
of technology, for which reality is just so many quanta
of power, the world a representation
of consciousness,
and the earth a mere reserve awaiting exploitation; technological mastery has become our highest ideal,
and our only real model
of truth.
Given the standard Enlightenment view
of the world as composed
of human
subjects and nonhuman
objects, this dualism
of humans
and commodities seems appropriate.
In the opposite case, negative value or the experience
of the ugly represents a clash or incongruity between
object and subject.
He wants an eternal
object to be «the same for all actual entities» (Process 23),
and yet needs each creating
subject to have its own subjective form
of that
object (Process 227, 232, 246), in other words, to create its own, novel «eternal»
object.
Looked at that way, the essential content
of revelation, or perhaps the very nature
of God (whatever is the ultimate «
subject matter» or «
object»
of the inquiry) dictates certain methods
and movements
of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry as «theology.»
Perhaps «rule» or, better, the active participle «ruling» would come nearest to the original, but constant reference to the «ruling
of God» would be both clumsy
and subject to the facetiousness
of reading the genitive as a genitive
of object!
A precise statement
of what the correspondence or the clash might be is not easy to produce
and is not necessary here, since our main purpose in these remarks is merely to emphasize the point that value experiences depend for their character upon the kinds
of relationships that exist between
subject and object.
The relationship between
subject and object is no longer that relationship
of knowing postulated by classical idealism, wherein the
object always seems the construction
of the
subject, but a relationship
of being in which, paradoxically, the
subject is his body, his world, his situation, by a sort
of exchange.