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noun A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
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The concept of kairos is a major component in all my novels thus far - love the way you have applied it to conventions, which I have not attended for several years now due to time constraints, mostly.
I do not think, however, that Augustine thinks of this as a binary – rather, time as God experiences it is with the full meaning of the word kairos -- it is time in its fullness, literally, the right time: “In the eternal nothing is transient, but the whole is present” (Confessions 228).
I do not think, however, that Augustine thinks of this as a binary – rather, time as God experiences it is with the full meaning of the word kairos -- it is time in its fullness, literally, the right time: “In the eternal nothing is transient, but the whole is present” (Confessions 228).
In the same way that through perspective drawing two dimensions can give us the impression of three, what the Greeks called kairos is simply a chronos -bound impression of the fuller existence of time beyond our current ability to perceive.
Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos-assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos -- assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos -- assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
I saw this word in "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery(translated from the French by Alison Anderson). The word seems to be referring to the right time or the opportune moment.
estarianna commented on the word kairos
I saw this word in "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery(translated from the French by Alison Anderson). The word seems to be referring to the right time or the opportune moment.
April 5, 2009
tometoots commented on the word kairos
A Greek concept that means " the right moment."
July 17, 2009