Sentences with phrase «essence of our existence as»

Going toward an ever unfolding center, these works reflect the very essence of our existence as fluid and intangible, and are about the notion of presence.

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to claim that is the essence of your belief (and it is a belief) about the nature of existence & live as though there is actually some subjective purpose... it's simply existential schizophrenia.

Aristotle originally describes knowledge as a grasp of cause and essence: to know a thing, we must know the four causes of its existence and the essential genus and difference of its species.

The fact that First Things published a long article on my book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Existence is an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» March).

As Przywara writes in the preface to the first edition of his great book (1932), «I sought a formula that would do justice to the way the question of essence and existence appears in Thomas himself.»

To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

Philosophically this may be stated as the fact that the essence of finite entities does not imply their existence.

Since all that exists are comings - to - be, there can be no (essence of) existence between satisfactions as initial data and their objectification (s) in another as its datum.

Even in the memory being erased, the great forming people and moments of life, great swaths of the essence of the remaining, as you say, formed by suffering, erased from existence.

The realm of essence is the home of an eternal infinity of qualities and forms which the flux of physical existence (the realm of matter) may or may not actualize from time to time as the character of one of its phases (or which spirit may or may not conceive or imagine from time to time) but there is no dynamism in the realm of essence to determine which shall thus enter the concrete world (see RB 385 - 386).

As for truth, Santayana speaks of this as subsisting, holding that it has an intermediate status between pure being and existence as that segment of the realm of essence which is distinguished from the rest by its role as a description of what existAs for truth, Santayana speaks of this as subsisting, holding that it has an intermediate status between pure being and existence as that segment of the realm of essence which is distinguished from the rest by its role as a description of what existas subsisting, holding that it has an intermediate status between pure being and existence as that segment of the realm of essence which is distinguished from the rest by its role as a description of what existas that segment of the realm of essence which is distinguished from the rest by its role as a description of what existas a description of what exists.

One's subjective experience is not something others can observe, and yet it is constantly occurring as the very essence of one's process of existence.

Moments of spirit (i.e., total states of consciousness) are, for him, like natural moments inasmuch as they are fundamental units of existence in which essences are actualized in an intensive fashion.

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

Therefore, AEC will take actions against those who for personal reasons and other ambitions contrary to the teachings of the Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ, distort the essence of his existence and throw an infamous discredit on people of God, by identifying themselves as Anti-Balaka militia or Séléka rebels.

Not only is it separate from nature, but it is also a higher form of existence insofar as it corresponds to its concept, that is, it is able to realize its essence, something nature is in principle incapable of doing.

In an article nearly forty years ago Hartshorne spoke of the (seeming) paradox that every determinate character, as an essence, «involves its existence,» though that existence is contingent (see SDE 142).

Ockham rejected the real existence of a human nature because he had concluded that one can only know particular individuals and that universals that can be applied to multiple individuals, such as human nature, or the essence of a dog or a tree, or properties such as white or black, square or round were only names that we create in our mind.

act as a distinct causal agent upon the parts which constitute him and the cosmos.48 Moreover, panentheism includes the notion that God's abstract essence or eternal existence is logically independent of, and hence distinguishable from, every particular world.49

10 In On the Power of God (Quaestiones disputatae de potentia, 1266), he argued that God's existence and essence are identical, 11 wherefore there can be no admixture in God of both action and potentiality.12 Equally, as pure act, God can not be «composite» but must be «utterly simple.»

If possibility and actuality could be united to become necessity, they would become an absolutely different essence, which is not a kind of change; and in becoming necessity or the necessary, they would become that which alone of all things excludes coming into existence, which is just as impossible as it is self - contradictory.

Technology is, in essence, a mode of human existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that such revealing «reveals the real as standing - reserve.»

No question is here raised as to the true content of this; the question is if one will give assent to the God's having come into existence, by which the God's eternal essence is inflected in the dialectical determinations of coming into existence.

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

«Consequently, since existence is nothing else than an essence constituted in act, just as an actual essence is formally limited by itself, or by its intrinsic principles, so, too, created existence has limitation from its very essence, not as it is a potency in which it is received, but because, in reality, it is nothing else than the very actual essence itself» (On the Essence of Finite Being aessence constituted in act, just as an actual essence is formally limited by itself, or by its intrinsic principles, so, too, created existence has limitation from its very essence, not as it is a potency in which it is received, but because, in reality, it is nothing else than the very actual essence itself» (On the Essence of Finite Being aessence is formally limited by itself, or by its intrinsic principles, so, too, created existence has limitation from its very essence, not as it is a potency in which it is received, but because, in reality, it is nothing else than the very actual essence itself» (On the Essence of Finite Being aessence, not as it is a potency in which it is received, but because, in reality, it is nothing else than the very actual essence itself» (On the Essence of Finite Being aessence itself» (On the Essence of Finite Being aEssence of Finite Being as Such.

Another significant motive for the affirmation of the a priori «Act of Existence» as that which transcends definitive intelligibility was the attempt to handle the difficult fact that scholasticism's approach to such abstract intelligibility of the «essence» prescinds from whether or not that thing actually exists.

At its essence, the whole corpus of Nicola Samorì's work is a profound meditation on time and the fragility of existence: His earliest works appeared to be paintings of X-rays of individuals as if seen in a morgue — e.g. Der Neid, 2005; other works were constructed as if assembled from archeological remnants — e.g. Siliqua, 2007; and more recently, Samorì has turned his attention to re-examining famous artworks from the Western canon, notably the paintings of Spanish seventeenth century master Jusepe Ribera.

Both Untitled # 20 and Untitled # 7 stand as a victorious tribute to the work of an artist who spent her career trying to capture human existence's true essence.

As such, if one's job depended merely upon pointing out that such areas exist, given the existence of researchers who will in essence being doing this work for you, I believe one would have a great deal of job security for quite some time to come.

What I try to focus on is providing a vision for the future and ensuring that we remain loyal to our values as they are the very essence of our existence.

In essence, it states that there needs to be a real, as opposed to theoretical or fanciful, risk and whether the existence of a previous similar accident can be a relevant factor.