First and foremost, was firmly establishing that our storytelling approach embraces what makes the first - person experience so unique to games; a perspective that offers players
a subjective way of viewing the world around them.
What we have to ask is whether the New Testament narratives are affected by mythology less in their objective aspect than in
our subjective way of apprehending and describing religious truth.
The fundamental error in this whole approach is the artificiality of the objective -
subjective way of thinking.
This can survive the perishing of creative becoming if reenacted in its entirety in a new subject, that is, if taken up into another activity of unification as informing it with its unique
subjective way of experiencing.
° (51) 37: 10 — «
The subjective ways of feeling... clothe the dry bones with the flesh of a real being... The miracle of creation is described in the vision of the prophet Ezekiel; «So I prophesied...»» (PR 131).
Not exact matches
In its assessment
of our compensation program for our PMDs, Semler Brossy confirmed that the program has been aligned with and is sensitive to corporate performance, contains features that reinforce significant alignment with shareholders and a long - term focus, and blends
subjective assessment and policies in a
way that addresses known and perceived risks.
But regardless
of which
way the market heads from here, the bottom line is I still have no
subjective bias, and continue to operate under the mantra
of «Trade what I see, not what I think.»
If the situation is such that it truly compromises in an irresistible
way the liberty
of the person, then he is in the grace
of God, since the
subjective elements for mortal sin are lacking.
Here he works out categoreal obligations 4 - 8, initially as a
way of deriving the
subjective aim from the concrescent activity
of the emerging occasion itself.
The only
way that objective morality can possibly exist is if God exists, otherwise all morality is
subjective to the opinions and whims
of the individual.
But the fact
of the matter is that as powerful as science is, it has a long
way to go before it can offer anything nearly as complete and practical and useful to the
subjective lives
of human beings as the teachings
of the various world religions.
Instead
of relying on divine propositional feeling, it seems better to have the nascent occasion simply take over the divine prehending the world, for God is unifying, and evaluating (in terms
of his
subjective forms) that world in every
way which he can.
In fact, we may say that the
way the present is
subjective lies in its capacity
of being affected by the future.
There exists a difference between both, but not in the difference
of the object (the religion, the cosmology), rather in the «
subjective form»
of the experience, i.e., the
way in which the «object» is assumed.
Mutual dependence and interdependence, deepening inter-relationship all along the line
of advance, community or sociality, participation in a common life, the presence
of a drive towards satisfaction
of the
subjective aim, and above all the directive or projective aspect which is so closely related to that aim: here we have «in little» what in the universe at large we find in other
ways.
To say that «the world is my body» is to say that the world forms me in the same
way that my body forms part
of the content
of my immediate
subjective experience.
We participate in a universal phenomenon
of subjective growth as a person, becoming, along the
way, professionals, journeymen, craftsmen, and masters.
Their
subjective forms indicate the qualitative
ways in which the subject experiences the energy
of physical feelings.
And I would also like to point out that the idea
of rights is
subjective too according to your arguments, there is no such thing as truth and everyone should just live life the
way they want too.
In the case
of the woman strolling beside the Empire State Building on lunch break, one might say that whereas God does not convey to her the information that there is in fact a piano falling her
way, he could shoot into her consciousness via
subjective aim an awareness
of the possibility that a piano just might be falling her
way.
A second
way in which the transitions
of the self are disclosed is through the memory
of past
subjective experiences.
One could point out, quite accurately, that Whitehead talks about God and the world in such a
way that it is very clear that while God proffers a
subjective aim which, if accepted, would result in the greatest good possible under the circumstances, actual entities sophisticated enough to entertain complex contrasts
of feeling also thereby have genuine freedom
of choice with the result that they are free to reject the aim proffered by God, free to turn their backs on God's lure toward the best possible tomorrow.
My answer to this question is that I find it impossible to give meaningful content to the idea
of a
subjective aim derived from God which will function in the specified
way.
Another
way in which the consequent nature in both its functions is wholly dependent upon functions
of the primordial nature is in its need for
subjective aim.
No, the suggestion that God works in the world by introducing through
subjective aims new information about the past world not otherwise available to temporal beings just will not wash — all
of us know
of too many counterexamples to this
way of conceiving
of God's
way of acting in the world.
For each phase there corresponds a particular modification
of the
subjective aim, the «
subjective end»
of that phase.30 The modification results from the
way antecedent feelings influence the
subjective end, and that
subjective end in turn influences successor feelings.
For my part, when I look at the
way events unfold in the world, I do not see any evidence there
of the kind
of divine activity called for by the Whiteheadian notion
of God's consequent nature weaving itself across his primordial nature and then returning the «superjective» vision back to the world in an operative, effective manner through the shaping
of subjective aims.
If we abandon the thesis that God provides new information about the past
of the world by means
of subjective aims, is there any other possible
way we could conceive
of the Whiteheadian God serving as a meaningful center
of the universe?
It is its own value and meaning, and no other, which is affirmed, contrasted, deepened, and intensified in this trans - individual and even transpersonal widening
of experience, for throughout the transformation it contributes its particular
subjective pattern to the
way that whole is being experienced.
Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories
of ethics, has no
way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on
subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because
of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment
of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.
Even some critics who accept the fundamental reality
of the I - Thou relation as «the centre
of any genuine religious experience» treat «revelation» as the objective — «the act
of God whereby He has disclosed the
way and destiny
of Israel» — and meeting, or the I - Thou relation, as the
subjective — «the act
of man whereby that destiny and its divine source are drawn into the inner life
of the individual.»
Since his interest lies in the intrinsic value
of each occasion as it might contribute to his own multiplicity, and not in the reduction
of that value so that it might provide him with a novel decision, God in no
way violates the
subjective unity
of the satisfaction he prehends.
Morality is incredibly
subjective, and the only
way to objectively determine the merits
of a moral standpoint is to see how it would affect not only the person, but also everyone else in the society.
So my twofold task is first to show what it is about the treatment
of eternal objects in Science and the Modern World which makes the Aristotelian move possible, and then secondly to suggest a
way of handling the source
of subjective aims without there being any need to implicate God in the procedure.
But may not this retention
of mutual immediacy also mean that in some
way the
subjective immediacy
of the perished actual occasion is retained by God?
The
subjective form is how a subject feels its world (PR 35, 131, 249), and this
way of feeling grows out
of the feelings
of its predecessors.
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.
Yet by his principles God must prehend the entirety
of the satisfaction, by means
of a reenactment
of its
subjective form, its
way of experiencing its world.
Moreover, it receives a great many different
ways of feeling, as it feels the feelings
of a multiplicity
of past actualities, and it must synthesize all these into one final
subjective form, the one final attitude it adopts towards its world (cf. AI 327).
In the process the narrow confines
of the self have been lost, but not its
subjective reaction to the universe as a
way of experiencing that whole.
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.
Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view
of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO
way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly
subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being
of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.
Without denying this objective immortality, David Griffin has examined the possibility
of subjective survival more positively, 4 and John Cobb has speculated about the possible interpenetration
of such souls in the hereafter in
ways that overcome their possible self - centeredness.5 Marjorie Suchocki has also explored
ways in which we may live on in God which are quite different from these conceptions
of the immortality
of the soul.6
As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind
of concentration
of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «
subjective» side) and for that emergence
of novelty in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its
way.
Moreover, we may speculate that the special regional relationship will enter into the
subjective form
of this prehension in some
way.
He is ultimately critical
of Picasso's having squandered his genius on the merely
subjective and
of the
way in which Picasso's work ends in personal despair.
This means that God's ideal aim for Jesus was that he be prehended in such a
way as to maximize the importance for Jesus»
subjective aim
of the fact that it was God whom he was prehending, i.e., to maximize God's influence upon Jesus beyond the initial phase
of his
subjective aim.
This experience may in some
way be connected with an event
of revelation, and it may be necessary first to extract the distinctive Christian self - consciousness, but that does not make it any the less
subjective.
The
way she feels about what she is hearing, what Whitehead calls «the
subjective form»
of the prehension, is affected by her tiredness and the soreness
of some
of her muscles as well as by vague and half - conscious hopes and fears.
It is based on the conviction that the Christian scriptures give a unified, consistent account
of the nature and destiny
of humanity and cosmos, that is at once existentially true (it speaks to our
subjective need for order and meaning in our personal existence) and cosmologically true (it gives a true and adequate picture
of the
way our world objectively is and will be).