Media is, in fact, supposed to be society's
synteresis, empowering the collective conscience of communities with knowledge to judge the right from the wrong by offering perspective, objectivity and a frame of reference in a monomaniac world marred by turmoil, prejudice and tunnel vision.
I rub a ball of beeswax between my hands to remember that hope is not byproduct or waste, but deep
synteresis, new words springing from raw soil after rain.
[...] This can happen unless one's prudent synteresis reins in it.
And shortly afterwards a Fox came up to him and said: 'Ah, I knew you by your voice.' (43) Misunderstanding success within society as the true aim of one's efforts, just as mistaking vain glory for the measure of one's autonomy, is not only the sign of the loss of metis and synteresis, but it also ultimately is the true mark of foolishness.
Like Ames, Hale elsewhere labels the acts of conscience as
synteresis (general principle), syneidesis (minor premise), epicrisis (concluding judgment).
He came to the conclusion that the task of a man of letters (he never considered himself anything else) is to write (or to learn to write, throughout the course of his life) his own life." In a peculiar interlude, tyrannized by pleonasm, Albioni tries also to stammer out something about "a religion of listening"; there is also, however, a direct quotation from Dalgarno that doesn't seem unworthy of its commentator: "I am at once prey to synteresis and the confessional." Couches, at the time, as has been said, were still no more than an innocuous Viennese comfort.
[...] I am at once prey to synteresis and the confessional.
Radically departing from the ancient and medieval conviction that humans possesses a
synteresis theobgia, a spark of the divine from which a jumpstart of grace can initiate the pilgrim toward the heavenly journey, Luther affirms that it is God's grace and love which properly order us to God.
In a similar vein, the seventeenth-century Protestant casuist William Ames observes that the operation of conscience is tripartite, or syllogistic: "That which doth dictate or giue the proposition is called
Synteresis, by the Schoolmen Synderesis.
It is called a
synteresis, and that designates both a connection [with God] and an aversion [from all that is not God].