Likewise, the People in populism are assigned
absoluteness, this being an inviting void which transcends normative language.
This principle is closely connected to the task-related principle of
absoluteness, which will be discussed a little later.
The "sacred" figure of 707 may therefore also symbolize that "modicum of
absoluteness" no combination of pips can abolish.
US BACK OUR SUN, Kentridge spoke of rebellions against colonization as a resistance to the European clock, whose
absoluteness was itself undermined by Einstein's discovery of time's relativity.
This seems simple enough, except that the text renders this description problematic by describing two seemingly contradictory voices: one describes sin as an unprecedented, inexplicable qualitative leap; the other describes how the fragility and anxiety of the self 'provide a context out of which sin arises, seemingly assuaging the
absoluteness of its eruption' (66).
Hick and Knitter point to the example of Christianity, where uniqueness "has come to signify the unique definitiveness,
absoluteness, normativeness, superiority of Christianity in comparison with other religions of the world." (11) It is this sense of uniqueness, the sense of being superior, that needs to be rooted out.
Its adherents not only uphold the absence of God, but claim an infallibility and
absoluteness unseen in the past.
Secularization, in his opinion, means only the separation of belief and politics, and he says that as a result of Islamic immigration Europeans may once again acquire a stronger belief in the
absoluteness of God.
Against pluralist theologians, the author insists on the uniqueness and
absoluteness of Jesus' incarnation; attempts to read that incarnation in a symbolic fashion or as nonunique strike Sonnemans as a potential agnosticism (p.
Simmel is no moral relativist, but he imagines "a supple
absoluteness" to moral judgment.
If we are able to show the
absoluteness of this contingency, says Meillassoux, then contingency itself becomes 'immunized' against the procedure of correlationism to subsume contingency in-itself under contingency for-us (AF 55/75).