Sentences with phrase «understanding subjectivity»

For him, phenomenology offers a mean for understanding subjectivity as a mechanism to interconnect with what is around us.

John Cobb, too, has discussed aspects of the nature of man, such as freedom, responsibility, and sin, from a Whiteheadian point of view.151 Like existentialism, he writes, process thought makes subjective categories central to the analysis of man, and it understands subjectivity to be «in a very important sense causa sui,» that is, self - determinative.

I understand all subjectivity to inhere in becoming, while the satisfaction is the attainment of being.

All theories which place «a subject,» as a fixed point of reference and a well determined entity, ahead of the process of experience have, in Whitehead's view, not clearly understood subjectivity.

This is proposed as a roundabout way of evaluating the validity of assuming a unfiorm prior distribution in S, without getting tanlged in the Bayesian subjectivity problem (instead we consider the hopefully more well - understood subjectivity concerning error distributions).

Not exact matches

Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

Regarding the third point: Shalom's objection here is, if I understand him, that Hartshorne invokes God to give «individuals... the desired quality of subjectivity.»

An example of ontic power would be the asymmetrical interdependence of the macroscopic features of the act of speaking, including all the dynamic movement of subjectivity towards understanding that goes with the words, with a whole complex of neuronal activity.

But it doesn't include subjectivity understood as becoming.

By examining the background and the emergence of the concept «subjective aim», we can get some purchase on his understanding of subjectivity.

The original eight categoreal conditions seem to be have been propounded before Whitehead devised subjective aim», so these are scrutinized for their understanding of subjectivity.

Subjectivity can now be understood as becoming, or better, as the unified directing of the becoming.

The initial aim is recognized as the initiation of subjectivity, and concrescence is understood in terms of an enlargement of subjective aim: «The subject completes itself during the process of concrescence by a self - criticism of its own incomplete phases» (PR 244G).

A chair is composed of molecules, and it is molecular events, rather than the chair as a whole that can be understood as the unitary events that have subjectivity.

Nevertheless, it seems to be a very empirical way of beginning to understand the universe, more radically empirical in fact than science is itself.3 Here we are attending not only to the data of sense - perception but also to a much more proximate set of givens — the experiential components of our own subjectivity.

If we view the whole of physical reality as composed of throbs of nonconscious emotion, we can understand how, out of this, there emerged in an evolutionary process the highly complex subjectivity that constitutes our own experience.

Thomas was aware of human beings as subjects and understood both world and God from the point of view of human subjectivity.

God is the «subjectivity of the subjectivity of man» which is understood especially as the «freeing freedom of human freedom ’13 or the «transcending willedness of the will» which is «the ground of every particular self - realization» of the will 14 God is the ground and origin of the will by being the end, the fulfillment toward which it is called.

Subjectivity is injected into even this process of social understanding, but not for the purpose of seeking understanding, for itself alone; rather it believes in and calls for the indivisible salvation of the whole world.39

Now Whitehead expressed his understanding of subjectivity and objectivity in terms of the metaphor of «perishing»: «actual entities «perpetually perish» subjectively, but are immortal objectively.

For Jesus» specific individuality, Cobb suggests that the center of his subjectivity is co-constituted by the divine Logos, understood as the unity of the ideals, aims, and possibilities that God cherishes for the world.

Basically freedom is not the capacity to choose any object or mode of conduct, but the freedom of self - understanding, of saying Yes or No to oneself, the possibility of deciding for or against oneself which corresponds to the knowing subjectivity of man.

Also it would hold to the basic understanding of science that I explained earlier — a self - contained system that excluded any role for subjectivity or God.

I am of the opinion that, as the understanding of historicity itself implies, he is wrong in identifying his authentic ego with his subjectivity.

Convinced as I am that my understanding is genuine, I am bound at the same time to claim that my subjectivity is in a special manner subordinated to its object, and is therefore adequate to it.

When I think I understand some piece of history (e.g. the Reformation), I thereby claim that my understanding of it transcends my subjectivity and temporality, and possesses supra - temporal validity.

In Whiteheadian terms this «That» is understood to be the nonspecific experience of the ultimate process of reality, creativity understood as universal subjectivity.

At this juncture subjectivity was simply understood in terms of the general categoreal obligations, somewhat like Kant's analysis of the Understanding.

Creativity understood as universal subjectivity is such a category.

For concrescence was seen to be inherently temporal, and the contrast between subjectivity and objectivity could be understood as the contrast between present immediacy and past determinateness.

The equivocal understanding is an indispensable complement, especially to account for the self, uniqueness, and subjectivity.

We humans have «life,» «decision» «subjectivity,» and «enjoyment» only in the process of concrescence.7 Thus, creativity's role in accounting for the concrescence of an actual entity has a certain priority over its role in accounting for the transition between actual entities, although a full understanding of either role requires reference to the other.

Voskuil is also by implication opposed to Lewis Ford's understanding of God as an ever - concrescing divine subjectivity which can not be prehended by worldly actual occasions.

It allows us to see secondary qualities as intrinsic aspects of nature rather than the projections of subjectivity that materialism understands them to be.

Our tendency to assume that our feelings can only be understood in terms of the model of subjectivity needs to be challenged.

As we have been urging that historical understanding goes beyond literary and textual criticism in the direction of subjectivity, we have neglected the objectivity which is given our study by the existence of what we may call the phenomenon behind the phenomena.

Again it seems that we are really mostly meant to be experiencing only those things that Katniss herself experiences, which is fine except that allying us so closely with her subjectivity should mean we understand what makes her tick, and when it comes to her interactions with Peeta, we just don't, really.

Coppola waxes poetic on female subjectivity, dreamily detailing the imprisonment of girls whose boys desperately try to understand them.

I understand that educators use a bit of subjectivity in their grades, too, depending on actual class participation, but even that requires lots of discussion with each student and the entire class.

«He understood that his own particularly racial subjectivity was a deeply embedded part of the meaning of the work.»

Garaicoa takes a multidisciplinary approach in his art to address the social, economic, and political issues that affect our construction of subjectivities and understanding of the contemporary global situation.

Seeking to articulate multiple aspects of racialized subjectivities, Alejandro T. Acierto engages histories of racialization through time - based media to understand our current contemporary moment in a «post-racial» America.

Through her art, we understand how subjectivity and its bodies change as they are shaped by the technological condition.»

Both artists understood architecture as a determinant factor in the shaping of one's subjectivity and set out to imagine ways to counter it.

In this exhibition of new figurative work, Cathy Daley deals with the theme of communication and the effect of subjectivity on relationships and understanding.

East Gallery: Turn the Other Cheek In this exhibition of new figurative work, Cathy Daley deals with the theme of communication and the effect of subjectivity on relationships and understanding.

Over the years Thater's work has also shed light on the complexities of animal subjectivity and transformed our understanding of the natural world and the threats it faces as a result of human actions.

Megan Murphy's work uses historical events and locations to construct an understanding of how our contemporary selves and culture are informed by the subjectivity of recorded history, addressing global politics and man's impact on the environment.

Her fiber and ceramic works explore through form, composition, color and texture, ideas of interpretation, understanding, and the subjectivity of the view or gaze.

His claim makes clearer the importance of looking hard and of a willingness to unlearn a few steps of the dance, or simply to accept that not all can be understood without nodding to your own subjectivity.