Sentences with phrase «abstract eternal principles»

But these truths aren't abstract eternal principles.

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Since abstract principles or rules (eternal objects) have no causal efficacy in themselves for Whitehead, they would require some actual entity to envision and to incarnate them.

Thus there is a polarity in this concept of God: he is both abstract and concrete; he is both «eternal» and «everlasting»; he is both himself and yet endlessly related; he is both transcendent and immanent; he is both the chief principle of explanation and yet participant, working with, and influenced by, all that is to be explained.

Using these as an explanation would only risk doing what John Dewey urged us to renounce — the kind of pseudo-explanation that «only abstracts some aspect of the existing course of events in order to reduplicate it as a petrified eternal principle by which to explain the very changes of which it is the formalization» (4:11).