So Socratic dialectic did not end up with a blend of two ideas, but rather a way of either dismissing one idea as a candidate
for an ultimate truth or, indeed, a way of identifying an idea that might be an ultimate truth.
The French artist pulls from his studies in philosophy and epistemology to create swirling abstract paintings and mixed - media sculptures assembled from found materials that touch on the basis of knowledge and rationality in the search
for ultimate truth.
But brain chemistry can also be responsible for wreaking havoc on our lives when we mistake the intensity of our feelings
for ultimate truth.
History tells us that we will gain from the search
for ultimate truth — just not what we expected, says MacGregor Campbell
Their is a quest planted in all humans to search
for the ultimate truth.
But since the 1960s a quite different project, focusing attention again on the classical quest
for ultimate truth in the midst of contemporary, post-Enlightenment culture, has been developing as...
Considering evidence and observation are the ways in which we learn things to be true in the real world, I find it ironical that
for the ultimate truth we are to ask no questions, observe no evidence and make only an emotional connection.
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Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific
truth regarding
ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers
for public policy.
But
Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God»
for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's
ultimate objective.
It may not lead me to saviours, or
ultimate truths, but it still works
for me.
Atheists have made up their mind regarding supernatural,
ultimate «
Truth», but the search for proximate truth is cease
Truth», but the search
for proximate
truth is cease
truth is ceaseless.
There is
ultimate truth, and if our lives are not ordered to that truth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intel
truth, and if our lives are not ordered to that
truth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intel
truth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in
truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intel
truth: «
Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intel
Truth must consequently be the
ultimate end of the whole universe...
for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the
ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intellect.
’25 Bloch believed that «the
ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that
truth does not exist
for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless
truth «contains initiative
for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.
For I suppress much of my actual
truth, I do not want to admit it; I am perhaps in an
ultimate attitude of protest without noticing it; despite all my talk about the love of one's neighbour I may even be the greatest egoist without realizing it.
For Origen, the
truth embedded in the «semblance of history» is the teaching that God is the
ultimate source of everything that exists.
Education
for democracy, therefore, should encourage the habit of sustained inquiry and the arts of sincere persuasion, and above all should confirm and celebrate faith in the priority and
ultimate givenness of
truth and goodness, in which the moral enterprise is grounded.
For whatever the proximate and historical sources of that
truth may have been, its
ultimate source is God, the same God whom Jesus called Father; else the confession of the oneness of God is empty.
From the poor [we] receive in a way hardly expected new eyes
for seeing the
ultimate truth of things and new energies
for exploring unknown and dangerous paths.
The
ultimate hope
for man is that the
truth will be known:
It apprehends it in the way appropriate to it — that is, it investigates the possibility and necessity of it in the strict sense, and leaves it
for faith to affirm in action this possibility as the
ultimate truth.
Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the
truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the
ultimate criterion
for judging the gospel.
The theologian describes that constancy by saying that God is the
ultimate source of all
truth and God is one: He is the same yesterday, today and
for ever.
The
ultimate truth and hope of the Church, God and his Christ, will be expressed anew as though what in fact has always been preached were really understood
for the first time.
It can't get to the
truth because it originates from inside of us, and the gap between us and the
ultimate and eternal is far too great
for us to surmount.
For Muslims, the Qur» an is
ultimate truth.
What we do argue is that the human search
for knowledge of the
ultimate metaphysical
truths, that is,
for the reality on which all things depend
for their being, and the Christian attempt to clarify what we have found disclosed to us in Christ, are two complementary sides of the same story, the story of God's self - disclosure to the mind of man.
«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the
ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost
truth about himself...
For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (4
For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God
for man's use» (4
for man's use» (41).
They will know that whatever may be the real and
ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that
truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»
Temporary meaning in life is insufficient,
for our accomplishments die with the death of the universe — there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God - What are these eternal, unchanging
truths that you refer to?
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the
ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic
truth that man sees himself as hungering
for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»
For that content represents immanence as the
ultimate truth about the universe.
Be does not intend to channel universal movement by means of universal concepts and categories (quantity, quality) into the form of various kinds of movement (local motion, change) or various patterns of movement (
for instance, circular motion), with the
ultimate aim of utilizing the constant diversity of these kinds and patterns of movement, and hence the essence of identity, to make a case
for the
truth of a timeless and imperishable being belonging to things.
It requires also that one resign oneself to an
ultimate irrationalism:
For the one reality that naturalism can never logically encompass is the very existence of nature (nature being, by definition, that which already exists); it is a philosophy, therefore, surrounded, permeated, and exceeded by a
truth that is always already super naturam, and yet a philosophy that one can not seriously entertain except by scrupulously refusing to recognize this.
An
ultimate truth of Christianity is the nonviolence taught by Jesus, by word and example, and this precludes murder or paying
for murder.
The dichotomy between word and image and between
truth and reality is a temporary effect of the Fall, and contrary to God's
ultimate purpose
for humankind.
Faced with the
ultimate question of where the ordered energies of the universe and ordering laws of science themselves come from, many atheist materialists simply abdicate the search
for truth and say that there is no reason.
God says in His Word, your either
for Him or against Him, their is no middle ground, and to say that the Bible is not Gods Word, or to say that God's Word is not
ultimate truth or is with error is to say God is with error, and that my friend is not the spirit of God in you that leading you to that conclusion.
If religion is concerned with
ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications
for the whole of life, private and public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.
We rightly call the Pope not king or president, but Holy Father, because we recognise in him the care that the Good Shepherd has
for his family the Church;
for the Pope is the
ultimate witness of Christ's undying love and his eternal
truth.
The Church considers that her most important mission in today's culture is to keep alive the search
for truth, and consequently
for God; to bring people to look beyond penultimate realities and to seek those that are
ultimate.
This tendency to look
for fixed meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine revelation,
ultimate moral norms, the
truth, is finally the expression of our own insecurity with human relativity and a symbol of our desperate need
for security.
We may accept the writings of Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Barth — and indeed, the Bible itself — as the expressions of limited human beings attempting to articulate
for their own time and in their own terms their experience of
ultimate truth.
All, in one way or another, devote lives to the search
for what I have called the «being values,» the
ultimate values which... can not be reduced to anything more
ultimate... including the
truth and beauty and goodness of the ancients.5
For Heidegger, the last metaphysician was Nietzsche because in Nietzsche's thought the will to power was elevated to a position of
ultimate truth; it became the principle of principles.
The answers determine which religion or religions, if any, provide the
ultimate and more inclusive framework
for the
truths in others.
The main shared convictions are: (i) that science should serve the cause of progress and of humanity, in the whole sense of these two terms; (ii) that the human destiny in the universe is the most important quest, and to clarify this point is the
ultimate goal not only of religion, but also of science, in their unending search
for truth.
To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search
for... the
ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective
truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.
You will receive feedback from me that empowers you to fully embody the Deeper
Truth of Who You Are, which is the
ultimate foundation
for joy, possibility and emotional freedom.
Unfortunately, the
truth of the matter is that quitting achieves nothing while failing demonstrates a continual desire to succeed that allows
for more growth and
ultimate success.