Sentences with phrase «toward novelty»

«By making adjustments to your post-sex routine, you may find that your overall interest in sex increases, as humans are naturally drawn toward novelty.»

Neonatal novelty exposure decreased maternal care toward novelty - exposed pups relative to home - staying siblings.

And, if so, does the world's advance toward novelty justify the presence of evil?

Rather it invites, attracts, lures the cosmos toward novelty of patterned intensity, and is, therefore, the ground of evolutionary adventure and cosmic beauty.

But without an adventurous advance toward novelty and freshness the universe would be frozen into utter sameness.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

The result is the drive toward novelty, fulfillment, and self - transcendence.

The initial aim is a more general, reflecting appetite toward novelty.

In its immanence, this love lures toward novelty and participates in every creative moment.

As a potential, it functions to lure women toward novelty, novelty rooted in actuality.

As «the founder of order and the goal toward novelty,» (PR 88 / 135) God steers the world somewhere between chaos and rigorous structure, between fire and ice.

Not exact matches

God is disclosed as the ground of being, the creative energy that maintains order and provides novelty, the lure toward realizing possibilities.

Indeed, this dual character is precisely the nature of life in its basic organic sense as well as in its religious dimension: an appetitive urge toward what might be, and an inertial contentment with what is: freedom paired with conformity, novelty with repetition.

The feature of evolution which points toward the need for agape is creative growth, that is, the presence of spontaneity and the introduction of unpredictable, intelligible novelty into the process of evolution.

The common principle here is only that each human should be moving toward actualization, with others, in and under the divine Love — a Love, one may be sure, that prefers variety, novelty, and even oddity (if I may say so!)

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

They are the avenues by which the principle of order and novelty lays hold of our consciousness so as to move it toward a deeper and more explicit sensitivity to value.

It is the fact of novelty that pulls our universe toward its adventurous experimentation with fresh forms of order in its evolution.

«23 The aim toward beauty may be frustrated not only by the collapse into disorder as the result of too much novelty, but also by acquiescence in triviality when the appropriation of novelty is relevant.

Therefore, whatever source of power motivates the world process toward emergent novelty would appear to be the ultimate reason that there is the evil of disorder in the world.

Without an aim toward order, movement in the direction of novelty would make the universe drift toward complete chaos.

Adventure is the universes search for continually more intense forms of ordered novelty.5 If the actual world is a process, composed of becoming and perishing occasions then its movement toward integrating these occasions into ever richer modes of order may be called adventure.

In persuading the cosmos toward more complex and intense modes of emergence, however, this transcendent influence leaves itself exposed to the charge that it is responsible for the discord that inevitably accompanies an ingression of novelty into any particular situation of order.

He focuses on the emergence of novelty as it precedes and is presupposed by all conscious reflection and decision, whereas I am speaking of new possibilities introduced by highly reflective consciousness.53 However, I do not wish to press any claim beyond this: Whitehead should not preclude in principle the possibility that a temporal occasion may have toward some eternal object the kind of relation God has toward all.

Respondents first read a news article about the novel pears, then completed a questionnaire that included questions about their attitudes toward the pears, what they think their friends and family think about the idea of buying these products, their novelty - seeking tendencies, whether or not they would buy them, and how much they'd pay for them.

Delving into the relevant neurobiology, Goldberg points to a growing body of evidence that the brain's left hemisphere is oriented toward familiar patterns, whereas the right hemisphere focuses on novelty.

I used to gravitate more toward 50s and early 60s clothing, especially ones with bright novelty prints.

A three - model lineup would go a long way toward establishing the General's novelty brand as the third major force in the world of four - wheeling, right alongside Land Rover and Jeep.

Focusing the store's impulse merchandising on items that offer real value to the pet owner, as opposed to novelty, will go a long way toward inspiring unplanned, higher - margin purchases from food shoppers.

In my mind, 3D is a step toward the holographic ideal, thus it is inevitable that 3D will become the standard of gaming, rather than a novelty.

How your child responds to novelty, the intensity of their responses, the ease with which he or she returns to balance after getting upset, the regularity of cycles of sleep and wakefulness, and if there is grumpiness or an upbeat attitude toward life are some of the elements of temperament that each of us is born with.

When the hormones wear off and the novelty fades, you realize that mature love isn't something that just happens to you: It's something you work toward.