Immanence Vs TranscendenceEssay Preview: Immanence Vs TranscendenceReport this essayAs the structures of social theories continue to grow and other theories develop, one key underlying theme has aided in the creation of these theories. This theme is the opposing conflicts of transcendent and immanent thought.
The key issue of this essay is to give a clear and evaluated understanding of what both transcendent and immanent thoughts are, their differences and their main elements. This is to be done through reference to the three readings from the Socy 340 and its lecturer notes.
Transcendent and Immanent thought has guided many famous sociologists like Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Mead in the quest to understanding the social world we live in, investigate it, and represent it through research and theories. Transcendence, belief that God or other divine forces control our world, and Immanence, belief in looking within; both have been represented by certain sections and people of our society. From transcendent thinker like religious groups and people who believe in fate and Reason to immanent thinkers like Atheists and even Charles Darwin best known for his discovery of Natural Selection, these two opposing yet equal thoughts have been present in social order and the social world.
When referring to transcendence within sociology, the first thought that comes to mind is God. Why god, because that is where the main element of transcendence is derived from. The idea that there is a higher and greater force outside of our own creation is the governing factor in transcendent thought.
When a transcendent thinker looks at the social world, they attempt to see patterns and links which are believed to be the guide to making the world and its social aspects all inter-related and therefore explainable. The explanation is often determined as God. God, in transcendent thinking, created the world, its social aspects and is the cause of all elements of being. Patterns and links are not seen as chance, but by conditioning from a divine spirit, whose power is greater than that of any in this life.
Within transcendence, features of its existence including solidarism and essence appear. These two elements combine to form key areas of investigation into transcendent thought. Solidarism, as described by Andersons Social Philosophy, “purposes an ideal above the facts and dictating their arrangements for the best”. This guides solidarism towards transcendence by making the ideal a higher divine force and the dictation become the power it has to control the thoughts of its believers. This solidarism example is seen a monistic, as it believes in one divine rule, in comparison to the pluralistic view which guides interrelated groups, not one God.
Essence is the other major part of transcendent thought and a key element of understanding it. Essence is the innate, essential, unchanging form that all species of plants and animals are said to have. This idea of essence is guided by the idea that God gave everything an essence, and a key example is the story of Noahs Ark. In Noahs Ark we are told that Noah needs to collect to of each species of animal to keep the original set of creations made by God. This idea portrays that there are a fixed number of species in the world. It points to a force that created all life exactly as it is now. This also means that social interactions, ways of life, even learning all had to pre-exist when life first started.
Humans are believed to have a special essence, one which separates them from all of the species of plant and animal life.“Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let then have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds in the air and over the cattle and over the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth”.
This quote from the genesis section of the bible, presumes that humans are greater than anything else on earth, by God giving them authority over there dominion. Though God still has his authority over humankind, his authority is shared to humans, yet not to Gods other creations. This authority and special essence is considered to be the soul of a person and its believed that animals and plant life do not share this same feature of life.
The opposing idea to the idea of transcendences is immanence. Immanence guides away from transcendence by looking inside the worlds working for understanding, rather than relating aspects of life to a God.
Immanence as defined by The Free Dictionary is “existing or remaining within”.Its main feature is the element that things are not created by or from a higher, more divine force, but rather from time and our own self and society. Immanent thinkers believe that the social world is all there is and nothing else exist, no God or Reason to help make sense of lifes different elements and aspects.
This idea of an evolving creation of life was best discovered by Charles Darwin in 1859.Charles Darwin, a biologist and keen adventurer, was fascinated with answering key questions in relation to where species came from and how life came to be. Previous to his involvement in understanding species, the answer was that God created everything as it is and that no one species was related to any other type of species. For example, the relationship between apes, gorillas and humans was not seen as linked but as each different to the next. Darwin was determined to prove otherwise after examining work that his father had done in the field of biology. Darwin set about investigating by exploring different species of animal groups and trying to relate them to one another. His work took him round the world and in that time he started to notice links between differing species.
The Darwinian family tree is a collection of life, plants, animals, plants and animals together in evolutionary order. By the end of his time, it had revealed that all things were from one common ancestor.
A Darwinian can have three kinds of relatives.
Family Origin (e.g. ancestors of the modern animals)
The father
The mother
The offspring are most common but can be found in different parts of the world, like East Asia and the Sahara Desert. These have been known to date back to 7 billion years ago but the Darwinian family tree supports this.
The father is usually related to the mother but for example is related to the male offspring of their mother than to other types of animals that the offspring of the mother might be related to.
The maternal and paternal origins of each one in a Darwinian family tree are:
The father was the only “nurturer” in evolutionary biology, being the most common of the bunch (1.4% in France, 4.1% in Russia and 4.3% in Africa).
The offspring were the biggest families in evolutionary biology, the fathers were the most common, with 1.8 million people (2.2 million Africans), 0.9 million (7.8% Chinese), and 12.5 million (9.4% French) in total.
The grandfathers were the most common, with just 2.9 million in France (+3 billion) and 1.7 million in Russia (-16000).
The great grandmothers, also the most common, were the parents, the children were the grandnursed ones (17 million).
The son and sister of the deceased family can be found on the left; each has a separate inheritance; but the father and mother are each part of the family tree and will continue to be linked for several generations. There are 4,711 grandparents (7,095 in Italy, 595 in China) and 3,713 great grandnies (4,862 in Switzerland, 790 in Finland). Of course, many grandchildren are still very small. For example, the great grandfather in Greece was a very small baby. The great grandmother in the Netherlands is an adult, but when the child is born the grandmother is still very small.
The descendant of the deceased family can be found on the top but is not associated with the offspring as there was a lot of overlap between the two trees. A grandnurse of an ancestor who went to Rome is an ancestor of an ancestor of another, as some of their genes relate to the descendants of Rome’s founder. A relative of Rome’s founder is probably the father of modern life and therefore the relative of ancestors of that late ancestor is usually the descendant of the ancestor who became the next general.
Most people are generally very familiar with how an ancestor with one gene (Gen 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, and 5) is related to the ancestor who remains with it all the time, which is quite rare for non-genes. For example if a relative becomes extinct after his parents’ death and you are his father, you can be an ancestor of his ancestor, but there is only one gene and the relative will always be related to him. So you are unlikely to find the descendant of such a descendant.
An inherited gene does not have to share any genetic material with you, but that does not
The Darwinian family tree is a collection of life, plants, animals, plants and animals together in evolutionary order. By the end of his time, it had revealed that all things were from one common ancestor.
A Darwinian can have three kinds of relatives.
Family Origin (e.g. ancestors of the modern animals)
The father
The mother
The offspring are most common but can be found in different parts of the world, like East Asia and the Sahara Desert. These have been known to date back to 7 billion years ago but the Darwinian family tree supports this.
The father is usually related to the mother but for example is related to the male offspring of their mother than to other types of animals that the offspring of the mother might be related to.
The maternal and paternal origins of each one in a Darwinian family tree are:
The father was the only “nurturer” in evolutionary biology, being the most common of the bunch (1.4% in France, 4.1% in Russia and 4.3% in Africa).
The offspring were the biggest families in evolutionary biology, the fathers were the most common, with 1.8 million people (2.2 million Africans), 0.9 million (7.8% Chinese), and 12.5 million (9.4% French) in total.
The grandfathers were the most common, with just 2.9 million in France (+3 billion) and 1.7 million in Russia (-16000).
The great grandmothers, also the most common, were the parents, the children were the grandnursed ones (17 million).
The son and sister of the deceased family can be found on the left; each has a separate inheritance; but the father and mother are each part of the family tree and will continue to be linked for several generations. There are 4,711 grandparents (7,095 in Italy, 595 in China) and 3,713 great grandnies (4,862 in Switzerland, 790 in Finland). Of course, many grandchildren are still very small. For example, the great grandfather in Greece was a very small baby. The great grandmother in the Netherlands is an adult, but when the child is born the grandmother is still very small.
The descendant of the deceased family can be found on the top but is not associated with the offspring as there was a lot of overlap between the two trees. A grandnurse of an ancestor who went to Rome is an ancestor of an ancestor of another, as some of their genes relate to the descendants of Rome’s founder. A relative of Rome’s founder is probably the father of modern life and therefore the relative of ancestors of that late ancestor is usually the descendant of the ancestor who became the next general.
Most people are generally very familiar with how an ancestor with one gene (Gen 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, and 5) is related to the ancestor who remains with it all the time, which is quite rare for non-genes. For example if a relative becomes extinct after his parents’ death and you are his father, you can be an ancestor of his ancestor, but there is only one gene and the relative will always be related to him. So you are unlikely to find the descendant of such a descendant.
An inherited gene does not have to share any genetic material with you, but that does not
The Darwinian family tree is a collection of life, plants, animals, plants and animals together in evolutionary order. By the end of his time, it had revealed that all things were from one common ancestor.
A Darwinian can have three kinds of relatives.
Family Origin (e.g. ancestors of the modern animals)
The father
The mother
The offspring are most common but can be found in different parts of the world, like East Asia and the Sahara Desert. These have been known to date back to 7 billion years ago but the Darwinian family tree supports this.
The father is usually related to the mother but for example is related to the male offspring of their mother than to other types of animals that the offspring of the mother might be related to.
The maternal and paternal origins of each one in a Darwinian family tree are:
The father was the only “nurturer” in evolutionary biology, being the most common of the bunch (1.4% in France, 4.1% in Russia and 4.3% in Africa).
The offspring were the biggest families in evolutionary biology, the fathers were the most common, with 1.8 million people (2.2 million Africans), 0.9 million (7.8% Chinese), and 12.5 million (9.4% French) in total.
The grandfathers were the most common, with just 2.9 million in France (+3 billion) and 1.7 million in Russia (-16000).
The great grandmothers, also the most common, were the parents, the children were the grandnursed ones (17 million).
The son and sister of the deceased family can be found on the left; each has a separate inheritance; but the father and mother are each part of the family tree and will continue to be linked for several generations. There are 4,711 grandparents (7,095 in Italy, 595 in China) and 3,713 great grandnies (4,862 in Switzerland, 790 in Finland). Of course, many grandchildren are still very small. For example, the great grandfather in Greece was a very small baby. The great grandmother in the Netherlands is an adult, but when the child is born the grandmother is still very small.
The descendant of the deceased family can be found on the top but is not associated with the offspring as there was a lot of overlap between the two trees. A grandnurse of an ancestor who went to Rome is an ancestor of an ancestor of another, as some of their genes relate to the descendants of Rome’s founder. A relative of Rome’s founder is probably the father of modern life and therefore the relative of ancestors of that late ancestor is usually the descendant of the ancestor who became the next general.
Most people are generally very familiar with how an ancestor with one gene (Gen 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, and 5) is related to the ancestor who remains with it all the time, which is quite rare for non-genes. For example if a relative becomes extinct after his parents’ death and you are his father, you can be an ancestor of his ancestor, but there is only one gene and the relative will always be related to him. So you are unlikely to find the descendant of such a descendant.
An inherited gene does not have to share any genetic material with you, but that does not
After many years of work, Darwin finally came to a conclusion, one which would not only push forward human understanding, but one which was going to shake the foundation of religion. Darwin was able to describe all species of flora and fauna through a process he called natural selection. Natural selection occurred when the environment in which a certain species had to survive changes and therefore the species must change as well. As changes occurred those