Sentence examples for recognizes itself as from inspiring English sources

In a first act of becoming self-conscious the Logos recognizes itself as the divine mind (Greek: nous), or divine world reason, which was characterized by the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus as the "Son" who goes forth from the Father.

Finally, it recognizes itself as the bearer of an uninterrupted living tradition of true Christianity that is expressed in its worship, in the lives of the saints, and in the faith of the whole people of God.

Convinced that "true criticism recognizes itself as a mode of memoir", Bloom threads these pages with life stories and memories of a host of "departed" mentors and friends, who live on, for him, in books, and whose ghostly presence brings the literary sublime back down to earth.

Shivani: Google now explicitly recognizes itself as being in the advertising business.

He also says, "True criticism recognizes itself as a mode of memoir".

There are unspoken concerns that American recognition of the Chinese concept would not only imply that Obama is taking a backseat role in the bilateral relationship, but also suggest that the United States recognizes itself as the declining established power in a "Thucydides trap" with rising China.

The United States has never recognized itself as an imperial power, let alone a colonial one.

America, he writes, "is fated to recognize itself as intersection -- no, nothing so plain as intersection -- as coil, pretzel, Gordian knot with a wagging tail".

And so beneath Atticus's style of enlightenment is a kind of bigotry that could not recognize itself as such at the time.

At this stage the infant does not recognize itself as a subject but simply as not-Mother.

Reflection is always secondary, that is, it must recognize itself as founded on a pre-reflective experience of Being that cannot be assimilated, employing the felicitous phrase of Adorno, "without remainder".