Sentences with phrase «essential nature of reality»

It could be that no explanation of these questions is possible, that this is just the essential nature of reality.

Not exact matches

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

These two traits of reality, self - nature and relative making - a-difference, are constituted by the essential and conditional features harmonized in determinateness.

As Person explains, Kirk's stories tend to focus upon either «the reality of evil... and the nature of justice through violent retribution» or «the essential mystery of time and eternity.»

St. Thomas described the philosophy of nature as the intelligible essential knowledge of ens mobile (being capable of motion, i.e. change) and modern science as empirical accidental knowledge of physical reality.

Even Albert Camus insisted that it would be dishonest of us to deny that a longing for clarity and lucidity about the nature of reality is an essential part of our existence.

In terms of such process thinking (about which I have written in Process Thought and Christian Faith, Macmillan, 1968), God is not thought to be simply the absolute, self - existent, unconditioned reality; there is a sense in which these terms are applicable as adverbs qualifying God's essential nature — but that essential nature is God's concrete love, his unfailing relationship with the world, his self - giving and willingness to receive from that world, his openness to «affects» from the world and from what goes on in it.

This principle flows from the reality of the human person, an autonomous creature whose essential nature consists in a capacity for reflection and choice.

Maintaining that the infinite vastness of the horizon sparks an awareness of perfection in the human mind that, although unseen and immaterial, is ultimately the essential and pervasive character of reality, Martin intended to recreate this same quiet contemplation of nature in her canvases.

«The essential reality of nature is not separating, self - contained, and complete in itself.

This exhibition brings to a close a series of three exhibitions that have explored the nature of self, society, and reality — themes that have drawn upon MMoCA's permanent collection, and which collectively help map out the essential character of modern and contemporary art.

Maintaining that the infinite vastness of the horizon sparks an awareness of perfection in the human mind that, although unseen and immaterial, is ultimately the essential and pervasive character of reality, she sought to recreate this same contemplative stillness of Nature in her canvases.