Sentences with phrase «value theory as»

A summary of the major features of the value theory as developed by Whitehead.

Concern with the deepest reaches of relational physical feelings combined with the widest range of conceptual generality in the unity of an act of experience is characteristic of Whitehead's value theory as a whole.

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The focus of classical value and price theory was to free economies from economic rent, defined as unearned income simply resulting from privilege: absentee land rent, mineral and natural resource rent, monopoly rent, and financial interest.

«The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard - form «efficient market» theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore.

The labor theory of value aimed at isolating the economic rent as a margin that either was to be taxed away (for land and natural resources that were privatized) or kept in the public domain (for infrastructure and other natural monopolies).

John Burr Williams in his The Theory of Investment Value, 1938 wrote, «With bonds, as with stocks, prices are determined by marginal opinion.....

Other more technical factors such as the Net - Net Theory and the Margin of Safety Theory also play a part in the value investors method.

I can't say I understand the Z of Z theory, or the theoretical approach you are taking, but I'm interested — as one who values argument (from arg — to shine, build up a shared «shine» — initially argument had positive connotation) I am impressed by the gap separating the «good» that we know and can say, and yet are unable to practice.

Whitehead did work out a complex theory of value, but my point here is only to indicate that Whitehead's way of understanding human beings as part of nature both requires that we extend the ethical discussion and gives us clues as to how to do this.

As a result, the judgments to which that theory gives rise place no value on community.

They tend to regard their models and theories developed from a limited set of data in the actual world as having a value and truth that can then be applied to that world.

Accordingly, economic theory has no place for community or for such values of community as justice.

The approval of self - seeking as rational, built into most economic theory, is a truth that works only when business operates in the context of a community that has other values.

But if land in this broad sense has value as an end in itself, then the economic theory based on land as commodity can not be acceptable.

Teaching Creationism as a scientific theory teaches people to reject the value of evidence and accept dogma and tradition.

Math is a theoretical concept made up by humans (although its basic concepts such as assigning numerical value to things and adding and subtracting are not theory), the same way religion is.

Marxism, according to Solzhenitsyn, blinds humanity to authentic moral illumination because, like many other modern aesthetics, it values experience primarily as food for theory, and it values theory primarily as a means to progress.

As he wrote in «Poetry and Propaganda,» the existence of art surely implies the reality of values, «but that does not take us anywhere, and certainly points to no philosophic theory of value.»

Nevertheless, it is beginning a process of repentance, and I personally insist that as Christians we have strong reasons to oppose the denial by economic theory of any intrinsic value to animals.

Sociological theories of the 1940s and 1950s tended to portray culture as a hierarchy of values that was integrated by higher - order religious values and was internalized by the person, thereby giving unity and direction to the person's behavior.

Finally, these values provide standards in terms of which one can see genuine progress as one looks at a succession of theories in history.

(I now think it a weakness of my original text that so little attention is given to such values as internal and external consistency in considering sources of crisis and factors in theory choice) 33

Modern value theory has emphasized such terms as pleasure and satisfaction.

Pair bonding may not be the best or only way to serve our genes but then there is no reason why we have to accept the so called «selfish gene» theory, that we are of value only as gene carriers (the theory popularised by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.

The fact is that most chaotic motion is not, on limited average, utterly unlike regular or nearly regular behavior, and while this qualitative judgment is very difficult if not impossible to make into mathematically rigorous conclusions, its practical value as a perception is an important starting point for constructive results in the theory.

The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

There is an essential difference between a faith which recognizes responsibility for the universal human community but does not seek to dominate it, and master race theories such as Nazism, or the interesting new Japanese version of Nichiren Buddhism known as Sokka Gakkai (Value - Creating Society).

While Ogden argues to the existence of an ontic whole as the condition of the possibility of our valuing, it not only can be, but also has been argued with similar care that such a reality, understood as the supreme instance» of that «comprehensive moral principle» required to account fully for human evaluation is thereby likewise necessarily presupposed by such evaluation (Franklin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference: Liberal Theories of Independent Associations [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984], chap.

Whitehead provides a complex theory of intrinsic value in Adventures of Ideas, but for present purposes we can single out his term, «strength of beauty,» as the criterion.

This aspect of Whitehead's theory, as we shall point out, is demanded by his metaphysics, and, more specifically, it is a consequence of the fact that for Whitehead truth value is not a part of a proposition as such.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

This exemplifies the principles of ordinality and commensurateness which are the ontological bases for articulating a theory of value as both relative and objective.

For one can not logically conclude that ethical theory is impossible if what was demanded of it, namely absolute values, was not in fact necessary as a minimal condition.

Correlative to his value theory, a definition of God as that Something which is supremely important to the increase of quality or value in human existence (although he wavered in his use of the designation «God» for that Something); 1

We can now define intrinsic value as that which is, in fact, preferred on full disinterested consideration, thus providing a clearer basis for evaluation of the theory of value there developed.

In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5

According to this view, the answer, «You ought so to act as to maximize strength of beauty,» would be without cognitive import even if there were prior acceptance of Whitehead's theory of value.

But I still feel doubtful as to the general value of Whiteheadian theory as a guide for the research biologist, except insofar as it encourages him to doubt the reliability of Lloyd Morgan's «canon» as the sole guide to research at the present day.

The main thrusts of Rank's theory are particularly useful when counseling with persons caught in severe independence - conformity conflicts (such as some adolescents) those who are paralyzed about finishing a project or chapter of their lives (e.g, pre-graduation anxiety attacks) and in danger of sabotaging the successful completion of something they really value; those who are afraid to make decisions or try something new which they want but which may mean giving up old securities; couples who are struggling to find satisfying closeness without either of them losing their identity and autonomy heir lives (e.g., pre-graduation anxiety attacks) and in danger of sabotaging the successful completion of something they really value; those who are afraid to make decisions or try something new which they want but which may mean giving up old securities; couples who are struggling to find satisfying closeness without either of them losing their identity and autonomy.

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Directly opposed to this view is the pragmatic theory which regards theoretical activity as an affair of rationalizations, essentially irrelevant to practice; practice is valued both for its own sake and as more directly contributory than thought can be to the welfare of men and the glory of God.

This distinction is an important one, as the former type of theory reduces the status of the final author of a gospel almost to that of an editor writing at a late period when trustworthy oral traditions were comparatively scarce; the latter type of theory assumes the existence of smaller, but earlier and more valuable written sources, some of which may even be apostolic, which have been combined with considerable oral tradition, of varying historical value, by the final author.

Marx's category of «value,» as in embodied crystalised realised socially necessary average productivity labour theory of value.

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

In Marxist theory, value is not the same as prince, and value is not the same as exchange value or use value.

This is not to suggest that theories about European integration only know one direction — forward — but the value of integration theory has never been on trial as seriously as it is today.

The administration's theory is that larger systems have the scale and expertise necessary to operate an efficient health care facility, as well as negotiate value - based contracts with insurers.

Most applications of the theory of gravity depend only on relative values, such as the ratio of the acceleration of the moon to that of an apple, which can be determined with much greater precision than the absolute value of G.

Decision theory — the tool of management that suggests making optimal choices by summing discounted future values over the probability distribution of all possible outcomes — is of limited usefulness, as are businesses» five - year plans.