Sentence examples for existential knowledge from inspiring English sources

He has tried to show the place existential knowledge has in an age of scientific, empirical thought.

People, Wallace suggested in that immensely sad novel, needed to be distracted from the "deeper type of pain that is always there," namely the existential knowledge that "we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back".

On the existential reading, knowledge is set over what exists; belief is set over what exists and does not exist.

They transferred their personal spiritual and existential care knowledge by participating actively in patient care together with the care workers.

The team members transferred their personal spiritual and existential care knowledge through situated "bedside teaching" and reflective dialogues.

Second, then, as the foundations of dogma and doctrinal orthodoxy, revealed truth-claims eliminate the self-critical and communicative aspect of human reason, and they undermine the dialogical preconditions of transcendence and existential self-knowledge.

With that acute knowledge come more existential thoughts, which are sharpest as she lies awake in the small hours of the night.

Since all levels of intellect are connected, knowledge is an existential relationship of identity and the cognition of certainty in which the intellecting subject becomes identified with the intellected object (ittihad al-'aqil wa-l-ma'qul).

That being said, religious scripture has been the world's most influential cultural guardian and transmitter of aesthetic vision, existential wisdom, ethical instruction, and knowledge of God, what the theologian Tillich described as Ultimate Concerns.

Still, though, I lived in constant terror, and not even because of the gaping canyons in my legal knowledge, rather the omnipresent existential threat.

Person, place and time – the three fundamental dimensions of orientation, the nuggets of knowledge that keep our existential feet on the ground.