That said, a closer look at the full text of Morgan's Priestley Lecture at the University of Birmingham and Hunt's speech at a recent joint Demos — Jubilee Centre conference reveals a more expansive
view of character as both steadfastly laden with values and intrinsically important for a well - rounded, flourishing life.
[16] Wandering Rocks is episode ten of James Joyce's Ulysses, and consists of nineteen short
views of characters as they make their way round Dublin in the afternoon.
Not exact matches
The game has enthralled players and boosted investors»
view of Nintendo's future,
as they bet the group can cash in on a treasure chest
of other lucrative cartoon
characters, from Donkey Kong to Super Mario.
This was exhibited in behavior such
as publicly demeaning the efforts
of co-workers, attacking their
character, barking orders and shutting down any contrarian
views.
He was the inventor
of successful products like bifocal glasses, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove (among others)
as well
as a media magnate where he published several newspapers and his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, in which Franklin used a fictional
character to share his own
views on topics like politics and philosophy.
Groups
of young friends who go to see some
of the more death - focused horror films in vogue
of late will routinely take bets on which stock
character will face a grisly end soonest,
as when
viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex
of the set - piece disaster horror movie
as orchestrated by MacGyver.
More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay
character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be
viewed either
as a reflection
of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up
viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.
Nearly all other notices
of God's activity are found in the speech
of the
characters as if to reveal their growing awareness
of what the storyteller has told the reader; God is present and active, even when God remains hidden from
view.
Reflection characteristically happens from the underside
of society itself, or with a
view to reality
as experienced there, thus reinforcing theology's socio - critical
character.
Departing from the
view of human
character as a given «nature,» McCabe argued that
character is never so fixed and certain
as to be unsusceptible
of new and different determinations from the inexhaustible source and depth
of free will» (FG 420).
Even
as an atheist I can still say that Jesus taught a lot
of wise things and was a compas.sionate
character, but there is nothing
of Jesus» admirable qualities in your
view.
Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged —
as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the
characters whose points
of view they've done their best to assume.
rather than
viewing each individual
character or incident
as only an instance
of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.
I
view the Bible
as a book
of information and instruction from God, that helps me to understand something
of him, his
character and purposes.
But his answer diverges in two ways: (i) In speaking
of «lateral tensions»
as having some influence on what each natural moment passes on to later moments, Santayana is in conflict with Whitehead's
view that in its process
of becoming an actual occasion is causally quite detached from its contemporaries, and operates privately upon the past occasions which have entered into it in order to produce that over-all
character which it will pass on to later occasions.
Such Q texts do not yet have in
view Jesus
as the Judge but rather envisage him, among the
character witnesses who testify,
as the crucial one in the
view of the Judge.
It appears in a different form partly because the problem
of social continuity has become
as great for us
as the problem
of change and reform, but even more because the historical, cultural
character of human existence has come into fuller
view.
But the problem is frequently much more difficult,
as psychologists (Jung) and social philosophers (Nietzsche, Sorel, Pareto, Spengler) have shown that the analysis
of the social conditioning
of ideas and convictions, though in itself not entitling to decisions
as to their validity or invalidity, may contribute to the realization
of the partial
character of views or intentions expressed in them.
Hartshorne
views the interrelationship
as follows: Our present moment
of existence is dependent upon God's abstract
character of inevitably knowing whatever exists, but not vice versa.
@Twin — A good deal
of the bible would make more sense if the reader
viewed the
character of god
as some sort
of anti-human bigot.
Both have their own irreducible essential
character, which can only be posited indivisibly, but can not be
viewed as formed by the combination
of other similar elementary parts.
Here we see unknown writers in the hills
of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point
of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded
as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those
of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls
of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds
of old pots,
as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew
characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.
As I see it, Bell has the intention to give insight into the
character of God, but I find his
view difficult to defend from a biblical perspective.
And Paul's
view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical
view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical
character, so long
as it is the only
view of man which takes adequate account
of this inescapable reality
of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession
of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts
of sin and that I deserve to die because
of them.
Because the crisis
of decision in the present moment gives man his essential
character, he can not console or justify himself by
viewing his sin
as a weakness which forms no part
of his true nature, or
as a mistake which is an exception to be outweighed by appealing to his normal self.
As social scientists assist pastor and people in developing a rich fund
of the stories, traditions, world
views,
character, symbols, and rituals
of a congregation, chances for God's Word impacting the congregation in profound ways are greatly enhanced.
The
view of Jesus
as a great
character or a hero is simply the opposite
of Jesus» conception
of man; for man
as a «
character» has his centre in himself, and the hero relies on himself; in this the greatness
of the man consists; this is the esthetic point
of view.
«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line
of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the
view that interprets the
character of becoming
as illusory and becoming itself
as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.
Since the Word
of God is described
as a double - edged sword which man can not control, Bonhoeffer's
view seems out
of character with his overall position.
But he sees this
as a problem, and so he must be metaphysical
as well
as phenomenalistic about it — he wants a
view of why a later stage in a process should carry forward a
character inherited from an earlier stage.
However, its understanding
of character and virtue would be considerably different from the traditional Hellenistic
view and its offspring
as well
as the substantialist presuppositions
of the contemporary discussion.
But the problem is some people's
view has a lot
of make - believe
characters that lawyers and politicians from hundreds
of years ago sold
as something it wasn't.
Here St. Augustine's realistic
view of political life is
of such
character that Reinhold Niebuhr can call him the wisest political philosopher in Christian history.24 What St. Augustine does is to see the way
of love in history
as requiring the adjustment
of life to political necessities.
First, there is the
view of «prehensions,»
of causation
as not so much a transmission from the past
as a picking up
of a
character, and in the later works, a «feeling»
of an immediate predecessor by an actual entity in the present, when the predecessor has perished.
Action loses its absolute
character as the moment
of decision, when subordinated to the
view - point
of the end, the ideal.
However, the use
of Andrews's point
of view forces the reader to experience some
of the
character's elation
as he approaches his end.
Apart from some traditional philosophical influences, this is due mainly to the fact that relativity excluded the universal cosmic «Now»
as the substratum
of absolute simultaneity; and since such «Now» was naturally
viewed as a boundary between past and future events, its elimination was interpreted
as a denial
of the successive
character of the world.
In fact such a
view misunderstands the
character of celibacy
as vocation, which is never to be confused with mere abstinence nor founded upon some «natural» inclination.
At the same time, modern attempts to construct a
view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible
as history and often lack distinctive Christian
character.
So if he does something heelish to me I don't
view that
as being out
of character for him.
The Pride
of St. Louis, starring my late uncle, Dan Dailey,
as Dizzy Dean, could be
viewed as a «soupy biography» or, in a better light,
as a sympathetic portrait
of a true American
character.
I realised, I had a somewhat blind
view of motherhood and
as quick
as the
character «the flash», I gained a much broader insight into my new role.
Some
view it
as a bold play that will fundamentally alter the shape and
character of his party.
The
view of «Israel»
as a monoculture with a single desire to protect Israeli interests at all costs doesn't look entirely unlike 1930s European characterisations
of Jews
as a fifth column with no local loyalty or diversity
of character.
«This development
as currently proposed threatens not just a landmarked
view but the
character of a diverse residential neighborhood and the public's enjoyment
of a treasured public amenity,» Ritter said.
For example, a person with autism who is
viewing a movie
of people in a room will spend a relatively large amount
of time looking at non-social objects — such
as chairs — and is more likely to look at the mouths or bodies
of the
characters than their eyes.
It was noteworthy that,
as compared with the exhibitions
of previous years, the collection
of exhibits on
view was more or less international in
character.
But in a culture that tends to venerate free will and
view poverty
as evidence
of weak
character and moral breakdown, the emerging insights face an uncertain road to acceptance.
In
view of the limited amount
of material needed for such a power reactor, and
of the spectacular
character and difficulty
of the steps necessary to divert it, we would regard such power reactors
as safe provided there were a minimum
of reasonable supervision
of their design, construction, and operation.
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