In
the subjective world of career - marketing communications, where opinions vary widely and consensus is hard to find, the pet peeves and preferences of those with the power to hire offer enlightenment for crafting your executive resume — especially what to avoid.
This fictional and
subjective world of habitats escapes replicating real places but rather function as artistic reenactment of the visions behind the chaos, with the strong relation to the primary source of inspiration — imprint of real places around us.
If you forced me to answer under oath, I'd probably select the Stormy Daniels «Update» segment as the «better» one, whatever «better» means in
the subjective world of sketch comedy.
Reflective Supervision; Self - Care; Relationship - Based Organizations; Infant / Toddler Child Welfare Practices;
Subjective World of Infants and Toddlers in Various Settings
Not exact matches
Style is
subjective, but to me, the Honor 8 is one
of the best - looking phones in the
world, at any price.
While IIHS and dozens
of other private industry groups around the
world have methods and motivations that suit their own
subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing
of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability
of injury
of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»
If you go far into the
world of counter-human trafficking and the NGO community, the confusion around terms continues, especially with words like «rescue» which remains both highly
subjective despite their common application.
Mark Bauerlein's post on the rhetoric
of anti-discrimination points clearly to the problem which traditionalists face: In a
world where ethics is aesthetics, the language
of victimhood has become a
subjective concept which is a potent weapon in the hands
of the powerful.
The Scientific Positivist account alleges that Copernicus was replacing a
subjective view
of the
world in which man is at the centre with an objective one in which man is put in his place as just another and very recent arrival in the cosmos.
Rubenstein can teach the Christian that the God who stands aloof from the history
of nations is the God who stands aloof from Auschwitz, and that the price
of accepting a dehistorized or
subjective God (the God who is absolute Subject and only Subject) is the abandonment
of the objective
world or reality as such to the realm
of «flesh.»
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.
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.
Unlike a traditional realist, Whitehead can not conceive
of the
world apart from prehending subjects and their
subjective experiences.
This means that intentional objects have sense only in the context
of a larger
world - horizon which is not due to
subjective constitution.
Of immediate interest is the fact that the eighteenth Category of Explanation can also be termed the «principle of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications» of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
Of immediate interest is the fact that the eighteenth Category
of Explanation can also be termed the «principle of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications» of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of Explanation can also be termed the «principle
of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications» of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of efficient, and final, causation;» for elsewhere Whitehead tells us that the» «objectifications»
of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of the actual entities in the actual
world, relative to a definite actual entity, constitute the efficient causes out
of which that actual entity arises; the «subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134
of which that actual entity arises; the «
subjective aim» at «satisfaction» constitutes the final cause, or lure, whereby there is determinate concrescence» (PR 134).
When the citizens
of a republic or a civilization become merely self - interested (or equally worse, interested in nothing at all) the center fails, and chaos conquers — until a man rides in on a white horse and reestablishes an order based not on nature or on God's will, but on his own
subjective vision
of the
world.
In her transcendence, so the doctrine
of anatta would suggest in the first instance, the Mother
of the
world would not have wisdom and compassion, as if she were one thing and her
subjective states another.
First, the statement that God offers the
world a proposition in Jesus Christ must mean that Jesus receives from God a
subjective aim that he embody a structure
of relational existence to which every life is called.
The combination
of communal and adumbrative
subjective forms in transmuted physical feelings provides the foundation
of the religious feeling
of «the value
of the objective
world which is a community derivative from the interrelations
of its component individuals, and also necessary for the existence
of each
of these individuals» (JIM 59).
The elaborate scheme by which Whitehead relates the Primordial Nature to God's working in the
world via
subjective aims (PR 523 - 27) is ignored by Mays as he recognizes no difference in the Primordial Nature as «the ordering entity in nature» and «the order
of nature» (PW 58/56).
But the newspapers are full
of strolling women / falling piano - type incidents that just would not come to pass were God to operate in the
world by providing information about the
world, information not otherwise available, through the
subjective aims he offers to finite actual occasions.
Now it is exactly in situations like this — according to the standard account
of orthodox Whiteheadians — that God is supposed to lure the
world, by means
of what he proffers to actual occasions via
subjective aims, toward that falling out
of events which will make his future experience most positive.
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.
It is in accord with Whitehead's emphasis upon the
subjective unity
of an actual entity, that an entity acts as a whole, and with the indivisible unity
of polar opposites, particularly God and the
world.
Even Descartes» turn to the
subjective was driven by and for the sake
of his desire to understand the external
world.
Previous philosophers had,
of course, never denied the reality
of the
subjective world.
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.
In lived experience, the ongoing process
of doing and undergoing is a process
of experiencing the
world from a
subjective point
of view.
Still, like any philosophy, it has its dangers, the chief
of which is subjectivism» the view, which soon became prevalent, that there is nothing but
subjective consciousness and that the
world is but a construction or projection
of the self.
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 our
world were a centered universe, a universe with an all - seeing (i.e., all - prehending) God with the ability to introduce, on his own, new information pertaining to the past into the experience
of emerging actual occasions by means
of their
subjective aims, then our
world would be a much more harmoniously ordered
world than it in fact is.
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?
The method is realistic, not idealistic: Whitehead remarks that instead
of describing, in Kantian fashion, how
subjective data pass into the appearance
of an objective
world, he describes how
subjective experience emerges from an objective
world.
Rad - con philosophers typically claim to be «empirical,» reducing the intelligible
world to detectable phenomena and the
subjective experience
of the individual human specimen.
«These lectures will be best understood by noting the following list
of prevalent habits
of thought, which are repudiated, in so far as concerns their influence on philosophy:... (vii) The Kantian doctrine
of the objective
world as a theoretical construct from purely
subjective experience» (PR xiii [x]-RRB-.
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.
In this particular context, Whitehead is presenting his own resolution to the problem posed by the fluency and transience
of the
world, so
subjective immortality
of the soul takes on the guise
of a discarded alternative.
This is God as many, experiencing the
world separately and exclusively through the many
subjective perspectives
of the individual occasions.
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.
For the subject - object relation is an assertion
of ego, one's ordering the
world about his
subjective, personal consciousness, and as such it offers a handhold to all
of the invidious evaluations that separate men from things, from each other, and from their own deepest life itself.
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.
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.
It is indeed the end, so far as your and my
subjective selfhood is concerned, with conscious awareness, with the capacity consciously to act and to choose, and with everything else that is found in our mundane
world of space and time.
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).
Proust's
world was preponderantly made up
of subjective emotions and objective observations, whereas Dostoievsky and Blake first participated fully in what they experienced and only later attained the distance which enabled them to enter into an artistic relationship with it and give it symbolic and artistic expression.
The
subjective aim, which as Ford clarifies it, is a proposition whose logical subjects indicate the past actual
world the novel occasion is to unify, guides the feeling
of the nascent subject, the source
of which, for Whitehead, is God (DP 292n9).
So the «
subjective turn» is a refusal
of ecstatic existence, a stepping back from the
world, in preparation for its domination by a now alien will and mind.
He wrote (p. 267, my translation): «The
world is a richly varied configuration
of interdependent qualities; some
of these are given factors in my (or another's) consciousness, and I call these
subjective or psychic, others are not directly given to any consciousness and these I term objective or extramental — the concept
of the psychical does not arise in this connection.»
Nonetheless, I should like to suggest that the form
of the holy scriptures
of Himayana, conforming to the more introverted nature
of Himayana piety, is significantly more «
subjective» than that
of the Mahayana writings — a religious literature that constructs a monstrously rich, manifold, variegated, and complicated «objective»
world.