Sentences with phrase «describes ultimate reality»
In fact, it is very anthropomorphic, that is, it describes ultimate reality in very human terms: father, son, weeping, rejoicing.
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Paul Tillich describes God as that ultimate reality.
1 myself do not see why I should insist that I be able to clearly conceive the ultimate reality, when I can not conceive clearly many theories describing finite reality.
His serene confidence in the powers of philosophical rationality, when disciplined by logical rigor, to discover and describe the major facets of ultimate reality radiates from his speeches and writings.
Language's claim to present inner experience and describe how reality is corresponds to our desire for some ultimate «word» or «reality» in which to ground all experience.
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.
In describing this dichotomy, Walsch says that he is drawing on an «eastern» mystical definition of God as the «No - thing» kind a «western» practical definition of God as ultimate reality.
The humanist apparently does not experience the goodness of God / ultimate reality in the self - authenticating way that Edward Schillebeeckx, for example, describes in «Non-religious Theism and Belief in God.»
Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.
(ii) In Process and Reality, Whitehead maintained that the ultimate constituents of the universe are actual entities (also called «actual occasions») each of which possesses two-fold power of the sort described by Griffin.
One finally arrives at an ultimate unit of reality — an electron, for example — which can then be described abstractly in terms of locus, function, quality and quantity, etc..
We have all heard ultimate reality described as a dazzling light — the motif is in Shelley, it forms the centerpiece of the Tibetan Buddhist Book of the Dead, indeed it is well - nigh universal.
One Berkeley evening in 1990, while my friend Bill Poirier and I were sitting around speculating about the ultimate nature of reality, I suddenly had an idea: Our reality isn't just described by mathematics — it is mathematics, in a very specific sense.
Robyn Williams of the ABC science unit has even speculated on the possible use of virtual reality for sexual encounters, describing it as the ultimate in safe sex.
My first doctor once described this part as «birth is your ultimate reality,» and while I don't like much else about him, this quote has always seemed appropriate.