Symbol and Metaphor in Human Experience

abstract antinomies arbitrary Aristotle artist atoms becomes bodily body caesura character concept consciousness consonance and dissonance contingent continuum creation creative process deficiency Democritus Descartes detached divine dynamic element emphasize entelechy entity environment equally eternal ethics Eudaimonia existence expedient expression fact feeling finite fixed symbols force freedom fulfillment future goal ground Heraclitus human indivisible interpretation Kant law of obligations Leibniz limited living means melody ment merely meta metaphorical process metaphorical tension Metaphysics movement myth nature necessary necessity never Nicomachean Ethics object organization overcome paradox Peripeteia person philosophy phorical Plato pleasure poetry potential prayer praying predicate present problem proposition rational rationalist realm reflection regard relation religion religious repetition represents rhythm ritual sensuous simile spatial sphere Spinoza spiritual symbolic fixation symbolic reduction teleology temporal tendency things Thou totality tragedy transcendence transform true truth understanding unique unity Upanishad whole words