Sentences with phrase «view of character as»

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.
Character, humour, communication style and family goals are just a few of the dimensions we take into consideration, so you can be sure you'll be connected with Pakistani singles who share the same views as you when it really counts.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z