Sentences with phrase «subjectivist understanding»

Secondly, this psychological - subjectivist understanding of symbolism assumes the primacy of sense perception and the supremacy of clear and distinct ideas.

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I understand the «reformed subjectivist principle» as both naturalizing the human / historical and humanizing the natural — or perhaps better, as seeking an ontological system midway between them and able to account for both.

Deprived of an understanding of reason that transcends science, people are tempted by purely subjectivist attitudes toward their deepest moral and political commitments, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation and cynicism.

Our understanding the symbolic process in terms of the bipolar theory of perception avoids the one - sidedness of an exclusively psychological or subjectivist location of religious symbolism.

Usually symbols are understood in what may be called a subjectivist or psychological sense.