Sentences with phrase «deficient of all actuality»

This of course would correspond to the primordial Spirit, innocent and deficient of all actuality and experience.

«28 The self - identity of Hegel's Spirit was lost when Spirit, originally primordial and deficient of actuality, decided to unfold itself for a world, and, according to the laws of the dialectic, could never return to its original state of self - identity.

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The former is an abstraction, deficient in actuality and therefore incapable of being an effective agency, but it contains the ordering toward intensity that will be reflected in the initial aim.

God is deficient in concrete actuality, as Whitehead said, because every time the adjusting of abstract possibilities to concrete events butts up against complete definiteness, the existence that makes the final decision shifts from God to the presently emerging creatures.

The generally declining trust in the effectiveness of philosophy is thus not to be traced back to deficient versatility in handling available elements of theory, but to the more or less dull consciousness that philosophy works with insinuations of «actuality,» which — although they are not confronted with a plainly superior, clear alternative — are no longer able to be convincing.