Yet there are other models of religion that lend meaning to existence, and in the majority of this essay, I take up one model that Taylor ignores in A Secular Age, namely that of a God who is immanent in social life throughout religious law. Turning to Maimonides's account of divine ...
Consciousness is in an ontological priority vis-à-vis every appeal and every response to an appeal (this is the meaning of “internal”), hence it is prior to world, thought-constructs, sensation—all the Tattvas—yet united to them as the net of their return-resorption. To abide in ...
Literal language is the actual meaning of a word or phrase, based on the dictionary meaning of the word. Non-literal language is also called figurative language because it is often silly or unrealistic. It goes beyond the dictionary meaning of the words or phrase and often has a different me...
According to Epictetus, god is inside of you, and you are yourself, through your logos-informed proairesis, a fragment of god.32 In prayers, then, the characteristic Stoic fusion of immanence and transcendence – with an immanent ontology but a transcendentally sounding rhetoric – is put to...
Do unconscious phenomena have a meaning? Is this meaning expressed, or expressible, in the form of a wish – like an ‘I want to….’? If so, can we say this meaning ‘exists’ for us to discover, as if it were the contents of the unconscious itself? Or is it merely a fiction ...
What is the meaning of omniscient? Full Definition of omniscient 1 :having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight an omniscient author the narrator seemsan omniscient person who tells us about the characters and their relations— Ira Konigsberg. 2 : possessed of universal or complete knowledge...
the general struggle isfor entropywhich becomes available throughenergytransition.Memory and agencytogether convert suchenergyintoinformation. While the cosmic dawn marks the union of time and space, giving rise to two intertwined entities with independent meaning, measurements of their union areelectromagne...
or scored from libraries’ electronic book catalog, never having made it onto a shelf or a night table. Still, these thrillers of speculative fiction burned a consequential path. Not often for their characters, and rarely for their prose, but for their sense of immanence, crisp technologic...
His language is smooth, clear, beautiful in sound and meaning He also frequently uses symbols and settings to reveal the psychology of the characters. Topics for after-reading discussion: 1) Do you think Brown’s night journey in the forest an actual one or only a dream?
One of the concepts Charles Taylor speaks of inA Secular Ageis our understanding about life today as existing in an immanent frame. Immanent meaning things we can see, feel, and touch, the factual realities of life, the opposite of a transcendent reality. Life without God in the immanent fra...