Sentences with phrase «understanding of actuality»

The key claims are these: first, actuality in a process metaphysics is not the paradigm case of reality, and, second, a full understanding of actuality requires reference to potentiality.

Is this doctrine grounded in a religious apprehension of the togetherness of the universe, leading to an understanding of actuality as complete togetherness — «togetherness of otherwise isolated eternal objects, and togetherness of all actual occasions» (SMW 251)?

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humberto - you do understand that accepting the concept of a god is contradictory to any belief or actuality of «free will».

Insofar as «form,» thus understood as a real ground, brings a natural entity, or more exactly, its «matter,» to its requisite definiteness, it must be regarded as the ground of the actuality of the entity.

Hence, if we wish to understand the meaning of manhood we must look to the movement from potentiality to actuality; we must seek to understand something of what psychologists would call «the dynamics of personality».

Whitehead insisted that «this final phase of passage in God's nature is ever enlarging itself» (PR 530 — italics mine), that it is «an unresting advance beyond itself» (PR 531 — italics mine), that «the actuality of God must also be understood as a multiplicity of actual components in process of creation (PR 531 — italics mine) and that «in every respect God and the World move conversely to each other in respect to their process» (PR 529 — italics mine).

Now, in what sense is an occasion's universe — understood as a community of settled, or completed, actualities — immanent in the occasion itself?

We agree that the distinction of actuality and potentiality is crucial for understanding the extensive continuum in its relation to past, present, and future.

My view of the possibility of regional inclusion of standpoints rests on the understanding that this potentiality for division precedes the actuality of division by actual entities.

Thus the actuality of God must also be understood as a multiplicity of actual components in process of creation» (PR 531; italics added).

Then it is no longer enough to say that Jesus Christ is the interpretative key for our understanding of the totality of experience; our understanding of worldly actualities also enriches and completes our grasp of who he is.

As his mind turned increasingly to philosophy, the physicist in him sought to understand the whole of reality and not only man, whilst the aesthete in him interpreted all reality by extrapolation from human experience, thus finding aesthetic value in all actuality.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

The «relatin rationis» of God to all created events in the universe is another way of stating this noncoercive Divine Presence or Mystery grounding all cosmic and human actualities, beckoning human freedom towards noncoercive world and self understanding and acting.

Neither man, however, had what Plato, also enthusiastic about mathematics, did have, a sagacious understanding of the difference between mathematical concepts and concrete actualities.

This deficiency, as it must seem to us, was in actuality related to Israel's major attainment in the understanding of personality.

How can this universal actuality of sin against God in whose image we are created be understood?

But if the Trinity be understood in a purely economic sense, so that the distinctions correspond only to aspects of God manifested in His activities of creation, revelation, inspiration or the like, then there are no eternal relations of self - giving within the divine life of Absolute Actuality.

Even if my speculations are fully warranted by Whitehead's understanding of the extensive continuum, it should be clearly understood that these considerations argue only for the possibility of life after death, not at all for its actuality.

In the recognition, that contemplation and reflection are the distance of eternity away from time and actuality, there is indeed a truth: the knower can understand that truth, but he can not understand himself.

- He... is understood to be continually in process of self - creation, synthesizing in each new moment of his experience the whole of achieved actuality with the plenitude of possibility as yet unrealized.

Here we can best understand Whitehead's point by analogy with works of the imagination, since this fourth way calls upon the resources of conceptual possibility to heal the wounds inflicted by actuality.

Unless Griffin demonstrates that we are not justified in not broadening our «understanding of experience,» he has not demonstrated what he needs to demonstrate: that others can not justifiably reject his argument — can not justifiably reject his basis for maintaining that no actuality can be totally devoid of power of self - determination.

We are instead inclined to suppose that actuality, understood under the category of becoming, is not only the momentary becoming of what is completely determinate, but that it is, moreover, shot through with a multiplicity of indeterminate possibilities.

Faith, then, can be understood as a total valuational response to the qualitative structure of another actuality prior to any clear specification about what is in fact good or bad, trustworthy or untrustworthy about the other actuality.

The nineteenth century saw the reality of the «historical facts» as consisting largely in names, places, dates, occurrences, sequences, causes, effects — things which fall far short of being the actuality of history, if one understands by history the distinctively human, creative, unique, purposeful, which distinguishes man from nature.

Hence, the insoluble problem of all dualisms, understanding how two totally different kinds of actualities can causally interact, is avoided.

If so, perhaps our only way of understanding it is through the language and vision of Buddhism, for only here may we encounter a coincidentia oppositorum which is manifest at the center of actuality.

We can still speak of interpretation because, on the one hand, the mystery contained in the book is made explicit in out experience and its actuality is confirmed here, and because, on the other hand, we understand ourselves in the mirror of the word.

When Hartshorne speaks, then, of metaphysical factors common to all possibilities, we understand him to be referring chiefly to factors any conceivable actuality (more accurately, any concrete singular or particular) will exhibit, not to factors which characterize possibilities or abstractions as such.

Perception in the mode of causal efficacy understood as the interrelatedness of the universe as it impinges upon the individual without the specificity and clarity of presentational immediacy could yield an experience of an unqualifiable unity at the base of all existence as one perceived the actuality of concrescence.

The middle concept sees the divine actuality primarily in terms of God's becoming, although understood nontemporally.

At that time actuality was understood purely in terms of the concrete determinateness which an occasion had achieved, not in terms of its concrescence.

23 The kingdom of heaven, as Whitehead understands it, is the perfected actuality of God as incorporating within himself the ongoing process of the world.

Perhaps, it is best understood as that pneumopathology, that infection of the spirit, that inhibits and interrupts and acts on the transition of the modes of being from potentiality to actuality revealed in the mode of «time and temporal existence.»

As Felt points out, the problem is to show how epistemological and ontological aspects of particular actualities can be understood together.

But its positive strength is (1) to provide an understanding of God's identity as an individual through abstractions alone («This does not imply that God is a merely abstract entity, but only that what makes God God and no other individual is abstract «15), and (2) more specifically, to identify God as the sole individual with strictly universal functions, defined with relation to actuality as such and with respect to possibility as such.

«If we understand the exhibition as a form of communication, it does not simply comment on actualities in our society such as widespread discrimination, bias or deliberate misinformation, but rather it presents a complex view of the real, with no one dominant view, a reality formed by a vibrant and brilliant multitude of perspectives» said Delahunty.

He (along with a few of his other Cubist colleagues) also played with trompe l'oeil, but he understood this wasn't the same thing — a device rather than an actuality or contending force.

To think about the actuality and future of photography means to understand it as a subjunctive, in which within the framework of the exhibition and publication various artistic practices are discussed.

I received interesting comments from AGW proponents and sceptics alike which showed an astonishing range of differing interpretations and understandings of the greenhouse effect none of which bore much relation to the actuality.

There are many interesting comments from proponents of human caused climate change (AGW or anthropogenic global warming) and from sceptics which show an astonishing range of differing interpretations and understandings of the so called Greenhouse Effect none of which bear much relation to the actuality.

From my experience watching the climate science issue advance over the years, what I continually see is people, like yourself who have clear expertise in a specific area, believing that they understand the entire breadth of the climate change issue when, in actuality, they understand very little of the other broader elements of the global climate system that come into play.

In other words, no recruiter would want to hire an individual who does not labor enough to understand the actualities of a problem / issue.