It's Mammon that comes closest to Milton's own – this puritan ethos of disciplined liberty, hard work, and this kind of absolute self-sufficiency.
Where Abella excels is in his descriptions of the colorful characters who populated RAND at its inception, like the mathematician John Davis Williams, who "personified what would become hallmarks of RANDites — a love of pleasures of the flesh, a dedication to abstract theory, and a sense of absolute self-righteousness married to an amoral approach to politics and policy".
As absolute nothingness, God is the dynamic principle of affirmation by way of absolute self-negation.
The self, as being-in-the-world, ultimately realizes itself in a moment of absolute self-negation where it dies to itself and stands as a "non-ego" or "hollow-being" in the "hollow-expanse" which envelopes the horizonal life-world.
Lyanna Mormont, may be four feet tall, but her scowls of absolute self-confidence shatter the certitude that she hasn't even gone through puberty.
Within the final 30 seconds, a seemingly exhausted orchestra chugs back to life one last time before spitting out several hammerblows to the heart, ending in a definitive burst of absolute self-destruction.
Tanabe's passing dismissal of Nishida's terminology here is hardly convincing, since in fact Nishida too speaks of the absolute self-negation of absolute nothingness and of the existential death and resurrection of the finite self.
When it comes to a sense of fixed or absolute self -- and some might say there's no absolute in Zen save reality -- this all makes, of course, for a very strong sense of relational self.
What do we make of the curtailing of revenge, the shift among from absolute self-interest, the rejection of a tribalism we still practice today.
He's reasserting Satan's sublime but, of course, completely disastrous bid for something like an absolute self- sufficiency.
Clark played two songs on a cherry red Jaguar-style guitaccompanyingying herself by stamping her feet in their sharp-toed, girlish shoes, singing and playing with a combination of artlessness and absolute self-awareness that made even her rowdiest admirers hold their breath.
