The anima mundi, the world soul, is no longer part of our collective consciousness, even though for centuries it was understood as the root of everything sacred in creation.
His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
First, while there are certainly many people who form their opinions about religion by irrational means, and who hold irrational religious beliefs, there are also many who "form opinions about religion on the basis of reason" and conclude that there is a God, perhaps even as this being is understood within one of the major religious traditions.
Both of them resented a media that Trump seemed to understand intuitively, even as it was reporting on how this or that mistake was, finally, the end for him.
He understood the specialness of the season even as it was taking place before his eyes.
We need to work on human memory -- and whether it's in business where we need to link the "karma and desire" or in our personal lives where we need to learn that our memories are often faulty -- at best - and even so should be understood as "mindful" -- a guide if you will -- not the be-all and end-all.
Medicine remains a science of uncertainty; even these acronyms are understood as being probability statements rather than absolute designations.
But what's the value in the song — even if it's flawed, even if it's to be understood not as a question but an answer?
Even if a term is understood as purely descriptive, it may still be the case that it usually, or always, goes along with a positive or negative moral assessment.
Such things as the description of homosexuality as an "objective moral evil" are tolerable only so long as "objective", "moral" and even "evil" are understood as theological terms of art, and theology is understood to have nothing to do with our human needs and understandings.
This implies that even if dual practice is understood as satisfying overall, it may not prove sustainable in the long-run.
