Sentences with phrase «terms of eros»

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Similarly, in the last section of Adventures of Ideas, having spoken throughout of the primordial nature of God (in terms of the supreme «Eros» of the Universe), Whitehead adds that the feeling of Transcendence

Whitehead has chosen to couch his whole philosophical discussion in the book in Platonic terms and to adopt «Eros» as the term for the primordial nature of God.

The translators [of the Septuagint] probably chose this term because its use was less common and its meaning more unspecified than either philia or eros.

In theological terms, this community is the concrete content of the «kingdom of God,» conceived as the totality of settled fact with an eros toward the future.

Whether I speak in terms of what is considered to be important in terms of sexuality (or pretentiously called eros), or whether I present it in terms of a Brian De Palma movie about fate, apparently I must present it terms of the Republicans seeking the nomination in order to be take seriously.

Yet he remained squarely within the modern horizon, recasting the meaning of eros in terms of the modern isolated subject.

It would be foolish to engage here in either a definition or an analysis of the terms, eros and agape.

These two points, that the creative process includes the lure of a telos and that the agent of creativity is responsible for its activity, serve as a basis for the suggestion that self - determination in creative processes can be conceived in terms of two notions familiar to the philosophical tradition: eros and agape.

[157] Her award - winning first book, Journeys by Heart (1988), essentially blew the work of Anders Nygren on Agape and Eros out of the water by reversing the terms: God's love is not agapic, but erotic.

Eros thus provided another set of cultural actions designated by the term of thickening.

We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

In terms of the beliefs about love, based on John Alan Lee's six attitudinal styles of love — Eros (erotic), Pragma (rational), Ludus (game play), Storge (friendship), Mania (passionate) and Agape (altruistic)(De Andrade & Garcia, 2014, Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986)-- studies in various cultures indicate that men tend to have a predominant outgoing and adventurous style in their romantic interactions (ludus), while women possess more rational (pragma), friendly and companion (storge), intense and uncontrolled (mania) profiles than men (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1995, 2000; Sprecher & Toro - Morn, 2002).

Le and Agnew (2003) argued that commitment, (which generally maintains the relationship over time), and intimacy evolve more slowly but become more significant at the later stages, providing a long - term romantic relationship with an entirely different character from the unstable and intense feelings of its beginning suggesting it is Mania not Eros that fades over time.

In psychological terms, Eros, the sustaining and uniting principle of life, also referred to as libido, is postulated to have a counterpart, Thanatos, or the «death instinct,» which seeks to terminate and disintegrate life.