Sentences with phrase «essence of all»

The essence of life is the teleological introduction of novelty, with some conformation of objectives.

At the very essence of a utopia is the idea of progressive movement toward a not - yet - achieved perfection.

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

The pain belongs to the essence of God.

Based on his long collaboration with Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger was able to capture the essence of his friend's theological aesthetics in this single, lapidary line: «Being overcome by the beauty of Christ is a more real, more profound knowledge than mere rational deduction.»

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

For this reason Holloway frequently defines the essence of the priest as the one who presides and has power over the Body and Blood of the Lord.

In the hysteria that followed this offer, some urged that the university take the money and run; others cried that the university was all about sports and that the former nickname was the essence of the university.

It may come down to how highly valued New Testament descriptions are, because it is here the very essence of Christianity was originally defined, and still is.

But it is the essence of!

A slogan inscribed on a sign in the Solovki gulag was a simple but exact expression of the essence of utopia: «With an iron hand we will drive humanity to happiness!»

Calvinism declares that it is the essence of the REFORMATION and yet both Calvin and its modern promoters rely heavily on Augustine who is also considered one of the greatest doctors in Catholic tradition.

If we accept this premise, the beginning of the modern era marked a watershed, a radical change, for the two Europes in both the essence of the continent and its geographic outlines.

Taking refuge in God is the essence of heaven.

No single moment is ever going to capture the essence of a human being.

The value of human dignity, which takes precedence over all political action and all political decision - making, refers to the Creator: Only He can establish values that are grounded in the essence of humankind and are inviolable.

It is not an existent, but is the ground or essence of all existents.

A prehension likewise is «a prehensive occasion; and a prehensive occasion is the most concrete finite entity, conceived as what it is in itself and for itself, and not from its aspect, in the essence of another such occasion» (SMW 104f).

The discussion about evangelicalism here at this blog for the last few days has been interesting, though I admit to skim - reading many of the posts as I succumbed to that Eyes Glazing Over feeling that I get whenever the essence of evangelicalism is discussed.

Instead, it is transcendent in that it is beyond finite things and the essence of finite things.

The new absolute, brahman, was described as spiritual and indubitable like the essence of the self — atman.

IV)- The search for the self (atman) became confused with the search for the essence of the cosmos conceived personally as atman or purusha.

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.

There is a further objection to the appeal to one's own privileged and direct access to the essence of experience as encountered immediately and from within.

An awareness of this fact and of the limitations it entails is itself a condition of the credibility of any system of ideas, and that may finally be so because time belongs to the essence of truth and of reality itself.

The prospect of discerning an essence of experience in the bewildering mass of disparate things termed experience seems dismayingly remote by contrast with the direct access to the essence of experience which an intuitive and immediate grasp of one's experience would seem to offer.

If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

Not so clear is whether Hartshorne takes his dialectic to explicate some current use of the term «experience», or whether he takes himself to be constructing a new sense — a sense that will capture for the first time the true essence of experience (cf. CSPM 33,60, 81, 90,92, 105, 154,155,231,282,288; also, e.g., MVG 19).

The first 107 pages will give you to essence of his research, and it is a godsend.

I have tried to show that, even if one can successfully carry the burden of showing some legitimate sense in which one might speak of the essence of experience, one can not know or say (in any philosophically relevant way) what that essence is merely through some privileged intuitive grasp of it.

He attempts to discover which of the cases under comparison might be taken to exhibit more clearly the essence of experience, and then moves to state it in a form sufficiently neutral to apply to the other cases as well.

Sometimes the wound is apparently random and meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of God, which is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.

The ultimate weakness of the earlier appeal to some immediate and privileged intuition of the essence of experience was precisely its inability to provide such a determination.

In the case at hand, some process thinkers seek a direct route to the essence of experience by exploiting the unique promise of a view from the inside.

But, while we herald her accomplishments, we can not neglect that at the essence of the work was an unyielding belief in her faith.

This is something I have been thinking about for a long time and you really captured the essence of the subject.

It changes the very essence of the institution.

That title captures the essence of my last point.

If I am presented with claims that the variety of uses of «experience» does not and could not reveal any normative essence of experience, I can counter that I have a prelinguistic intuition of the essence of my own experience — an intuition against which the adequacy or confusion of language can be authoritatively measured.

The very essence of religion is the fixed belief that all the answers are either already known or the sole and mysterious property of some god who must not be questioned about them.

I have contended further that one can not know what the essence of experience is, or whether temporality is a part of it, merely through generalization of features found in human experience.

Process philosophy, and specifically the process account of God, are sometimes defended by various kinds of appeal to experience and to the essence of experience.

Such individual importance in the components belongs to the essence of Beauty... [It] requires the real occasions of the advancing world each claiming its due share of attention.

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

Love is not one of God's characteristics; rather, it is the very essence of who he is < 3

Insofar as the experience of this self has been made conscious, it fails to provide the process thinker with the desired immediate and authoritative access to the essence of experience.

What sense, if any, could there be in speaking, as process philosophers do, of the essence of experience?

It is the essence of cruelty and religion is where cruelty comes from.

Shall one then enjoy God in worship, when the naked essence of such worship is a selfish self - hypnosis?