For Kierkegaard, speculative philosophy remained at odds with the demands of "existence"—the particular qualities and requirements of an individual life.
"His conscious mind, such as it is, is taken up with the more pressing demands of Existence 101," Mr. Maine writes, adding a parenthetical illustration: "(Broken bones take longer to heal when the patient is starving to death. Discuss").
Table 3 A reconceptualization of competing demands Various types of competing demands Features of competing demands Existence of dyad Contradiction Interrelatedness Complementarity Compatibility Simultaneity Push-pull Dilemmas √ × × × × × × Trade-offs √ √ × × √ × √ Dialectics √ √ √ × × × √/× Dualities √ × √ √ √ √ √/× Paradoxes √ √ √ √ √ √ √.
Caro and his wife by then had two sons, and he was trying to balance the peripatetic life of a successful artist with the demands of domestic existence.
Despite a frail voice in a fragile body, distaste for the daily demands of parliamentary existence, and long periods of illness and nervous exhaustion, Tocqueville chose politics as his vocation and adhered to this choice until he was driven from office.
To maintain your energy -- and your sanity -- you need to find creative ways to manage your time so that you can juggle the demands of modern existence while still insuring that your hours and days remain rich and meaningful.
The results of our survey highlight the diversity of crustacean genes that are shared with insects, and also uncovers gene family expansions that likely reflect the demands of aquatic existence, particularly homeostasis, defense/immunity, oxyregulation, and chemical sensing.
In the Greek surface several water problems occurred in the recent years, mainly due to the uneven spatial and temporal distribution of water resources, the uneven spatial and temporal distribution of water demand, the existence of trans-boundary rivers in northern Greece and many Greek Islands that are facing semi-arid conditions.
It avoids the subjectivity that is otherwise introduced when choosing among a small limited number of theoretical distribution shapes to represent natural phenomena: we only demand the existence of a finite number of statistical moments, and do not require knowledge or even the existence of probability density functions for input parameters.
There are popular theories that demand the existence of a bunch of Higgs bosons.
