| Chategories |
| |
|
|
| |
 |
| |
|
Objective Picture Of His: There is then a strong cultural context to people's ideas about God and the qualities that are attributed to him. In this context the question becomes one of how far God is an independent reality that is a source of experience for believers and how far 'he' is a human construction based on some vague sense of a non material reality along with a collection of cultural, social and moral beliefs. Whether God is an external reality, or a human construction, does not necessarily make his 'reality' any less objective. God may have objective reality in the same way as we might assert objective meaning to a work of art.
In any study of evolution the identification of natural populations is imperative, because animals cannot really be studied in any scientific way without a taxonomy. One of the serious weaknesses in taxonomy, however, is the lack of objective criteria in the definition of populations and in the determination of evolutionary relationships. With the increasing interest among biologists in quantification, there has been an effort to develop more objective approaches to taxonomy.
In the accounts of his Italian sojourn the element of the personal memoir is larger, but letters and other contemporaneous materials have been so revised and ordered as to give an objective picture of his broad interests and to show their central importance in his total development. For the French campaigns the method is rather that of the historical memoirist, placing Goethe's experiences of 1792 and 1793—including his intellectual ones—in large military and political contexts that only later became discernible. |
|
