Sentences with phrase «university.as finals ended»

Failure is never a final end result unless you make it so.

As MacIntyre puts it in the Phi Sigma Tau Lectures (published in 1990 as First Principles, Final Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues):

Armed with these materials, one could mark out an intelligent path from the earliest materials in the Hebrew Bible to Dante's portrayal of the final end of humanity in the beatific vision.

«The life of the soul is not knowledge, it is love, since love is the act of the supreme faculty, the will, by which man is formally united to the final end of all his strivings — by which man becomes one with God.

The Second Vatican Council teaches, and the continuing Magisterium of successive popes bears witness to, the indissoluble link between God's revelation, our final end and the way we live our lives here and now as us Christians.

The vision of Hegel's Absolute Spirit or Altizer's Christ of radical immanence serves as an ideal aim for the dialectical process; it serves as an impetus for process and lures all process to its final end.

But if we have here only the preparatory stage, the first working - over of the raw material, the significant beginnings but not the final endings of a vast purpose, we can accept life with a much better grace.

These are some of the major biblical texts that led me to change my mind about the purpose of hell and the final end of the wicked.

When the New Testament talks about the final end of the wicked, it uses language that sounds like total extinction.

Yet the Old Testament says much about the final end of the wicked — in principles, pictures, prototypes, and prophecies.

«I am prepared to affirm,» writes Albert Outler, «that the primal origins, the continuing ground and final ends of human life are truly transcendental» (Perkins Journal, Fall i973, p. 30).

Behold what all New England must expect to feel, if we don't cut off and make a final end of those British sons of violence, and of every base Tory among us...

Nonetheless, once God has brought about the realm of created freedom and in that genesis already foreknown its diverse uses and final end, God's express and permissive wills, the will to divine union and the willing of creaturely freedom and its consequences, become one in the history of the world.

When the Old Testament talks about the final end of the wicked, it uses language that sounds like total extinction.

On this metaphysical account, reality as such includes as its primal source and final end a divine individual that is distinguished from all others by virtue of its complete relativity to all actual things as actual and all possible things as possibilities.

For Thomas Aquinas, whose achievement culminates and, in that sense, represents the medieval consensus, law is «an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community» (61 5), and the natural law is «the rational creature's participation» (618) in the divine perfection that is the final end of all things.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

But they also seem to assume that market efficiency is the final end or purpose of a nation's economy, which it certainly is not.

The Preamble of the 1937 Irish Constitution begins: «In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred...»

@ TTTOO:»... if God were not angry at injustice and deception and did not make the final end to violence God would not be worthy of our worship.

But the stage is set for the final end to war, for the definitive outlawing of violence in the settling of disputes between nations — and the opportunity for American pastors to tip the scales of history is tremendous.

The progressive definition of the final end is the efficacious condition for its attainment.

In the third place, the final end, and with it the total unified meaning of the whole of experience, that has played so large a role in apocalyptic symbolization, does not have any place in a process system.

Nussbaum recognizes that prosperity is inadequate as a final end for human beings and as a goal for their education, but she seems to think that democratic citizenship is such an end.

We have no final end, only ends - in - view, which, when attained, provide us with starting - points to seek further growth.

This comment presupposes the strict identity of subject and superject, seeing the subject as the final end.

This category is one expression of the general principle that the one subject is the final end which conditions each component feeling.

Those who believe are simply denying the reality of our existence because they can not grasp what it took to happen and can not fathom that death is a very final end.

Galileo saw a swinging pendulum as an object with inertia, which almost repeats its oscillating motion; his predecessors, inheriting the Aristotelian interest in progress towards — final ends, had seen a pendulum as a constrained falling object, which slowly attains its final state of rest.

In that case God still remains what I have styled the «ultimate dependability» and the «final end.»

Hence, he discards the classical Christian doctrine of God's creation of the world out of nothing and affirms instead that the world, just as God, never had a real beginning and will never have a final end.

In Christliche Anthropozentrik God as the final end of human beings was thought of as the ground and content of future human fulfillment.

We are religious animals, and our final end (as the Westminster Catechism puts it) is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

There is little doubt that there is much in the Biblical witness that supports this doctrine and that the expectation of such a final End to history has been foundational to much of Christian theology throughout the centuries.

In this respect Peirce's agape is inseparable from eros with respect to the goal or final end to be reached by love.

First off, let me say that asking the Big Question, worrying with some consistency about the meaning of life and final ends is only for certain kinds of people.

Yet Nietzsche will not allow a final end to history.

So either God doesn't exist or he's just a jerk who enjoys playing the video game Earth to see what the final ending will be.

Nothing so clearly unveils Hegel's system as an apocalyptic system as does this ending, but such an ultimate ending is unique to apocalypticism, for even if it parallels archaic visions of eternal return, it wholly differs from all primordial vision in knowing an absolute and final ending, an ending which is apocalypse itself.

If, on the other hand, the assertion is construed subjectively, as asserting that God is the eminent subject of experience, because the only individual who experiences all things as their primal source and final end, it, too, can be shown to be true necessarily, although neither literally nor analogically, but only symbolically, on the understanding that it is nevertheless really and not merely apparently true, because its implications can all be interpreted in the concepts and assertions of a transcendental metaphysics, whose application to God, as to anything else, is strictly literal.

No, freedom is by its very nature concerned with the freely achieved final end of the subject as such.

But in the actual order of providence in which we live, our highest good and final end is not a natural good, but a supernatural good.

The statement of a final end can never be a final statement until the whole community confesses it in the moment of its achievement.

Ezekiel, carried to Babylon in the first group of exiles, predicts from there the final end of Jerusalem:

If there is no fixed, final end towards which God and the world are moving, what governs God in his choice of the good?

Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance of a common form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination of the successive subjective aims of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation» of the series by each succeeding term) toward a final end or «satisfaction» of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).

First, Christian tradition understands and explains the universe in terms of a divine plan with respect to its creation and final end.

God's Plan and Divine Intervention will eventually surrender every living beings to bow down to pray for God's Final End!

All process has a final end: the sacred reality as all in all in a wholly concrete form.

Freedom is defined as «permanent self - determination by the good end,» or, in Christian terms, «by the Kingdom of God as final end.»