Sentences with phrase «express ultimate value»

We are so conditioned to think of value in moral or ethical terms that we may be bewildered by any attempt to express ultimate value in terms of criteria of beauty.6

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The passage seems to say that the ultimate metaphysical reality that underlies and expresses itself in every concrete occurrence of actuality or value «envisages» possibilities both in pure abstraction and in their relevance for actual entities, as well as «envisaging» the actual entities themselves.

Whether it is expressed in religious terms or not, the meaning of life, values, destiny — ultimates — are matters of faith and therefore are religious concerns.

As the Dalai Lama suggests, truly to appreciate an organism in its intrinsic value is to recognize that it is important on its own terms and for its own sake, regardless of what metaphysical substances it may or may not express, and regardless of its ultimate origins, divine or otherwise.

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.

They expressed views ranging from Platonic claims about the ultimate reality of eternally perfect Forms (Ideas), including the Idea of the Good, to the claims of Heraclitus that change is so common that «one can not even step into the same river twice» and of Epicurus, the hedonist, that intrinsic value consists in momentary, subjective, pleasant feeling.