If the drawing, the child reflects selective and
subjective reality in record creation requires mastery of language as an instrument of knowledge and communication.
Not exact matches
In other words our «map» of
reality is just that... our own «
subjective map.»
Given that faith is
subjective to the individual and based on their own interpreations of what their faith is, it's impossible for it to be a reliable tool to determine what is
in fact, despite our perceptions, the
reality of the situation.
Also, while you may be able to «find» meaning
in life as an atheist, this meaning can not possibly be anything more than personal (
subjective) wish fulfillment
in denial of greater
reality, that there is no meaning.
When an occasion has appeared, when it has fully come to be, it loses its
subjective immediacy, its process of decision, its feeling of self - possession; for the feeling of self - possession consists precisely
in deciding on the appearance of one's own
reality.
In relation to the contemporary tendency to psychologize the sacrament, this understanding of the
reality of the past and its causally effective presence supports the theological consensus of a presence not dependent on the
subjective state of the worshipers.
But
in Kierkegaard's time the death of God had not yet become a
subjective reality.
Existence
in faith is antithetically related to existence
in objective
reality; now faith becomes
subjective, momentary and paradoxical.
Note, however, that one of Whitehead's categories
in Process and
Reality states:» (iii) That
in the becoming of an actual entity, novel prehensions, nexus,
subjective forms, propositions, multiplicities, and contrasts, also become» (22).
In conclusion, the realist thesis is this: To say that actual entities are the final realities does not mean that nexus are merely multiplicities (or sets), or that nexus are merely subjective, or that nexus only exist in the consequent nature of Go
In conclusion, the realist thesis is this: To say that actual entities are the final
realities does not mean that nexus are merely multiplicities (or sets), or that nexus are merely
subjective, or that nexus only exist
in the consequent nature of Go
in the consequent nature of God.
What perishes
in this process, marking the loss of
reality's
subjective immediacy, is the existential
reality of essential features; what remains is the objective
reality of conditional and essential features harmonized.
The
subjective emphasis on
reality construction and personal meaning has pointed toward inner moods and motivations — phenomena that elude the usual methods of documentation and verification
in the social sciences.
Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper
reality,
in some aspect of the world, often as that wholeness is presented
in a work of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus of quality, the
subjective locus would be the emotional intuition of the objective quality; this
subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment of quality which provides the substance of the derivative and propositional resolution of the conflict between the individual and its environment.
At least this is the idea we propose to explore, particularly
in terms of the closing pages of Process and
Reality, for we are persuaded it offers a more fruitful way of conceiving the preservation of
subjective immediacy than the notion of a disembodied soul can provide.
In other words, the subjective moods and motivations of these individuals become an external reality in the form of concrete symbols that can be discussed or acted upo
In other words, the
subjective moods and motivations of these individuals become an external
reality in the form of concrete symbols that can be discussed or acted upo
in the form of concrete symbols that can be discussed or acted upon.
Our (as
in you, me and everyone else) understanding of
reality is so skewed and
subjective that you can not possibly hope to reason through such a thing.
It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues,
in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated
in chapter two of Process and
Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «
subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»
Although God assists
in determining the nature of
reality by initiating the «
subjective aim» of each emerging actual entity, because
reality is self - creative the human being must assume responsibility for systemic suffering and social malfunctioning
in the world.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 246) He adds, «There is autonomy
in the formation of the
subjective forms of conceptual feelings...» (Process and
Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.
In the static pattern of thinking, for two terms to have each an objective meaning, they must refer to two distinct individuals or realities, not to one and the same individual, for in this second case only one term is objective, and the other is metaphorical or subjectiv
In the static pattern of thinking, for two terms to have each an objective meaning, they must refer to two distinct individuals or
realities, not to one and the same individual, for
in this second case only one term is objective, and the other is metaphorical or subjectiv
in this second case only one term is objective, and the other is metaphorical or
subjective.
Schubert Ogden, author of The
Reality of God and Other Essays and an outstanding process theologian, argues against
subjective immortality, which he defines
in the second sense, as people»... continuing to exist as subjects for the infinite future.
Thus values are anchored not
in objective
reality, but
in the
subjective will.
I would not call this experience an hallucination, which I take to be purely
subjective in all important respects, having no significant objective referent, but rather a vision, the encounter with a nonperceptual
reality made manifest and perceptible by hallucinatory means.
Hence, as Leclerc implies, an actual entity's prehension of a common element of form is not simply a
subjective «perception» of that form for its own concrescence, but simultaneously an active correlating of itself with other actual entities
in that society so as to constitute a new
reality, a higher level of existence and activity.
Rationalism and scientism (belief
in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture,
in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own
subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral
reality.
Subjective morals are,
in reality, objectively meaningless, purposeless, and reach no actual objective.
Is the history recorded
in the New Testament just a vague
reality which underlies the Christian consciousness, the contours of which can no longer be recovered, or is it not rather the event par excellence, quite apart from our
subjective consciousness?
Consequently the event
in the process of revelation is not an objective
reality, it is simply a change
in the
subjective consciousness of man.
Myth therefore employs
subjective means derived from the human imagination to describe a
reality which utterly transcends consciousness, and which possesses an objective validity
in its own right, quite apart from its effects on the disciples and witnesses.
For this reason he understood the term hypostasis / substance not
in the objective sense (of a reality present within us), but in the subjective sense, as an expression of an interior attitude -LSB-...] In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unsee
in the objective sense (of a
reality present within us), but
in the subjective sense, as an expression of an interior attitude -LSB-...] In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unsee
in the
subjective sense, as an expression of an interior attitude -LSB-...]
In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unsee
In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something of the
reality we are waiting for, and this present
reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unseen.
Both claim to be
in a possession of the Truth they can not possess, arguing their
subjective, arrogant, conceptual point of view (opinion), based on their extremely limited and bias perception of
Reality.
Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical
reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home
in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «
subjective» projections.
On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective
reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning
in the realization of a novel
subjective experience.
In chapter 4, the emergence of the notion of «subjective aim» in the early concept of God of Process and Reality is shown on the basis of passages from Process and Reality 224 and 24
In chapter 4, the emergence of the notion of «
subjective aim»
in the early concept of God of Process and Reality is shown on the basis of passages from Process and Reality 224 and 24
in the early concept of God of Process and
Reality is shown on the basis of passages from Process and
Reality 224 and 244.
For the third group, who take symbolism seriously, religion is seen as a system of symbols which is neither simply objective nor simply
subjective, but which links subject and object
in a way that transfigures
reality or even,
in a sense, creates
reality.
The further question, of whether this kind of «memory» which preserves the
reality of such valued data
in the divine life, also carries with it what we might describe as
subjective immortality, is not discussed
in Whitehead's essay.
Expertly grounded
in the social - scientific study of religion, yet ultimately reliant on
subjective existential arguments, it does more than suggest the presence of a higher
reality.
The fact is that our experience gives us all this together, as being profoundly one
in impact upon us; we can not cut up the world of experience, after the fashion of an earlier philosophy, and speak as if that which
in its aesthetic quality has
subjective appeal must lack any genuine
reality in the world itself, simply because it does not lend itself to a particular kind of analysis by measurement or testing.
Two biologists and one philosopher argue that the psychical, or mental, or
subjective elements
in reality are more fundamental than the physical, material, or objective elements.
Finally, you mentioned that people consistently agree on the color green and use this as a premise for concluding that things, like color, are not
subjective or arbitrary and therefore must be rooted
in reality.
These lists and specific references
in other essays identify six similarities: (a) God is understood as love involving God's presence
in human experience and God's response to that experience, (b) human existence depends upon God's grace and that grace makes humans free, (c) humans respond to God resulting
in the fulfillment of God's intentions
in the concrete experiences of individuals, (d) knowledge involves more than
subjective sensory experience, (e) experience broadly understood is crucial for theology, and (f)
reality is characterized by diversity and relationality.
Like science, he said, religion is rooted
in encounters with
reality — though
in the latter case the encounters include spiritual revelations whose truths «lie
in the unreachable realm of the
subjective» (qtd
in Johnson).
For another aspect of the «complete agreement» with Bradley which Whitehead records on the subject of «perishing» resides
in his readiness to endorse Bradley's view that there is a final «
reality» which contains the
subjective immediacy of all feeling - centers without loss or diminution (PR 350f.
One of the areas that is not covered
in IM is the relationship of mathematics to the humanities or, more generally, to the
subjective side of
reality.
A science that recognizes that a fuller explanation of what happens requires attention to the
subjective side of things could, and I believe generally would, leave openings for the view that God plays a role
in that inward
reality.
It is not just a
subjective or arbitrary decision, but needs to be grounded
in the
reality of our existence.
In an impassioned poem, Timothy DuWhite, emphasizing that everyone defines their own
subjective truth, told his tale of being infected by an ex-lover, whom he still loves, and his struggle to come to terms with the
reality of his serostatus while completing college.
I greatly enjoyed Matthew Chalmers's article on the
subjective nature of
reality and how «quantum weirdness is all
in the...
In the researchers» experiments, subjects assessed the subjective synchrony between a looming ball (simulated in virtual reality) and an air puff delivered to the same side of the fac
In the researchers» experiments, subjects assessed the
subjective synchrony between a looming ball (simulated
in virtual reality) and an air puff delivered to the same side of the fac
in virtual
reality) and an air puff delivered to the same side of the face.
It is the ground of our Being
in which both
subjective and objective
reality come into existence... I agree more with [Lanza] than with anyone else that I have ever met.»