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We are initiating a Teen Research Project for treating BPD teens with appropriate pharmacological interventions, such as Depakote and
with Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Nicole's approach combines the use of Pia Mellody's Developmental Immaturity Model
with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helping clients to develop a deeper understanding of their emotional and behavioral difficulties, whilst offering them tools with which to find new, healthy coping strategies.
In keeping
with his dialectical approach, Vidokle acts alternately as artist, interlocutor, and instigator.
And after he painted the dozens of glass images he came up
with a dialectical composition that unites two...
Later Platonism and Neo-platonism became preoccupied
with the dialectical problems of the Parmenides, and tended to lose the concreteness of Plato's humanistic method.3 We are to probe the meaning of being through considering the forms of human love.
Barfield's conception of the incarnation as a freeing of man, in the course of time, to say the Divine Name («I am...») here coalesces with Altizer's idea that the death of God frees us to see the contemporary reality of a continuing incarnational kenosis leading to a nonhubristic apotheosis of man.15 Barfield has achieved with his metaphorical sensitivity a pre-view of a «final participation» which is the coincidentia oppositorum Altizer was insufficiently able to apprehend
with his dialectical method.
Hegel, who identified philosophy
with dialectical thinking, also believed that philosophy is identical with religion insofar as both must negate the Given: «For religion equally with philosophy refuses to recognize in finitude a veritable being, or something ultimate and absolute, or non-posited, uncreated, and eternal» (Logic, Vol.
Iqbal himself was impressed
with the dialectical ability of Maudoodi; it is said that he called him to the Punjab, where Maudoodi settled in 1357 (A.D. 1938).
Not exact matches
To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible
with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that
dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.
Since Hartshorne's account and defense of the process concept of experience is more sophisticated and detailed than any other yet proposed (
with the possible exception of Whitehead), and yet assumes a form typical of a major current of process thought, I will examine several aspects of Hartshorne's
dialectical concept of experience.
Our purpose in what follows will be to ask ourselves three questions
with regard to the
dialectical scheme, viz.: (1) What are its presuppositions?
There is a
dialectical opposition, but one that is not at all logical, but emotional, having to do
with feeling.
The meaning of Paul's Romans «can not be released save by a creative straining of the sinews, by a relentless, elastic application of the «
dialectical» method 30 I would suggest that Altizer's method is continuous
with, and a fulfillment of, the
dialectical method of Barth's Romans.
With his assumption of a Hegelian metaphysics to explain the self - annihilation of God, he has also adopted a finalism; in short, the
dialectical process aims at an end: God as all in all.
By identifying the
dialectical element that he recognizes in the process of concrescence
with feeling rather than
with logic, Whitehead is able to preserve the integrity of logic, and to avoid what I take to be the Hegelian dual fallacy of both overestimating the power of so - called «reason,» and at the same time encumbering logic
with psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical elements that have no proper place in it.
We began by isolating two problems in the logic and mathematics of Hegel's day which he attempted to deal
with by means of his
dialectical logic.
Today theology is faced
with the overwhelming task of establishing a
dialectical synthesis between a radically profane «subjectivity» (Existenz) and an authentically biblical mode of faith.
Altizer betrays his assumption of a metaphysics when he states, «Hegel's central idea of kenosis, or the universal and
dialectical process of the self - negation of being, provided me
with a conceptual route to a consistently kenotic or self - emptying understanding of the Incarnation, an understanding which I believe has been given a full visionary expression in the work of William Blake.»
Arising out of a process of differentiation from transcendent order, the idea of society stands, from the very moment of its birth, in a
dialectical tension
with the concept of the individual.
They often speak as if bravely weathering the agony of
dialectical conflict were the sole end and purpose of true religious experience,
with harmony and simplicity left to the spiritual amateur and featherweight.
More concretely, the glorification of
dialectical tension in Soloveitchik's case can obscure the extent to which his thinking,
with all its nuance and complexity, does in fact exhibit exceptional coherence, harmony, and integration.
In this chapter the author lays out his utopian proposal for a theological school in «
dialectical tension»
with the Athens and Berlin models.
Throughout his presentation, Ziegler stresses Soloveitchik's insistence that an authentic religious philosophy will always feature powerful
dialectical tension, that genuine religious life is ineluctably pervaded
with dynamic inner conflict.
Even the most awesome and oppressive manifestations of an alien otherness are finally subject to a
dialectical reversal, a reversal that has already occurred in the self - annihilation of God, but only
with the extension of this reversal into every alien sphere will the actualization of the atonement be consummated.
This vision stands within the Christian theosophical tradition of Erigena, Boehme, and Schelling,
with its witness to the
dialectical and historical movements of the Godhead.
«It must be apparent to anyone
with even a little
dialectical skill, that one can not attack the (Hegelian) system from within.
Or, otherwise stated, is Whitehead's cosmological reconciliation of permanence and flux at bottom identical
with Hegel's
dialectical reconciliation of subjectivity and objectivity?
Hartshorne does not often comment on the
dialectical and almost contradictory nature of his di - polar God even when clearly evident as in the following: «God, on the other hand, in his actual or relative aspect, unqualifiedly or
with full effectiveness has or contains us; while in his absolute aspect he is the least inclusive of all individuals» (DR 92).
He insists,
with Kierkegaard and a host of existentialists, that human experience is inherently
dialectical.
Both Marxism and Whitehead take a
dialectical approach to religion
with regard to its relation to society.
There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the
dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one
with the whole universe
with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One
with God.
Students of religion know that the primal forms of religious discourse are by one means or another
dialectical, and thus they must inevitably exist in tension
with the dominant modes of contemporary thought and experience.
For those who hold the
dialectical attitude toward evil, good can not exist in solitary splendour, nor is it opposed by a radically separate evil
with which it has nothing to do.
Consequently,
dialectical thinking is inseparable from the Given which it must oppose; and it can only appear in conjunction
with the manifestation of a Given which itself contains the seeds of its own negation.
The
dialectical tasks of liberation theologies, therefore, make imperative critical collaboration among the various liberation theologies dealing
with the diverse forms of domination in classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism (CLT).
Peterson would probably admit that this statement is an overly
dialectical way of expressing the simpler truth that «a real speaking of God exists meaningfully only
with Christ.»
Thus, according to Jeffery, the people of Damascus and Homs followed the Codex of Miqdad b. al - Aswad, those of Kufa that of Ibn Masud, etc. 7 The recension of Othman then becomes not simply a recopying of Abu Bekr's edition
with the removal of its
dialectical variants, but a strategical canonization of the collection current in Medina, and requiring that all others be destroyed.
Faith and vested interests, as noted below, is a
dialectical relationship in which normativeness may also be associated
with the latter as in the case, for example, of the vested interests of the poor.
Most obviously, such inadequate approaches include those whereby creation is seen as in a
dialectical tension
with the Creator, such as forms of Process Theology and Panentheism.
And how embarrassing it is when my efforts at
dialectical thinking are contrasted
with Zen!
The ways in which this task could be carried out, and the interesting metaphysical revisions and alternatives to which it would lead regarding the central doctrines of process metaphysics, has constituted an interesting discussion and
dialectical tension between Ford and Nobo over the years, to which many of the rest of us have attended
with the greatest interest.
For then it would be open to question whether one is dealing
with a concept which is possible but which can correspond to no possible reality, or rather
with the concept of something truly real.9 In contrast to these different possible
dialectical ways in which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extended.
Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation
with, and in
dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.
In this struggle, the major conflict is
with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both real and imaginary.17 This
dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurred.
This statement is at total odds
with natural law theology... The Thomistic synthesis, which Hittinger clearly represents when he connects natural law to a doctrine of God, unearths the far - reaching background behind the rise of contemporary atheism in
dialectical theology's placing these two revelations in opposition.
Granting this, it also must be stressed that
with Heraclitus
dialectical thinking would not be struggling to overcome the law of contradiction, because reality itself was polemos, eris, enantios.7 Altizer sees
with Cassirer and Heidegger that Seinvergessenheit and the logic - ization of logos came in after Heraclitus, but he insists on using a tainted dialectic which in effect assigns metaphysical primacy to post-Parmenidean concepts of contradiction.
According to this dialectic, ethics and cult are to be relegated to the realm of the law and put in
dialectical contrast
with Jesus, who, as bearer of the good news, brings the long line of promise to completion and thus overcomes the law.
God is identical
with Christ, yes; but this is a
dialectical identity, for it is only insofar as God dissolves himself as God that he is manifest and real as Christ.
It is instructive at this point to contrast Whitehead's metaphysical understanding of the primordial nature of God
with Hegel's
dialectical understanding of Spirit.