Sentences with phrase «as ultimate end»

Perhaps the activity of doing curiosity together in an intimate, thoughtful way is more important than understanding as the ultimate end goal.

In order to justify his acceptance of a utilitarian moral theory, Hartshorne must also face the question why a certain kind of experience should be acknowledged as the ultimate end of human action.

In this principle, Mill recognizes happiness as the ultimate end or goal of action and the criterion of rightness.

Alien to this are the notions of the intrinsic worth and dignity of the human person, and of destination not just as endpoint but as ultimate end.

Trust in the work of human hands — any kind of work — is iniquitous when that work is conceived as itself the ultimate end.

He called for disciples, followers who would deny themselves and pursue God's will as the ultimate end.

Not exact matches

Uncertainty shock = lower US GDP estimates; markets will price in EU fragmentation; Fed likely to pass in Dec; ultimate growth impact of Trump will depend on whether his protectionism or Keynesianism triumphs; either way Trump will boost inflation / stagflation expectations as electorates say end wage deflation via immigration controls, trade protectionism, fiscal spending.

In the end, I consider leaving my big - city lifestyle behind one of the best decisions I've ever made: Not only did it finally put me in the same city as the man I love, but it proved to us that we make a great team — and it's moving us closer to our ultimate goal: permanent financial stability.

Because if you acquire C corporation stock before the end of the year, and your business qualifies as a qualified small business under Section 1202 (in general, less than $ 50M in gross assets and not a service business), you may escape tax entirely on your ultimate sale of the stock.

Moreover, as William Beardslee insists, the story form tells the individual «where he has come from and where he is going,» since «by creating its own ordered world, wherein through struggle and action an end is achieved, the story expresses faith in the ultimate reality of order and life.

By such rational evidence we are instructed in the Qur» an as to the ultimate end toward which the universe is moving, the final destruction which awaits all created things.

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

We are left asking questions in a process of interrogation that is partly, though not entirely, self - interrogation, to which we see no easy end; but this may be as it is because the mysteries that set our inquiring in motion have their authority over us, thus continually to disturb our minds, only because they do touch what is ultimate, which is at once within and yet wholly beyond our comprehension.

In consequence one is the less disposed to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans - humanity at the ultimate heart of things.

Earlier Christians could greet the world as the creation, as a contingent realm deriving its ultimate meaning and reality from a transcendent Creator, even though the primitive Christians looked upon the world as the old creation, an Old Aeon that even now is coming to an end.

So far as there is conscious determination of actions, the attainment of this conformity is an ultimate premise by reference to which our choice of immediate ends is criticized and swayed.

Readers familiar with Max Weber's famous essay «Politics as a Vocation,» which calls for an ethic that falls between a romantic «ethics of ultimate ends» and a worldly «ethics of responsibility,» will recognize affinities between that classic text and Küng's project.

And that theology is grounded in the death of God — not simply as the historical end of Christendom, but rather as the ultimate ground of Buddhism and Christianity alike.

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

When we know that the ultimate end of man is in the very life of God, we can view the entire universe and all its laws, from the symmetry of the elements to the Incarnation of Christ, as part of one evolutionary Providence or Divine Wisdom.

If war in general is to be seen as sinful because it risks the triumph of chaos over shalom, then nuclear war must be the ultimate sin — representing the absolute triumph of chaos and the end of all possibility for wholeness and well - being.

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.

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

It seems entirely fitting that, in carrying out its other responsibility of expressing effectively the meaning of ultimate reality for us, as distinct from describing metaphysically the structure of ultimate reality in itself, philosophy should in its own way make use of the same vivid symbols that religion and theology employ to this end.

To grasp the ultimate meaning of civil discourse we need also to posit One who stands as Partner within the dialogue and also beyond it: an Interlocutor now and at the end of time.

If you do nt want to salvation, then accept your fate of eternal hellfire because that is the ultimate end to all men who refuse Christ as their savior.

But as Novak rightly points out, «after this concession (and despite Grotius» disclaimer of any atheism on his part), it is not too difficult to understand how Kant saw theology as having validity only when it is made to serve the ultimate ends of ethics.»

Hanging on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the higher totalities could only be conceived as «societies» of such «entities.»

If it is true, as I suggest, that salvation lies in the direction of an Earth organically in-folded upon itself, it is then surely evident that, though a reciprocal mechanism of action and reaction, the vision and prevision of this ultimate end, this outcome of History and of Life, may be made to play an essential part in the building of the future, if only by creating the atmosphere, the psychic field of attraction, without which it will be impossible for Humanity to continue to converge upon itself.

«In a sense, all explanation must end in an ultimate arbitrariness» (Whitehead, Science 92), whether it is the givenness of Being, or the givenness of God and of his decisions, or the givenness of creativity: all explanation must come to an end, as Wittgenstein says.

13 Kingsley Davis says it more succinctly yet: «As between two different groups holding an entirely different set of common - ultimate ends, there is no recourse.

In general, the exponents of process theology of the Whitehead school stop short of affirming an ultimate end of the world process, while Teilhard de Chardin found it in the Omega Point with Christ as the goal of the evolutionary process.

On these terms, salvation (the Christian end) may differ not only from conditions humans generally regard as evil or destructive but also from those that specific religious traditions regard as most desirable and ultimate.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

What Blake could envision as the New Jerusalem, or Hegel could know as the advent of Absolute Spirit, or Nietzsche could envision as Eternal Recurrence, is the consequence of the end of history, but an ending realized only through the death of God, which each could know not only as the most ultimate ending in our history, but also as that ending which made possible and calls forth the most absolute beginning.

This led to the concept of the sustainability journey being discussed further, as the group considered how you recognise commitment to meet the «high bar» and the journey producers are taking; reinforcing the fact that attaining a standard or holding a label is not the end result — sustainability is the ultimate goal.

I ended up using the Toll House Ultimates as they are premeasured and delicious, then Breyer's French Vanilla Ice cream.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

As soon as AOB recognises this then they bury their heads and claim Wenger has ultimate say on everything... Which is then disproven by Gazidis recent changes and how Wenger is losing power and articles like this one crop up about his reign coming to an end by Gazidis desigAs soon as AOB recognises this then they bury their heads and claim Wenger has ultimate say on everything... Which is then disproven by Gazidis recent changes and how Wenger is losing power and articles like this one crop up about his reign coming to an end by Gazidis desigas AOB recognises this then they bury their heads and claim Wenger has ultimate say on everything... Which is then disproven by Gazidis recent changes and how Wenger is losing power and articles like this one crop up about his reign coming to an end by Gazidis design.

By the end of a long day of critique, her «protective cloak» was at best in tatters, and perhaps that's the ultimate fate of most attempts for a media figure to live aggressively as a character rather than an honest person.

Every nation is technically exempt from international law as there is no world government which has ultimate sovereignty over the nations; international laws are treaties, and at the end of the day the nations are sovereign and can withdraw or ignore them at will.

What started as wilful distraction is ending up as the ultimate political blackmail.

The ultimate culmination would be the English civil war (1642 - 1651, though there were some shaping events after the war), which effectively ended the monarchy as a body with any power.

Michael Gove's dreams of power ended in disaster as he paid the ultimate price for knifing Boris Johnson out of the Tory leadership race

«At present, our ancestral town of Birnin Gwari is encircled by bloodthirsty gangs moving freely from one end of the forest to the other across Jenni, Zamfara and Niger states with Birnin Gwari town as the ultimate target if proactive and pragmatic approach to quelling the menace urgently.

Hmmm... seems to have gone the same way as the Reich that would last a 1000 years and Marx's notion of Communism's ultimate victory as captured in the phrase the «end of history.»

At the end of that book he famously used God as a metaphor for the laws of nature: «If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of reason — for then we should know the mind of God.»

The speed of light is the ultimate limit on travel in the universe, and the basis for Einstein's special theory of relativity, so if the finding stands up to scrutiny, does it spell the end for physics as we know it?

After all, if the ultimate goal of losing fat is to maintain a calorie deficit over time by consistently burning more calories than you consume, how could a calorie - burning tool such as cardio end up working against you?