Sentences with phrase «unchanging subject»

The ultimate undifferentiated subject of a man's experience, that is, his self, could not be other than the ultimate undifferentiated subject of any other man's experience or, indeed, Brahman itself, the one unchanging subject of all change.

Whitehead's rejection ofthat position was emphatic: «It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned» (PR 29 / 44).

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 29) Neither is the Whiteheadian self an unchanging subject of change.

Furthermore, the notion of the purely numerical identity of an unchanging subject of change seems vague or even incoherent.

It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism, that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice.

Paying homage to Auerbach's 60 - year love affair with London, this major retrospective charts both the painter's changing style and unchanging subjects.

Not exact matches

We argued in May that such a focus upon the personal subject effectively excludes linguistic objectivity - and so the unchanging validity of doctrinal statements.

But the essence of the Hellenistic idea of God is that deity is by nature all that men by nature can not be: God is uncompounded, absolutely simple, hence static (a state identified with perfection), unchanging, subject to no variation, eternal, impassible, unmoved.

A substance, according to the Cartesian tradition, is a subject of change that is itself unchanging except for (a) purely external changes such as location, etc. and (b) its creation or annihilation.

Kolb's «laws» are not something frozen for all time and given to us on unchanging slabs - they are living, growing, responsive reflections of our society, and thereby subject to change.