Sentences with phrase «subjective form of»

God's subjective aim will then be so to actualize himself in each moment that the propositional feeling he entertains with respect to each new occasion will have maximum chance of realization.17 Every occasion then prehends God's prehension of this ideal for it, and to some degree the subjective form of its prehension conforms to that of God.

It is not self - evident that the fact that my sense of obligation is the subjective form of the feeling of a proposition warrants the assertion that I ought to actualize that proposition.

First, are there any possible modes of behavior the subjective form of the imaginative feeling of which inescapably includes the sense of obligation?

Ethical assertions would be uniquely warranted by factual statements about the subjective form of the prehensions of imaginative propositions.

The sense of obligation is the subjective form of an imaginative feeling of a proposition of which one's future self is the logical subject and a possible mode of behavior is the predicate.

Once again we can see that this principle is warranted by the factual statement that in ethically developed men the sense of obligation is inescapably included in the subjective form of the imaginative feeling of that mode of behavior.

That this subjective form of imaginative feelings occurs in most normal adults in our culture is not widely disputed.

My judgment that I ought to act that way would be warranted by the correctness of my belief that the sense of obligation inescapably functions in the subjective form of that imaginative feeling.

There is some subjective form of these prehensions which may be little more than a repetition of the way in which the past occasions felt.

Wu - yu is the concept of objectless desire, which is the subjective form of feeling associated with instances of wu - chih and wu - wei.

All these instances of form fall under the «objective» species of eternal objects — the mathematical «Platonic forms» — or the «subjective» species: «an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of a feeling.

Essential data are factors determining the subjective form of the event.

In regard to his doctrine of ingression, Whitehead distinguished three different ways in which an eternal object can function in the concrescence of an actual entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445).

«Consciousness» for Whitehead has a more restricted use applying to the subjective form of particular types of intellectual feelings; thus something much broader in Whitehead's conceptuality must be found.

It is defined as the doctrine that «the primary activity in the act of experience is the bare subjective entertainment of the datum, devoid of any subjective form of reception» (PR 239).

This doctrine represents the rejection of the sensationalist principle, according to which the primary activity in perception would be a bare reception of a datum, devoid of any subjective form of reception.

Every occasion then prehends God's prehension of this ideal for it, and to some degree the subjective form of its prehension conforms to that of God.

In its prehension of these propositional feelings, the subjective form of the new occasion will at least partly conform to that of the past occasions it prehends.

In more technical terms, the subjective form of the prehension of the earlier occasions of experience tends to conform to the subjective form of those occasions.

Feeling is the subjective form of prehensions (PR 66, 337; AI 227).

That the concept of the concrete calls for that of the abstract becomes clear in the concept of the subjective form of an occasion as the concrete, unique, and unrepeatable relation to what was already given.

Where consciousness occurs, it appears as the subjective form of some part of the higher phases of experience.

Moreover, we may speculate that the special regional relationship will enter into the subjective form of this prehension in some way.

He says, «The «subjective aim,» which controls the becoming of a subject, is that subject feeling a proposition with the subjective form of purpose to realize it in that process of self - creation.»

Now the subjective form of a feeling receives its characteristic tone from the subject which privately entertains that feeling.

In Adventures of Ideas Whitehead offers another description of harmony: perfection of harmony is defined in terms of perfection of the subjective form of the satisfaction of an actual entity; and perfection of subjective form is defined in terms of strength, which has two components, massiveness and intensity (AI 253).

Christian also claims that the conformity of the subjective form of the present actual entity to the subjective form of the past actual entity is crucial to objectification.

The subjective form of a feeling is the manner in which the subject feels its datum (see PR 23 / 35).

But the later occasions probably can not eliminate the decision made about them from their objective data or avoid some conformity with the subjective form of the deciding occasion.

On the other hand, B may prehend A in such a way that the fact that it is A which it is prehending is of paramount importance for the subjective form of B rather than the particular aspect of A by which A is objectified.

Including the subjective immediacy, this «objective» immortality also includes consciousness in those cases where consciousness is the subjective form of immediacy.

This final integration of subjective form does not obviate the role of the individual subjective form of a particular occasion, however, since «the consequent nature of God is composed of a multiplicity of elements with individual self - realization» (PR 531; italics added).

The deeper we go, the more finite subjective forms are knit together by divine conceptual supplementation to become the subjective form of a wider portion of God's subjectivity, till at bottom it becomes coextensive with the whole.

The formal component is to be found in the subjective form, first as distributed among the many conformal feelings, finally as unified in the subjective form of the satisfaction.

Since the divine integration of feeling is instantaneous, 8 all of these subjective forms are immediately integrated into the subjective form of God's consequent satisfaction.

For the moment we may restrict ourselves to that portion of God's self - creativity reenacting with perfect conformation the subjective form of one of my experiences.

For Whitehead, consciousness is the subjective form of an intellectual feeling — that is, a feeling of the contrast between what is, a physical feeling, and what could be, a propositional feeling.

Consciousness is found chiefly in the subjective form of intellectual feelings, and «intellectual feelings, in their primary function, are concentration of attention involving increase of importance» (PR 416).

It is a special element in the subjective form of some feelings.

The physical prehension as conformal feeling, we have said, reproduces the object by assuming the subjective form of one of its prehensions, but as vector it is, and remains throughout the «life» of the subject, an essential relation to that individual object as other, as there and then.

Granting that Whitehead speaks of the subjective form of all events and the category of subjective unity, Mays is undaunted and proceeds to demystify Whitehead's language.

Instead, it signifies a personal and subjective form of religion that is more internal than external, more individual than institutional, more experiential than scriptural.

It is the function of a particular kind of complex integration of physical and conceptual feelings which yields the higher intellectual feelings with the subjective form of consciousness.

But as a subjective form of transmuted feelings, the adumbrative quality of «more» acquires an enlarged reference to a community in the totality of past fact.

I will term this common structural characteristic the «communal» subjective form of transmuted feelings.

6 In a conformal feeling, an eternal object already ingressed as characterizing the subjective form of an individual objectification given for a nascent occasion is reingressed as a character of the subjective form of the nascent subject's prehension of that objectification (PR 476, 364, 78).

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.

If God entertains such a propositional feeling, we may conjecture that the new occasion prehends God in terms of this propositional feeling about itself and does so with a subjective form of appetition conformal to that of God.

The subjective form of the propositional feeling is appetition, that is, the desire for its realization.

The point of the appeal to phases in an epoch is to explain the subjective form of prehensions divided out of the satisfied actual entity.