What is "individuals"

Usage examples of "individuals".

Right-Hand path has two major and warring camps: the atomists, who study the surfaces of only individuals, and the wholists, who insist that whole systems, and not individuals, are the primary object of study.

And, indeed, the majority of individuals in rational societies still settle in somewhere around the mythic-rational, using all the formidable powers of rationality to prop up a particular, divisive, imperialistic mythology and an aggressively fundamentalistic program of systematic intolerance.

When myths are taken concretely and literally, Campbell says, they serve the mundane function of integrating individuals into the society and worldview of a given culture, and in that ordinary function, he says, they serve no spiritually transcendental or mystical purpose at all, which is true enough.

For Hegel, a rational State in which individuals could realize absolute Spirit acting in and through them in a mutual community.

In any given epoch, some individuals will fall below the norm in their own development, and others will reach quite beyond it.

However, using my map, if typical individuals at the ordinary ego indeed begin to regress, this map would predict the same general sequence as the Grof map: it would predict ego, Freudian, birth, transpersonal.

This would be like saying that no individuals can move beyond the oral stage until they become gourmet cooks.

Campbell, however, is quite right that a very, very few individuals, during the magic and mythic and rational eras, were indeed able to go beyond magic, beyond mythic, and beyond rationalinto the transrational and transpersonal domains.

Instead of repeating myself, I have for this presentation simply chosen four individuals who are especially representative of these stages, and will let them speak for us.

We must suppose rather that it is the perfect image of the whole of which all animalsboth individuals and speciesare parts.

Excellence must needs manifest itself in a corporeal manner, there must be countless individuals such as are those great living beings of which our divine mother, the Earth, is one.

Or, we might say, they are individuals who are not on speaking terms with their parents.

And that showed up in individuals as Subjective Freedom versus Objective Union?

We are suggesting that, in addition to its own insuperable difficulties on both phenomenal and noumenal planes, this literal no-self doctrine is all too easily confused with a borderline worldview, and, indeed, this does especially appeal to individuals who are already having difficulties forming a cohesive self.

American universities, with individuals like Stanley Fish, that dimmest of the postmodern dim bulbs, leading the way.