But unless this self acknowledges a "power which constituted it," it falls into a despair which undoes its selfhood.
Locke himself acknowledged an innate power of "reflection" (awareness of one's own ideas, sensations, emotions, and so on) as a means of exploiting the materials given by experience as well as a limited realm of a priori (nonexperiential) knowledge, which he nevertheless regarded as "trifling" and essentially empy of content (e.g., "soul is soul" and "every man is an animal").
Once seen as subordinate to his mentor, Stephen N. Adubato, a Newark Democratic power broker, Mr. DiVincenzo, 58, is now acknowledged as a power unto himself.
CHURCH OR FOOTBALL Sunday is a day to acknowledge a higher power, but for many that meant the guys in shoulder pads and hair extensions.
So what you need to do is, if you're an alcoholic, to acknowledge a higher power – it doesn't matter which one – and then you have to cultivate a certain attitude and this will lead you out of your alcoholism, and spirituality is a form of discipline that you practise.
We all acknowledge a certain power of the placebo in treating the "worried well," but do skeptics of homeopathy really believe that a placebo effect is consistently effective to treat all of the serious illnesses that are commonly treated by homeopaths...and for which good double-blind studies show efficacy?
Acknowledging a higher power in an organized setting offers many people satisfaction, relief and strength.
In his classic, "The Intelligent Investor," first published in 1949, he acknowledged: "A great deal of brain power goes into this field, and undoubtedly some people can make money by being good stock market analysts".
But, he acknowledged, "theirs is a power parallel" to that of the state.
