Sentence examples for the primordial level from inspiring English sources

The phenomenological encounter with Van Gogh's painting undermines the obviousness of the modern worldview by returning us directly to the primordial level of engaged existence in which subject and object have not yet been differentiated.

In the Prose of the World he argues that the primordial level of language must be approached by defining signs, as Saussure does, not as the representations of certain significations, but as the means of differentiation in the verbal chain and of "opposite, relative and negative entities in speech".

As we saw in sections 3.5 6, Heidegger claims that by experiencing the implicitly dynamic tension between earth and world in Van Gogh's painting, we can thereby come to encounter the same primordial level of practical meaning that is unknowingly known by the farmer who uses her shoes "without noticing or reflecting" on them (PLT 34/GA5 19).

"in his one tortured and talented being every conflict of identity imaginable--beginning with race and gender on the most astonishingly primordial level". in her own therapist's office where she discountenances the accusations of pedophilia, saying "he strikes me as presexual".

Variants of the dichotomy between mind and matter range from their fundamental distinction at a primordial level of description to the emergence of mind (consciousness) from the brain as an extremely sophisticated and highly developed material system.

Aesthetics looks for art in the wrong place (at a derivative rather than primordial level of human interaction with the world), and what it finds there is not the true work of art.

China grasps the dangers of chaos on an almost primordial level.

Misled by the presuppositions of modern philosophy, aesthetics overlooks that more primordial level of human existence where, Heidegger will argue, true art inconspicuously accomplishes its ontologically-revolutionary work.

We need it on some primordial level, and if we don't get it and we isolate ourselves, we become angry and the isolation destroys our soul.

As commenter @jbrandimore put it, "Whether we care to admit it or not, men at some primordial level do like to be a knight in shining armor.

Teshuvah has many meanings: On it most primordial level it means to "return"; on a more practical level it means to regret our mistakes and to turn toward goodness.